republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-176.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION DEADLINES.	This bill would extend various deadlines in the Unemployment Code. The intent is to provide claimants and employers additional time to receive and prepare a response or appeal of benefit determinations and other important documents that require a response, in an effort to reduce the incidents of late filed appeals and missed deadlines. This would benefit claimants and employers by providing more time, while also reducing the administrative burden to the Division of Unemployment Insurance of responding to late appeals and late filed documents. This bill also makes conforming changes to additional sections of the Unemployment Code that provide for delivery by mail or other delivery methods to provide flexibility to the Division and Board if they decide to send notices and other documents by email or other delivery methods to reduce mailing expenses and increase efficiency. Finally, this bill confirms Superior Court precedent that Code references to “days” mean “calendar days” unless otherwise specified.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 176	Delaware HB 176 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend David L. Wilson Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable Ruth Briggs King Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos	1	7	2	2023-06-01	2023-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/ff8bdc23-e369-4883-8487-665d3c29fc35	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140485	445d24c7f66aa42b2a3c05919a3708a6ce9849240bb8f36204c8c6f62f184cd8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 176 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION DEADLINES.

This bill would extend various deadlines in the Unemployment Code. The intent is to provide claimants and employers additional time to receive and prepare a response or appeal of benefit determinations and other important documents that require a response, in an effort to reduce the incidents of late filed appeals and missed deadlines. This would benefit claimants and employers by providing more time, while also reducing the administrative burden to the Division of Unemployment Insurance of responding to late appeals and late filed documents. This bill also makes conforming changes to additional sections of the Unemployment Code that provide for delivery by mail or other delivery methods to provide flexibility to the Division and Board if they decide to send notices and other documents by email or other delivery methods to reduce mailing expenses and increase efficiency. Finally, this bill confirms Superior Court precedent that Code references to “days” mean “calendar days” unless otherwise specified.

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 — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-01 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-21 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-21 Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-08-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff8bdc23-e369-4883-8487-665d3c29fc35. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).