republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-145.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DAMAGES FOR EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION.	This Act increases the limits on the dollar amount of awards of compensatory or punitive damages, or both, in cases of employment discrimination, establishing specific caps based on the number of the respondent's employees. This Act also clarifies that the Superior Court may order equitable relief available under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as back pay and front pay, which is an award made for the period between the date of judgment and the date of reinstatement.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 145	Delaware SB 145 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison John "Jack" Walsh Laura V. Sturgeon	2	9	2	2023-06-01	2023-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/6a63b7a2-7105-43cc-8627-f59d1d1f0932	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140455	6aa11bc0887b43c60d0c75a4389e202e6562c300e25a397c979e873ebefada8a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 145 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DAMAGES FOR EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION.

This Act increases the limits on the dollar amount of awards of compensatory or punitive damages, or both, in cases of employment discrimination, establishing specific caps based on the number of the respondent's employees. This Act also clarifies that the Superior Court may order equitable relief available under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as back pay and front pay, which is an award made for the period between the date of judgment and the date of reinstatement.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 145 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 25–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-01 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-13 Amendment SA 1 to SB 145 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-06-13 Amendment SA 1 to SB 145 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2023-06-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2023-06-14 Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 16 ABSENT passage
• 2023-09-11 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a63b7a2-7105-43cc-8627-f59d1d1f0932. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).