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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MISCONDUCT BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "SB 67"
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citation: "Delaware SB 67 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["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"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-03-23"
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last_action: "2023-09-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fd1dfa0-41a1-4120-b554-da2f8fc38d5c"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130107"
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source_hash: "91b78a5f203ea9fb1e7cf93a5d15d2b86204564130daa8e41d2c696bb342a9ce"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 67 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MISCONDUCT BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=130107&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB67)
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## Votes
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- SM — **18–3** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **25–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-03-23** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 NO `passage`
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- **2023-04-28** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2023-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 16 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-09-21** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fd1dfa0-41a1-4120-b554-da2f8fc38d5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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