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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE FOR NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION."
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description: "This Act implements the procedure for the notice of a proposed amendment to the Delaware Constitution authorized by the amendment to § 1 of Article XVI of the Delaware Constitution proposed by House Bill No. 130 by doing the following:"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 131"
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citation: "Delaware HB 131 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-04-15"
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last_action: "2021-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e31a2ea2-0446-40a3-b081-eae5130a018b"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58576"
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source_hash: "37a43636710198826bf3197c30147da36c8619a4fa23a9491ca7a1a5d26552e4"
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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 HB 131 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE FOR NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION.
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This Act implements the procedure for the notice of a proposed amendment to the Delaware Constitution authorized by the amendment to § 1 of Article XVI of the Delaware Constitution proposed by House Bill No. 130 by doing the following:
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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=58576&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB131)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
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- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-04-15** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-05-14** Suspension of Rules in House
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- **2021-05-18** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2021-05-18** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2021-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2021-09-30** 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/e31a2ea2-0446-40a3-b081-eae5130a018b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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