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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE’S WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT."
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description: "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."
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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 354"
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citation: "Delaware HB 354 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 10
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-03-22"
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last_action: "2022-10-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/827e9855-5054-42b9-96c6-62cf437e35e4"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79257"
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source_hash: "758c0968291fe8c9205f0f8a74bd4dac9aa3ffb6945853e63b28d151d838bf9d"
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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 354 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE’S WHISTLEBLOWERS PROTECTION ACT.
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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.
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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=79257&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB354)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109386&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — 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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- **2022-03-22** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-12** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-28** Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-06-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-24** Re-Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-10-21** 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/827e9855-5054-42b9-96c6-62cf437e35e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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