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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND EMPLOYER ASSESSMENTS."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 49"
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citation: "Delaware HB 49 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 11
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-01-13"
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last_action: "2023-01-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52eb11a5-9d84-46bf-a3ce-b60c3711a742"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129939"
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source_hash: "28be7e42249f5c6aad760c0d39e7b56857c6212d0c723466a1081e08cc9d2b5c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 49 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND EMPLOYER ASSESSMENTS.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=129939&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB49)
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## Votes
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- SM — **16–4** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-13** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-01-18** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-01-18** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-25** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-01-26** Laid On Table in Senate
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- **2023-01-26** Lifted From Table in Senate
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- **2023-01-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-01-26** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52eb11a5-9d84-46bf-a3ce-b60c3711a742`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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