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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES."
description: "This bill expands the Employment First Oversight Commission by adding the Director of the Division for the Visually Impaired as a member, the Director of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, and other councils, committees, agencies, organizations and individuals as approved by both the Employment First Oversight Commission and the affected council, committee, agency, organization or individual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 241"
citation: "Delaware HB 241 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Harris B. McDowell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-20"
last_action: "2019-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f42626f-ed85-43e4-8257-6d5fbd7e77b3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47787"
source_hash: "f149bb8084a12cdf591d0f8f139a49ddec006ff4b18ec7ef606b9074cf05022c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware HB 241 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.
This bill expands the Employment First Oversight Commission by adding the Director of the Division for the Visually Impaired as a member, the Director of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, and other councils, committees, agencies, organizations and individuals as approved by both the Employment First Oversight Commission and the affected council, committee, agency, organization or individual.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47787&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB241)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-06-20** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2019-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-09-20** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f42626f-ed85-43e4-8257-6d5fbd7e77b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).