republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-10.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION.	This Act is identical to Senate Bill No. 127 from the 149th General Assembly, which was passed by the Senate and reported out of the House Administration Committee. This Act corrects an inadvertent error in Delaware law that has permitted people younger than 18 years of age to vote in final-stage elections. People must be 18 years of age or older to be eligible to vote in a final-stage election such as general elections, special elections, school board elections, and school district referendums. However, people younger than 18 years of age can vote in any preliminary election, such as primary elections, if they will be 18 years of age at the time of the final-stage election.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 10	Delaware SB 10 (150)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Earl G. Jaques Jr. John J. Viola	1	7	2	2019-01-15	2019-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/a64fc319-c9f2-48c0-aad2-ab9e427a94c2	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37092	a1990e02d16c8ba06ce560fe59b7691c0a3bdee5542f3c18b9d02e94696dc0be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 10 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION.

This Act is identical to Senate Bill No. 127 from the 149th General Assembly, which was passed by the Senate and reported out of the House Administration Committee. This Act corrects an inadvertent error in Delaware law that has permitted people younger than 18 years of age to vote in final-stage elections. People must be 18 years of age or older to be eligible to vote in a final-stage election such as general elections, special elections, school board elections, and school district referendums. However, people younger than 18 years of age can vote in any preliminary election, such as primary elections, if they will be 18 years of age at the time of the final-stage election.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
• John J. Viola — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-01-15 Introduced and Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-01-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-02-28 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-08-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a64fc319-c9f2-48c0-aad2-ab9e427a94c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).