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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY."
description: "This Act permits an individual who is a reproductive health care services provider or employee to apply for participation in Delaware's Address Confidentiality Program, which allows participants to keep their actual address confidential by applying to the Department of Justice for a substitute address to which all mail will be delivered."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 158"
citation: "Delaware SB 158 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sean Matthews", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-01"
last_action: "2023-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69119c99-da84-4c20-9bba-532a3099d888"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140495"
source_hash: "246655a6da137f64785b7b95cc64b5b1f4348f813a9987bceeae657194e632dc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 158 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY.
This Act permits an individual who is a reproductive health care services provider or employee to apply for participation in Delaware's Address Confidentiality Program, which allows participants to keep their actual address confidential by applying to the Department of Justice for a substitute address to which all mail will be delivered.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140495&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB158)
## Votes
- SM — **250** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2023-06-14** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-15** Re-Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 16 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-08-09** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69119c99-da84-4c20-9bba-532a3099d888`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).