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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF DELMAR RELATING TO THE POLICE OFFICERS' AND FIREFIGHTERS' EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT."
description: "This Act makes clear that the Town of Delmar, Delaware is a public employer for purposes of the Police Officers' and Firefighters' Employment Relations Act, Chapter 16 of Title 19 of the Delaware Code, and Chapter 16 of Title 19 applies to the Town, including in a cooperative agreement between the Town of Delmar, Delaware and the Town of Delmar, Maryland."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 181"
citation: "Delaware SB 181 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "John L. Mitchell", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-06-10"
last_action: "2021-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4375a6bf-2317-4156-bea9-5c7ccdc89108"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78889"
source_hash: "1c58b2e358414ca102547ee7ef8b8c7f3ab027b4ec60f6be72dee8dd0acded52"
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 181 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF DELMAR RELATING TO THE POLICE OFFICERS' AND FIREFIGHTERS' EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT.
This Act makes clear that the Town of Delmar, Delaware is a public employer for purposes of the Police Officers' and Firefighters' Employment Relations Act, Chapter 16 of Title 19 of the Delaware Code, and Chapter 16 of Title 19 applies to the Town, including in a cooperative agreement between the Town of Delmar, Delaware and the Town of Delmar, Maryland.
## 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=78889&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB181)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **200** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **410** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **200** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-10** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-17** Laid On Table in Senate
- **2021-06-22** Lifted From Table in Senate
- **2021-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-22** Reconsidered in Senate
- **2021-06-22** Roll Call Rescinded in Senate
- **2021-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2021-06-23** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-24** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 11 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-07** 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/4375a6bf-2317-4156-bea9-5c7ccdc89108`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).