republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-291.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES.	This Act requires that a candidate’s political committee’s contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. This Act also requires the Department of Elections to provide a telephone number and online form for reporting alleged campaign financing violations. The informant must provide their name and contact information to the Department. The information provided to the Department is not to be considered a public record under FOIA. This Act also allows reporting parties who unintentionally receive a prohibited contribution or make a prohibited expenditure to return or reimburse the contribution or pay the contribution to the State Treasurer. This Act also eliminates the ability of anyone who makes or accepts a prohibited campaign contribution from donating the money to a designated Title 30 charitable organization. The Act requires anyone who knowingly accepts an unlawful campaign contribution to pay the money to the State Treasurer for deposit to the General Fund.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 291	Delaware HB 291 (152)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison Franklin D. Cooke Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Madinah Wilson-Anton Michael F. Smith Paul S. Baumbach Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Trey Paradee	2	11	2	2024-01-17	2024-10-23	openstates	ocd-bill/f6d6443a-430e-4664-8865-8857fe81922a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140859	444254269bbbb5351e7fe511bb793d589c9729d02d1d0e8a70e84fe60aede99a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 291 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES.

This Act requires that a candidate’s political committee’s contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. This Act also requires the Department of Elections to provide a telephone number and online form for reporting alleged campaign financing violations. The informant must provide their name and contact information to the Department. The information provided to the Department is not to be considered a public record under FOIA. This Act also allows reporting parties who unintentionally receive a prohibited contribution or make a prohibited expenditure to return or reimburse the contribution or pay the contribution to the State Treasurer. This Act also eliminates the ability of anyone who makes or accepts a prohibited campaign contribution from donating the money to a designated Title 30 charitable organization. The Act requires anyone who knowingly accepts an unlawful campaign contribution to pay the money to the State Treasurer for deposit to the General Fund.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to HB 291 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — 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
• 2024-02-29 Amendment HA 1 to HB 291 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-04-18 Amendment HA 2 to HB 291 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-18 Amendment HA 1 to HB 291 - Stricken in House
• 2024-06-18 Amendment HA 2 to HB 291 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-06-18 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2024-06-18 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-10-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6d6443a-430e-4664-8865-8857fe81922a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).