republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-91.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES INVOLVING PROPERTY.	This Act creates a new offense of Aggravated Criminal Mischief with enhanced penalties (class D felony) applicable when an individual knowingly damages or tampers with critical utility infrastructure intending to disrupt utility services. In recent years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI have issued repeated warnings about domestic terrorists and extremist groups targeting critical utility infrastructure. Bulletins issued through DHS’ National Terrorism Advisory System in 2022 warned of a heightened threat environment based, in part, on “continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure.” Physical and computerized attacks on electric utility equipment have reached a 10-year high in 2022. Recent attacks in Washington and North Carolina have caused substantial outages and damage to the power grids in both states.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 91	Delaware HB 91 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryant L. Richardson Daniel B. Short Darius J. Brown David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Franklin D. Cooke John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Peter C. Schwartzkopf Ronald E. Gray Ruth Briggs King Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Shannon Morris Spiros Mantzavinos Valerie Longhurst William Bush	3	11	3	2023-03-24	2024-02-28	openstates	ocd-bill/f7c6fde1-08ec-4e5d-8cdf-341596bcaa19	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130114	ecf2982a6a1bb8c724c9c4a6224b80f5b0a6e5e52ca5a84096b817a2f0b5a0a6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 91 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFENSES INVOLVING PROPERTY.

This Act creates a new offense of Aggravated Criminal Mischief with enhanced penalties (class D felony) applicable when an individual knowingly damages or tampers with critical utility infrastructure intending to disrupt utility services. In recent years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI have issued repeated warnings about domestic terrorists and extremist groups targeting critical utility infrastructure. Bulletins issued through DHS’ National Terrorism Advisory System in 2022 warned of a heightened threat environment based, in part, on “continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure.” Physical and computerized attacks on electric utility equipment have reached a 10-year high in 2022. Recent attacks in Washington and North Carolina have caused substantial outages and damage to the power grids in both states.

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 91 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to HB 91 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–1 (pass) · lower
• SM — 36–1 (pass) · lower
• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Shannon Morris — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-24 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-04-04 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 91 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-04-25 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 ABSENT passage
• 2023-04-25 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-28 Amendment SA 1 to HB 91 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-06-28 Amendment SA 1 to HB 91 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2023-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2024-01-23 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7c6fde1-08ec-4e5d-8cdf-341596bcaa19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).