republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-85.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN.	This bill allows the Public Guardian to collect fees for services in accordance with standards to be established by the Guardianship Commission and approved by the Court of Chancery.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 85	Delaware SB 85 (151)	bill		enacted	David Bentz Nicole Poore Sherry Dorsey Walker	1	7	2	2021-03-18	2021-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/e2281da1-8e75-473b-b246-652a4f513dde	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48470	3e5fb4aefa9955781b55f47f733d484b28c4fee991f19df1c801cacf3eb7771a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 85 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN.

This bill allows the Public Guardian to collect fees for services in accordance with standards to be established by the Guardianship Commission and approved by the Court of Chancery.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-18 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-04-01 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-07-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2281da1-8e75-473b-b246-652a4f513dde. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).