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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES. | This bill adds the intentional touching of another person with semen to the definition of sexual contact. By doing so, the act of a person intentionally touching another person with semen without consent becomes the crime of unlawful sexual contact third degree. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 150 | HB 246 | Delaware HB 246 (150) |
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1 | 7 | 2 | 2019-06-21 | 2019-07-23 | openstates | ocd-bill/ba2b9206-188b-4691-9883-898a03b934f2 | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47808 | d852037078218b3e9567a2b3932114be41d191cae60e1b9a8de720b99518e734 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 246 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES.
This bill adds the intentional touching of another person with semen to the definition of sexual contact. By doing so, the act of a person intentionally touching another person with semen without consent becomes the crime of unlawful sexual contact third degree.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
- SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-06-21 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2019-06-25 Re-Assigned to Administration Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2019-06-26 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits
committee-passage - 2019-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
passage - 2019-07-01 Suspension of Rules in Senate
- 2019-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
passage - 2019-07-23 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba2b9206-188b-4691-9883-898a03b934f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).