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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC TRUST."
description: "This Act expands the Division of Civil Rights and Public Trusts responsibility to review deadly use of force incidents by law enforcement by adding review of cases involving serious physical injury. It also requires that if the Division issues a public report on the use of force, the report must include the race of the law enforcement officer who used force, the race of the individual on whom force was used, and whether race was a relevant or motivating factor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 148"
citation: "Delaware SB 148 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-05-25"
last_action: "2021-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57c30a24-7c1a-41f2-8790-aa772f08fea9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78767"
source_hash: "33df6834a36cefbd016fbd9e90b90e4a826dafe61f7eb356de740ddcc0ee3df3"
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 148 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC TRUST.
This Act expands the Division of Civil Rights and Public Trusts responsibility to review deadly use of force incidents by law enforcement by adding review of cases involving serious physical injury. It also requires that if the Division issues a public report on the use of force, the report must include the race of the law enforcement officer who used force, the race of the individual on whom force was used, and whether race was a relevant or motivating factor.
## 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=78767&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB148)
## Votes
- SM — **2615** (pass) · lower
- SM — **147** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-05-25** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-11** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-17** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 15 NO `passage`
- **2021-11-08** 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/57c30a24-7c1a-41f2-8790-aa772f08fea9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).