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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ACCESS TO STATE DOCUMENTS."
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description: "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."
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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 295"
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citation: "Delaware SB 295 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "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: "2022-05-11"
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last_action: "2022-09-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c6ac607-c874-4933-abb5-fce2fe151ad8"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109498"
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source_hash: "166c50dda43e5a3a7da642b2e0af98e74c55ba5856769f7f3f418dd220806ffd"
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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 295 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ACCESS TO STATE DOCUMENTS.
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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.
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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=109498&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB295)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-05-11** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-05-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2022-06-02** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-09-09** 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/5c6ac607-c874-4933-abb5-fce2fe151ad8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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