republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-73.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL ACTIONS TO RECOVER OVERPAID UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.	This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 73 provides a 5-year statute of limitations for the Department of Labor to bring civil actions to recover nonfraud overpayment debts and no period of limitations to recover fraud overpayment debts. This portion of the Substitute will apply to overpayment debts for which the statute of limitations has not yet run, which includes those that accrued less than 3 years prior to the enactment of this Act. This Substitute expressly codifies the current law that there is no deadline for the Department to collect overpayment debts by offset of future benefits, by state Department of Revenue offset or by federal Treasury offset of tax refunds, the last of which is mandated by federal law. Finally, this Substitute creates an overpayment waiver program, effective retroactively to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, to give the Department authority to waive non-fraud overpayments of traditional unemployment benefits resulting from either Department error or claimants receiving certain low-income public assistance.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 73	Delaware HB 73 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Edward S. Osienski John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Michael F. Smith	1	6	2	2023-06-15	2023-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/232d039b-87bf-4d9b-ac09-ffd43e49fe6a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140622	68c4aba3e367c05fe94d170728c0b3ef0ab3a41533a1b437f617b84c97510233	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 73 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CIVIL ACTIONS TO RECOVER OVERPAID UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 73 provides a 5-year statute of limitations for the Department of Labor to bring civil actions to recover nonfraud overpayment debts and no period of limitations to recover fraud overpayment debts. This portion of the Substitute will apply to overpayment debts for which the statute of limitations has not yet run, which includes those that accrued less than 3 years prior to the enactment of this Act. This Substitute expressly codifies the current law that there is no deadline for the Department to collect overpayment debts by offset of future benefits, by state Department of Revenue offset or by federal Treasury offset of tax refunds, the last of which is mandated by federal law. Finally, this Substitute creates an overpayment waiver program, effective retroactively to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, to give the Department authority to waive non-fraud overpayments of traditional unemployment benefits resulting from either Department error or claimants receiving certain low-income public assistance.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/4 — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-15 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 73 introduction
• 2023-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-20 Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-09-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/232d039b-87bf-4d9b-ac09-ffd43e49fe6a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).