republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-49.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND EMPLOYER ASSESSMENTS.	This Act provides post-pandemic related relief to both claimants receiving unemployment benefits and employers who are assessed unemployment taxes. This bill will increase the maximum weekly benefit amount payable to claimants seeking unemployment compensation benefits from the Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance from $400.00 a week to $450.00 a week. The funds necessary to pay the increased weekly benefit amounts will be paid from the Unemployment Trust Fund. Delaware currently pays unemployment claimants less per week in benefits than claimants are paid in each neighboring state. The maximum weekly benefit amount has not changed since 2019.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 49	Delaware HB 49 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Edward S. Osienski John "Jack" Walsh Laura V. Sturgeon Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable William Bush	1	11	2	2023-01-13	2023-01-26	openstates	ocd-bill/52eb11a5-9d84-46bf-a3ce-b60c3711a742	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129939	28be7e42249f5c6aad760c0d39e7b56857c6212d0c723466a1081e08cc9d2b5c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 49 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND EMPLOYER ASSESSMENTS.

This Act provides post-pandemic related relief to both claimants receiving unemployment benefits and employers who are assessed unemployment taxes. This bill will increase the maximum weekly benefit amount payable to claimants seeking unemployment compensation benefits from the Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance from $400.00 a week to $450.00 a week. The funds necessary to pay the increased weekly benefit amounts will be paid from the Unemployment Trust Fund. Delaware currently pays unemployment claimants less per week in benefits than claimants are paid in each neighboring state. The maximum weekly benefit amount has not changed since 2019.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 16–4 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-13 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-01-17 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-17 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-17 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-18 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-01-18 Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-01-25 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 5 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-26 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2023-01-26 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2023-01-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-01-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52eb11a5-9d84-46bf-a3ce-b60c3711a742. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).