republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-37.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS.	This Act amends the Delaware Viatical Settlements Act by permanently removing the bond requirements for viatical settlement brokers and updating a reference to "life settlement brokers" by replacing it with "viatical settlement brokers".	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 37	Delaware SB 37 (151)	bill		enacted	Trey Paradee William Bush	1	8	2	2021-01-14	2021-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/a98a6270-f3f7-480d-8a0f-a1f1c84508c1	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48297	6ad2cac10fda71c98dbee44405eeba6be101eec9e9de04b137dda1d8a80ccad9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 37 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS.

This Act amends the Delaware Viatical Settlements Act by permanently removing the bond requirements for viatical settlement brokers and updating a reference to "life settlement brokers" by replacing it with "viatical settlement brokers".

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

• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-14 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-01-26 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-01-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-01-27 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-26 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-04-01 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-06-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a98a6270-f3f7-480d-8a0f-a1f1c84508c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).