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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN."
description: "This bill provides a mechanism to grant pension increases to retired State Employees, retired Judges, and retired “New” State police. This bill dedicates a minimum of 2.33% of payroll to be deposited annually to the Post Retirement Fund. This bill also provides for a pension increase as determined by the Board of Pension Trustees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 14"
citation: "Delaware SB 14 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Darius J. Brown", "Michael Ramone", "Sean M. Lynn", "Stephanie T. Bolden", "Stephen Smyk", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-07"
last_action: "2022-10-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07c66071-fdf0-4a34-9bf0-ce4fc647dc9f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79189"
source_hash: "c4b3a54593e92254cfa686161b5164eeaece5f24fd6cf5c4ecd6f326c35b74af"
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 SB 14 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN.
This bill provides a mechanism to grant pension increases to retired State Employees, retired Judges, and retired “New” State police. This bill dedicates a minimum of 2.33% of payroll to be deposited annually to the Post Retirement Fund. This bill also provides for a pension increase as determined by the Board of Pension Trustees.
## 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=79189&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB14)
2. **HA 1 to SS 1 for SB 14** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129878&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
3. **SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 14** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109379&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
4. **SA 3 to SS 1 for SB 14** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129815&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-03-07** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 14, and Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-15** Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-23** Amendment SA 3 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Stricken in Senate
- **2022-06-23** Amendment SA 3 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-26** 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/07c66071-fdf0-4a34-9bf0-ce4fc647dc9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).