republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-354.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE’S WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT.	This Act amends Delaware’s Whistleblower Protection Act to preclude an employer from reporting or threatening to report an employee’s citizenship or immigration status or a family members citizenship or immigration status to a federal, state, or local agency, in response to the employee engaging in a protected activity under Delaware’s Whistleblower Act.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 354	Delaware HB 354 (151)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison Laura V. Sturgeon	2	10	2	2022-03-22	2022-10-21	openstates	ocd-bill/827e9855-5054-42b9-96c6-62cf437e35e4	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79257	758c0968291fe8c9205f0f8a74bd4dac9aa3ffb6945853e63b28d151d838bf9d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 354 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE’S WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT.

This Act amends Delaware’s Whistleblower Protection Act to preclude an employer from reporting or threatening to report an employee’s citizenship or immigration status or a family members citizenship or immigration status to a federal, state, or local agency, in response to the employee engaging in a protected activity under Delaware’s Whistleblower Act.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 354 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-22 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-12 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-28 Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-23 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-23 Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-24 Re-Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-10-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/827e9855-5054-42b9-96c6-62cf437e35e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).