republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-35.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LABOR.	Like Senate Bill No. 35, this Act defines specific violations of wage payment and collection laws under Chapter 11 of Title 19 as wage theft, providing specific penalties for these violations, and creates a new criminal offense of wage theft, with a mechanism for the Department of Labor to refer completed investigations to the Department of Justice for prosecution. Clearly defining wage theft protects Delaware workers and Delaware taxpayers from employers who pay their employees “under the table” because this practice results in lost tax revenue to this State and exposes employees to personal risk in the areas of unemployment compensation and workplace injuries. The civil penalties collected for violations that are wage theft must be used for the enforcement of wage payment and collection laws under Chapter 11 of Title 19 and prosecution of the offense of wage theft under § 841D of Title 11.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 35	Delaware SB 35 (151)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski John "Jack" Walsh	2	10	2	2022-06-09	2022-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/18e90c2d-b48d-4dc2-b464-48a41b608e0a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129666	54e57e8ebea4b3dbba106ca8599be7561754a12ff992f643179bb9bb0477cb3b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 35 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LABOR.

Like Senate Bill No. 35, this Act defines specific violations of wage payment and collection laws under Chapter 11 of Title 19 as wage theft, providing specific penalties for these violations, and creates a new criminal offense of wage theft, with a mechanism for the Department of Labor to refer completed investigations to the Department of Justice for prosecution. Clearly defining wage theft protects Delaware workers and Delaware taxpayers from employers who pay their employees “under the table” because this practice results in lost tax revenue to this State and exposes employees to personal risk in the areas of unemployment compensation and workplace injuries. The civil penalties collected for violations that are wage theft must be used for the enforcement of wage payment and collection laws under Chapter 11 of Title 19 and prosecution of the offense of wage theft under § 841D of Title 11.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 35 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 32–9 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 17–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-09 was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 35 and Laid on Table introduction
• 2022-06-09 Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-09 Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2022-06-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 3 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-10 Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-21 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 9 NO passage
• 2022-10-07 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18e90c2d-b48d-4dc2-b464-48a41b608e0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).