republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-453.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.	This Act makes necessary updates to Delaware Code provisions codifying procedures related to the General Assembly to bring these provisions into compliance with current practice and to make technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 453	Delaware HB 453 (151)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Daniel B. Short David P. Sokola Gerald W. Hocker John L. Mitchell Peter C. Schwartzkopf S. Elizabeth Lockman Timothy D. Dukes Valerie Longhurst	2	9	2	2022-06-02	2022-10-14	openstates	ocd-bill/4196133b-1f70-412c-8ad1-22cae0206999	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109601	697b07e4c855fe4d61042f539176fb1c33fb344c3f5e46928787c3bb5c101bdd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 453 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

This Act makes necessary updates to Delaware Code provisions codifying procedures related to the General Assembly to bring these provisions into compliance with current practice and to make technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

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 453 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-02 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Amendment HA 1 to HB 453 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-16 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2022-06-21 Amendment HA 1 to HB 453 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-21 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-21 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-10-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4196133b-1f70-412c-8ad1-22cae0206999. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).