republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-67.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MISCONDUCT BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS.	This Act updates the crime of official misconduct to ensure appropriate accountability of public servants who abuse their positions of power and public trust. The statute establishes a grade in the penalty for the official misconduct to be commensurate to the gravity of the misconduct. In addition, this statute conforms the discrimination language to the language used in the Hate Crimes statute. It also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 67	Delaware SB 67 (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	2023-03-23	2023-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/6fd1dfa0-41a1-4120-b554-da2f8fc38d5c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130107	91b78a5f203ea9fb1e7cf93a5d15d2b86204564130daa8e41d2c696bb342a9ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 67 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MISCONDUCT BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS.

This Act updates the crime of official misconduct to ensure appropriate accountability of public servants who abuse their positions of power and public trust. The statute establishes a grade in the penalty for the official misconduct to be commensurate to the gravity of the misconduct. In addition, this statute conforms the discrimination language to the language used in the Hate Crimes statute. It also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 18–3 (pass) · upper
• SM — 25–0 (pass) · lower

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.

• 2023-03-23 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 NO passage
• 2023-04-28 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 16 ABSENT passage
• 2023-09-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6fd1dfa0-41a1-4120-b554-da2f8fc38d5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).