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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 95, VOLUME 82 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO MARRIAGES. This Act postpones the effective date of Senate Bill No. 67, enacted in 2019. Senate Bill No. 67 was to become effective on January 1, 2020; however, the Clerks of the Peace for all 3 counties have indicated that they intend to postpone implementation of the requirements set out in Senate Bill No. 67. This postponement is in order to allow additional time for engagement with leaders of faith communities and to identify any additional changes to the marriage registry structure or to its implementation or enforcement. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 151 SB 164 Delaware SB 164 (151)
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Delaware SB 164 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 95, VOLUME 82 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO MARRIAGES.

This Act postpones the effective date of Senate Bill No. 67, enacted in 2019. Senate Bill No. 67 was to become effective on January 1, 2020; however, the Clerks of the Peace for all 3 counties have indicated that they intend to postpone implementation of the requirements set out in Senate Bill No. 67. This postponement is in order to allow additional time for engagement with leaders of faith communities and to identify any additional changes to the marriage registry structure or to its implementation or enforcement.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 210 (pass) · upper
  • 2/3 — 410 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
  • Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2021-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-06-08 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
  • 2021-06-09 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2021-06-16 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-06-25 Suspension of Rules in House
  • 2021-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
  • 2021-09-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b189ecf-365d-4944-bea0-0ede1ef7af35. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).