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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION DEADLINES."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 176"
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citation: "Delaware HB 176 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["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"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-06-01"
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last_action: "2023-08-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff8bdc23-e369-4883-8487-665d3c29fc35"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140485"
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source_hash: "445d24c7f66aa42b2a3c05919a3708a6ce9849240bb8f36204c8c6f62f184cd8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 176 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION DEADLINES.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140485&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB176)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-06-21** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2023-08-09** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff8bdc23-e369-4883-8487-665d3c29fc35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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