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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "150"
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identifier: "SB 10"
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citation: "Delaware SB 10 (150)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Earl G. Jaques Jr.", "John J. Viola"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-01-15"
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last_action: "2019-08-12"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a64fc319-c9f2-48c0-aad2-ab9e427a94c2"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37092"
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source_hash: "a1990e02d16c8ba06ce560fe59b7691c0a3bdee5542f3c18b9d02e94696dc0be"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 10 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=37092&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB10)
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## Votes
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — primary (person)
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- John J. Viola — primary (person)
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- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
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- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
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- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
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- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-15** Introduced and Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2019-01-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2019-02-28** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2019-08-12** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a64fc319-c9f2-48c0-aad2-ab9e427a94c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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