republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-171.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTING INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS FOR REDISTRICTING PURPOSES.	This Act provides additional procedures necessary to ensure that incarcerated individuals who were residents of Delaware immediately before their date of incarceration are counted for reapportionment and redistricting purposes at their last known residence as required by law. Specifically, this Act does the following:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 171	Delaware SB 171 (151)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend David P. Sokola Gerald W. Hocker John L. Mitchell Peter C. Schwartzkopf S. Elizabeth Lockman Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2021-06-04	2021-09-08	openstates	ocd-bill/2d99bfef-708e-4c71-bf31-2188b266ab7a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78828	9cde034691a0dc3f6310daea7670446bf0b240d1e60337c06d0210da395a40e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 171 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTING INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS FOR REDISTRICTING PURPOSES.

This Act provides additional procedures necessary to ensure that incarcerated individuals who were residents of Delaware immediately before their date of incarceration are counted for reapportionment and redistricting purposes at their last known residence as required by law. Specifically, this Act does the following:

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-04 Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2021-06-10 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-06-11 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-09-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d99bfef-708e-4c71-bf31-2188b266ab7a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).