republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-295.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ACCESS TO STATE DOCUMENTS.	This Act clarifies that the Attorney General’s right of access under Title 29, Section 2508(b) to the books, papers, records, and other documents of the State does not apply for purposes of discovery in any civil litigation brought by or on the relation of the Attorney General, except for the Department of Justice’s own documents. This Act is intended to ensure that state agencies, departments, boards, officers, instrumentalities, and commissions will have the discovery protections afforded to non-parties in such litigation by applicable rules of civil procedure or state or federal law.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 295	Delaware SB 295 (151)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Krista Griffith Kyle Evans Gay	1	7	2	2022-05-11	2022-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/5c6ac607-c874-4933-abb5-fce2fe151ad8	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109498	166c50dda43e5a3a7da642b2e0af98e74c55ba5856769f7f3f418dd220806ffd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 295 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ACCESS TO STATE DOCUMENTS.

This Act clarifies that the Attorney General’s right of access under Title 29, Section 2508(b) to the books, papers, records, and other documents of the State does not apply for purposes of discovery in any civil litigation brought by or on the relation of the Attorney General, except for the Department of Justice’s own documents. This Act is intended to ensure that state agencies, departments, boards, officers, instrumentalities, and commissions will have the discovery protections afforded to non-parties in such litigation by applicable rules of civil procedure or state or federal law.

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 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-11 Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 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 Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-09-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c6ac607-c874-4933-abb5-fce2fe151ad8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).