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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GENETICS BASED DISCRIMINATION."
description: "Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 286"
citation: "Delaware HB 286 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Jeffrey N. Spiegelman", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Michael F. Smith", "Michael Ramone", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Richard G. Collins", "Ronald E. Gray", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-13"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab1a1c20-b269-48b8-a46d-de492406c17a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141044"
source_hash: "cb1ac4b018491df9e3ce9bf90f2843b5912e26adc498ee0d38f5e33d7cb4e30a"
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 286 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GENETICS BASED DISCRIMINATION.
Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test.
## 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=141044&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1forHB286)
2. **HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 286** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141073&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
3. **SA 1 to HS 1 for HB 286** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141488&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **370** (pass) · lower
- SM — **180** (pass) · upper
- SM — **370** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Cyndie Romer — 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)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Richard G. Collins — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-13** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 286 `introduction`
- **2024-03-14** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-03-19** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-19** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-06** Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-20** Amendment SA 1 to HS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-10-09** 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/ab1a1c20-b269-48b8-a46d-de492406c17a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).