republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-177.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPASSIONATE LEAVE	This bill increases the amount of Compassionate Leave for eligible employees of the State upon the death of an immediate family member.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 177	Delaware HB 177 (152)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Debra Heffernan Eric Morrison Kendra Johnson Marie Pinkney Nicole Poore Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Sean Matthews Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	13	2	2023-05-18	2023-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/2bbbe023-fb58-4171-91df-b0d664409def	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140429	eebe5194d496a5bef3eeae3b988d709bbd290466644d55e40fad9c2f33991e7b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 177 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPASSIONATE LEAVE

This bill increases the amount of Compassionate Leave for eligible employees of the State upon the death of an immediate family member.

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 177 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 26–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-18 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-14 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-27 Amendment HA 1 to HB 177 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-06-27 Amendment HA 1 to HB 177 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 12 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-28 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-28 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2023-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2bbbe023-fb58-4171-91df-b0d664409def. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).