republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-288.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE AND CHAPTER 168 OF VOLUME 84 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF RESEARCH.	This Act changes the name of the Division of Research to the "Division of Legislative Services" (Division) to more fully reflect the tasks that the Division performs. In addition to legislative research, the Division's tasks include drafting bills, editing the Delaware Code, staffing task forces, printing bills and other materials for the General Assembly, providing constituent and legislator services through the Legislative Information Office, and publishing the Register of Regulations and Administrative Code.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 288	Delaware HB 288 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend David P. Sokola Kendra Johnson Kerri Evelyn Harris Lyndon D. Yearick Michael Ramone S. Elizabeth Lockman Stell Parker Selby Trey Paradee Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2024-01-17	2024-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ebdb4d98-88b1-4049-8930-466711a8fbfd	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140852	de0c0cb3785452cecf835f9e0db7a961cdfd0a415c16a85cbf14edfe0afedea3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 288 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE AND CHAPTER 168 OF VOLUME 84 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF RESEARCH.

This Act changes the name of the Division of Research to the "Division of Legislative Services" (Division) to more fully reflect the tasks that the Division performs. In addition to legislative research, the Division's tasks include drafting bills, editing the Delaware Code, staffing task forces, printing bills and other materials for the General Assembly, providing constituent and legislator services through the Legislative Information Office, and publishing the Register of Regulations and Administrative Code.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-17 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-12 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2024-03-12 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-04-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebdb4d98-88b1-4049-8930-466711a8fbfd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).