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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT."
description: "This Bill clarifies language allowing for the direct deposit of child support owed and collected by employers from individuals under a support order from the Family Court. In addition, this Bill requires employers who have 50 or more employees to send payments to the Division of Child Support Services by electronic funds transfer and allows employers with less than 50 employees to do the same. Finally, the bill requires payments made via electronic transfer to be made before or at the time the employee is paid."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Delaware HB 81 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-12"
last_action: "2019-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/628bc015-dd0c-4025-9e97-2840b6d1e97c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47189"
source_hash: "7c527a298d33e12154ac46c03cf577d78d0b6f60743d586d7c05520bf4b30d14"
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 81 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT.
This Bill clarifies language allowing for the direct deposit of child support owed and collected by employers from individuals under a support order from the Family Court. In addition, this Bill requires employers who have 50 or more employees to send payments to the Division of Child Support Services by electronic funds transfer and allows employers with less than 50 employees to do the same. Finally, the bill requires payments made via electronic transfer to be made before or at the time the employee is paid.
## 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=47189&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB81)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **190** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-07** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-05-07** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-19** 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/628bc015-dd0c-4025-9e97-2840b6d1e97c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).