republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-246.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSPECTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS.	Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) was intended to create a State-wide and generally applicable standard for citizens’ access to public records and to further the accountability of government to the citizens of this State. To ensure consistency in the processing of requests for public records, and to ensure the goals of FOIA are being realized, this bill amends earlier-enacted provisions in the Delaware Insurance Code and Administrative Procedures Act related to public inspection of State agency documents to incorporate by reference the requirements of the later-enacted FOIA statute.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 246	Delaware SB 246 (151)	bill		enacted	Spiros Mantzavinos William Bush	1	7	2	2022-03-11	2022-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/7412c8e0-1751-4a13-a53f-201620fa5282	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79221	4e4012d1c75f2f359ff8f91171d02f236f5a00653af3a579c25de9054e80979d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 246 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSPECTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS.

Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) was intended to create a State-wide and generally applicable standard for citizens’ access to public records and to further the accountability of government to the citizens of this State. To ensure consistency in the processing of requests for public records, and to ensure the goals of FOIA are being realized, this bill amends earlier-enacted provisions in the Delaware Insurance Code and Administrative Procedures Act related to public inspection of State agency documents to incorporate by reference the requirements of the later-enacted FOIA statute.

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 — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-11 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-23 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-03-31 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-14 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7412c8e0-1751-4a13-a53f-201620fa5282. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).