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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEE LEAVE."
description: "This Act provides state employees 30, rather than 15, days of paid leave per year to attend training camp or serve special duty as ordered by the military reserves or Delaware National Guard."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 26"
citation: "Delaware HB 26 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Daniel B. Short", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Marie Pinkney", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Ronald E. Gray", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-12-15"
last_action: "2023-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/427e4114-578e-4f63-91f0-6e6e65b22cb9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129892"
source_hash: "6a8d45c4da334aa4ec95754c3f276a4cb277d1a5e492b87711a6c0b7d880102b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware HB 26 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEE LEAVE.
This Act provides state employees 30, rather than 15, days of paid leave per year to attend training camp or serve special duty as ordered by the military reserves or Delaware National Guard.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=129892&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB26)
2. **HA 2 to HB 26** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140593&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **370** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — 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)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-12-15** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-12** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-13** Amendment HA 1 to HB 26 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-13** Amendment HA 1 to HB 26 - Stricken in House
- **2023-06-13** Amendment HA 2 to HB 26 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-13** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-13** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-22** Re-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`
- **2023-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2023-07-17** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/427e4114-578e-4f63-91f0-6e6e65b22cb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).