republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-478.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT OF PENSIONERS.	This bill increases the annual earnings limit for pensioners in the State Employees’ Pension Plan who return to work in a non-pension creditable position to $40,000 for earnings received beginning in calendar year 2021.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 478	Delaware HB 478 (151)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short Kimberly Williams Michael F. Smith Sarah McBride Timothy D. Dukes	1	7	2	2022-06-21	2022-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7c80c880-af48-4af1-8541-172eefbfd08e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129802	5666bf801c4be75183e4844e3644b1955c4029096e82a117802f12a9cbcf6142	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 478 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT OF PENSIONERS.

This bill increases the annual earnings limit for pensioners in the State Employees’ Pension Plan who return to work in a non-pension creditable position to $40,000 for earnings received beginning in calendar year 2021.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-21 Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 478, and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-23 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-23 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c80c880-af48-4af1-8541-172eefbfd08e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).