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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 15, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS."
description: "This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the “Act”) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 276"
citation: "Delaware SB 276 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Sean M. Lynn", "Stephanie L. Hansen", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-28"
last_action: "2022-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a479949-2a87-4000-b402-fabf173be72c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109405"
source_hash: "728bdb70f59247897a292782950fe0edca82310baaa5b299547fb822935960ba"
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 276 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 15, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS.
This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the “Act”) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act.
## 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=109405&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB276)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **380** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## 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 5 Favorable `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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a479949-2a87-4000-b402-fabf173be72c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).