republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-203.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT.	Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is commensurate to the gravity of the misconduct. This Act makes the following modifications to ensure legislative intent is achieved:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 203	Delaware SB 203 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend David P. Sokola Eric Morrison Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Michael Ramone Nicole Poore Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Trey Paradee	1	7	2	2024-01-09	2024-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6f3ced3c-b44b-40e1-bc10-3d998f285392	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140838	15a6d1007493241bddbcb76e41fb29a32b7146bf5b34811983316296ea343827	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 203 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT.

Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is commensurate to the gravity of the misconduct. This Act makes the following modifications to ensure legislative intent is achieved:

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 19–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — 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 Matthews — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-03-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO passage
• 2024-03-14 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2024-09-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f3ced3c-b44b-40e1-bc10-3d998f285392. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).