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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LINE OF DUTY DEATH BENEFITS."
description: "This Act adds 911 dispatchers as “covered persons” for purposes of line of duty death benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 451"
citation: "Delaware HB 451 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Russell Huxtable", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-06-20"
last_action: "2024-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94660366-1939-4c23-996e-0bd18c30088a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141620"
source_hash: "95e1ec2b5d045dd42eee8a92768cc33d7edadb6c4cbac6a7c8c6bc325f80ea21"
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 451 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LINE OF DUTY DEATH BENEFITS.
This Act adds 911 dispatchers as “covered persons” for purposes of line of duty death benefits.
## 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=141620&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB451)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-06-20** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2024-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-11-01** 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/94660366-1939-4c23-996e-0bd18c30088a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).