republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-267.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS.	This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a person’s license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability of the person to pay the support.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 267	Delaware HB 267 (152)	bill		enacted	Cyndie Romer Eric Morrison Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos Trey Paradee	2	9	2	2023-12-14	2024-10-23	openstates	ocd-bill/c1cf30f1-e950-43e5-b2e0-4aa88fc103e3	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140810	9057e1b11c2f9b996a89841b1cd3e0ec03ada04eff567225fa46dc8ee8746193	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 267 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS.

This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a person’s license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability of the person to pay the support.

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 267 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper
• SM — 31–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-14 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-24 Amendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-01-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 267 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-01-25 Passed By House. Votes: 31 YES 5 NO 5 ABSENT passage
• 2024-01-25 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO passage
• 2024-10-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1cf30f1-e950-43e5-b2e0-4aa88fc103e3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).