republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-53.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.	This bill removes the requirement that a head or assistant head of any Division of the State Department of Justice or the Chief Prosecutor of a particular county be a resident of the State of Delaware.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 53	Delaware HB 53 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Kendra Johnson Krista Griffith	2	12	2	2023-01-18	2023-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/7f6c4f89-9dc4-498a-9152-f6fcbb7e96ce	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129953	b35ca17d33aba9228f6ba4a26c1a44301f7aa35e1f40240693fe049a0da323f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 53 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

This bill removes the requirement that a head or assistant head of any Division of the State Department of Justice or the Chief Prosecutor of a particular county be a resident of the State of Delaware.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 53 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-18 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-01-25 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-01-25 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-03-13 Amendment HA 1 to HB 53 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-13 Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-14 Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Defeated By House. Votes: 8 YES 29 NO 2 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT amendment-failure
• 2023-03-14 Amendment HA 1 to HB 53 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-03-14 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-03-14 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2023-05-11 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO passage
• 2023-05-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f6c4f89-9dc4-498a-9152-f6fcbb7e96ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).