republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-289.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION.	This Act expands the scope of the sexual extortion law to include: a) compelling or inducing another person to produce a visual depiction of the person or another who is nude or who is engaging in sexual conduct, and b) threatening to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, publish, transmit, or otherwise disseminate a visual depiction of a person who is nude, or who is engaging in sexual conduct.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 289	Delaware SB 289 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Krista Griffith Nicole Poore Valerie Longhurst	1	8	2	2022-05-09	2022-08-19	openstates	ocd-bill/2835bcad-b393-42ca-bb01-b54d0b0fd6bb	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109465	5f48be74debe8afbc87cf3f9bb7843e1e297cda874d544ecc580225c874ca2a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 289 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEXUAL EXTORTION.

This Act expands the scope of the sexual extortion law to include: a) compelling or inducing another person to produce a visual depiction of the person or another who is nude or who is engaging in sexual conduct, and b) threatening to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, publish, transmit, or otherwise disseminate a visual depiction of a person who is nude, or who is engaging in sexual conduct.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-09 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-12 Re-Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-06-02 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-28 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-08-19 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2835bcad-b393-42ca-bb01-b54d0b0fd6bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).