republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-273.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8, TITLE 9, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.	Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(b)(7). The amendment to Section 102(b)(7) authorizes a provision in the certificate of incorporation to eliminate or limit monetary liability of certain corporate officers for breach of fiduciary duty, but it precludes such elimination or limitation with respect to claims brought by or in the right of the corporation, and for the same types of claims with respect to which exculpation of directors is not permissible.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 273	Delaware SB 273 (151)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Darius J. Brown Krista Griffith Kyle Evans Gay Sean M. Lynn Stephanie L. Hansen William Bush	1	7	2	2022-04-28	2022-07-27	openstates	ocd-bill/5d0682f4-c1ed-447e-b5a9-12bab23f9a86	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109402	ad0835742fcda7c42e08a9ddb98a0df19d97d10c69b5df52d8faa80a75dd26ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 273 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8, TITLE 9, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.

Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(b)(7). The amendment to Section 102(b)(7) authorizes a provision in the certificate of incorporation to eliminate or limit monetary liability of certain corporate officers for breach of fiduciary duty, but it precludes such elimination or limitation with respect to claims brought by or in the right of the corporation, and for the same types of claims with respect to which exculpation of directors is not permissible.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-04-28 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-04 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-05-13 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-14 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2022-07-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d0682f4-c1ed-447e-b5a9-12bab23f9a86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).