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type: "Bill"
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."
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:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 131"
citation: "Delaware HB 131 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-15"
last_action: "2021-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e31a2ea2-0446-40a3-b081-eae5130a018b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58576"
source_hash: "37a43636710198826bf3197c30147da36c8619a4fa23a9491ca7a1a5d26552e4"
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 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.
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:
## 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=58576&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB131)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **400** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-04-15** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-14** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-05-18** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-05-18** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-30** 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/e31a2ea2-0446-40a3-b081-eae5130a018b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).