republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-239.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEARING OFFICERS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.	This Act removes the 5-year term limit imposed upon hearing officers appointed by the Secretary of Labor. It also removes the political party affiliation rule when considering new candidates for the hearing officer position.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 239	Delaware SB 239 (152)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski John "Jack" Walsh Russell Huxtable	2	11	2	2024-03-13	2024-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/11310880-4dd6-4664-8a1b-4655df9b5732	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141041	3b22279e98984b216d344417beba191b23422eb991a7e3a758824741e229c532	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 239 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEARING OFFICERS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

This Act removes the 5-year term limit imposed upon hearing officers appointed by the Secretary of Labor. It also removes the political party affiliation rule when considering new candidates for the hearing officer position.

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 239 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-13 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-27 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2024-05-07 Amendment SA 1 to SB 239 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-05-14 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2024-05-14 Amendment SA 1 to SB 239 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2024-05-14 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-05-15 Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-25 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11310880-4dd6-4664-8a1b-4655df9b5732. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).