republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-211.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.	This Act prohibits employers from requesting or requiring that an applicant for employment disclose the applicant’s age, date of birth, or dates of attendance or graduation from an educational institution in an initial application for employment, unless the employer is requesting the information because of a bona fide occupational qualification or to comply with state or federal law.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 211	Delaware SB 211 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Krista Griffith Spiros Mantzavinos	3	11	2	2022-01-11	2022-09-08	openstates	ocd-bill/23a207d5-c85f-40e9-a3d1-6fd07d4dbf1a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79070	5ba14485ccea1a5f0f1f225c0c815c8f6692ba7548580bda3f1eee1edc0c4b28	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 211 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

This Act prohibits employers from requesting or requiring that an applicant for employment disclose the applicant’s age, date of birth, or dates of attendance or graduation from an educational institution in an initial application for employment, unless the employer is requesting the information because of a bona fide occupational qualification or to comply with state or federal law.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 211 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 2 to SB 211 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 34–4 (pass) · lower
• SM — 16–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-19 Amendment SA 1 to SB 211 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-01-26 Amendment SA 2 to SB 211 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-01-27 Amendment SA 1 to SB 211 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2022-01-27 Amendment SA 2 to SB 211 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO amendment-passage
• 2022-01-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO passage
• 2022-02-11 Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-16 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 4 NO 3 ABSENT passage
• 2022-09-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/23a207d5-c85f-40e9-a3d1-6fd07d4dbf1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).