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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNDERINSURANCE MOTORIST COVERAGE."
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description: "This Act eliminates the need to file a lawsuit against a person, who has caused injury with the person's vehicle, when that person's liability insurer has offered the limits of liability coverage to the injured person and the injured person’s underinsured motorist insurer either consents to the settlement or fails to timely reply to the request for permission to settle. The goal of this Act is to have fewer lawsuits filed merely to obtain permission to accept liability insurers' offer to settle a claim. This Act is not intended to require any person to seek permission from an underinsured motorist insurer to resolve a bodily injury claim."
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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: "SB 139"
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citation: "Delaware SB 139 (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", "Darius J. Brown", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Nicole Poore", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-05-19"
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last_action: "2023-06-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0fc050d-5b07-447d-9641-064695b56b6b"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140446"
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source_hash: "284704bff76f72026ab1a68536bcc5684a61deb4de3643f61c0bb86c8d993ae2"
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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 SB 139 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNDERINSURANCE MOTORIST COVERAGE.
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This Act eliminates the need to file a lawsuit against a person, who has caused injury with the person's vehicle, when that person's liability insurer has offered the limits of liability coverage to the injured person and the injured person’s underinsured motorist insurer either consents to the settlement or fails to timely reply to the request for permission to settle. The goal of this Act is to have fewer lawsuits filed merely to obtain permission to accept liability insurers' offer to settle a claim. This Act is not intended to require any person to seek permission from an underinsured motorist insurer to resolve a bodily injury claim.
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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=140446&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB139)
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## Votes
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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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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- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — 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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- **2023-05-19** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2023-06-08** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-06-29** 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/d0fc050d-5b07-447d-9641-064695b56b6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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