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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONSUMER PROTECTION FUND."
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description: "The Consumer Protection Fund covers a substantial portion of the costs and expenses to run the Department of Justice’s Fraud and Consumer Protection Division, which serves all Delawareans, handles hundreds of consumer complaints every year, and is continually taking on more cases on behalf of Delawareans who have been victims of fraud and deceptive business practices. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period of dramatically increased scams against Delaware's most vulnerable populations, including our seniors, the Fraud and Consumer Protection Division has been on the front lines. The Division brings money into the Consumer Protection Fund by investigating and enforcing Delaware’s consumer protection and financial fraud laws, and the amounts obtained, often through settlements, can be large but are unpredictable. Despite a significant expansion of the work and jurisdiction of the Fraud and Consumer Protection Division, the Consumer Protection Fund retention cap has not been increased since 2014. This Act increases the maximum amount of money the Department of Justice can keep in the Consumer Protection Fund at the end of each fiscal year from $3 million to $10 million."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "SB 260"
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citation: "Delaware SB 260 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-04-11"
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last_action: "2022-08-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c08a750-0977-4f6b-b9fe-51bd4c44e4eb"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=99341"
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source_hash: "23987da343a354318384f46b0cfefae53571697847f3e057ee4ef8f217e56856"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 260 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONSUMER PROTECTION FUND.
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The Consumer Protection Fund covers a substantial portion of the costs and expenses to run the Department of Justice’s Fraud and Consumer Protection Division, which serves all Delawareans, handles hundreds of consumer complaints every year, and is continually taking on more cases on behalf of Delawareans who have been victims of fraud and deceptive business practices. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period of dramatically increased scams against Delaware's most vulnerable populations, including our seniors, the Fraud and Consumer Protection Division has been on the front lines. The Division brings money into the Consumer Protection Fund by investigating and enforcing Delaware’s consumer protection and financial fraud laws, and the amounts obtained, often through settlements, can be large but are unpredictable. Despite a significant expansion of the work and jurisdiction of the Fraud and Consumer Protection Division, the Consumer Protection Fund retention cap has not been increased since 2014. This Act increases the maximum amount of money the Department of Justice can keep in the Consumer Protection Fund at the end of each fiscal year from $3 million to $10 million.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=99341&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB260)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-04-11** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-06-09** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
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- **2022-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-08-04** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c08a750-0977-4f6b-b9fe-51bd4c44e4eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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