republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-144.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH, ORDER, AND DECENCY.	This Act modernizes the hate crime statute and consolidates related offenses together with the hate crime statute in the Criminal Code.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 144	Delaware SB 144 (151)	bill		enacted	Eric Morrison Kendra Johnson Marie Pinkney Sarah McBride	3	15	3	2021-05-20	2022-10-21	openstates	ocd-bill/237e6fc7-89be-4c4f-8395-c70b16aa3744	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78756	372d378f87ee67318f28f93a07d03781219a0d0db27fc26219164f8bce4ac810	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 144 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH, ORDER, AND DECENCY.

This Act modernizes the hate crime statute and consolidates related offenses together with the hate crime statute in the Criminal Code.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to SB 144 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to SB 144 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper
• SM — 37–2 (pass) · lower
• SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-20 Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-14 Amendment SA 1 to SB 144 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-15 Amendment SA 1 to SB 144 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO amendment-passage
• 2021-06-15 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO passage
• 2021-06-16 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-28 Amendment HA 1 to SB 144 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-05-17 Tabled in Committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2022-06-22 Amendment HA 2 to SB 144 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-23 Amendment HA 1 to SB 144 - Stricken in House
• 2022-06-23 Amendment HA 2 to SB 144 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-23 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO passage
• 2022-10-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/237e6fc7-89be-4c4f-8395-c70b16aa3744. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).