republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-151.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROTECTION FROM ABUSE PROCEEDINGS.	This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adult’s access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible property of the petitioner includes legal documents belonging to the petitioner. In addition, this Act codifies the existing practice of Family Court to allow relief by ordering respondents to return specific legal documents. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 151	Delaware HB 151 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Cyndie Romer David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison Franklin D. Cooke Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Madinah Wilson-Anton Marie Pinkney Nicole Poore Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable Ruth Briggs King S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos William Bush	2	9	2	2023-05-11	2023-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/11b3c873-dc61-45af-8f6e-f2d111a351f7	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130368	3df85f041f6a2dfeb97d1cb9717db40eb632ca56000abb42d6545a47c94bb7c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 151 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROTECTION FROM ABUSE PROCEEDINGS.

This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adult’s access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible property of the petitioner includes legal documents belonging to the petitioner. In addition, this Act codifies the existing practice of Family Court to allow relief by ordering respondents to return specific legal documents. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 151 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-11 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-01 Amendment HA 1 to HB 151 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 3 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2023-06-22 Amendment HA 1 to HB 151 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-06-22 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-22 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-09-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11b3c873-dc61-45af-8f6e-f2d111a351f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).