republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-91.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WIRETAPPING AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE.	Delaware law on the application to an authorized judge for the intercept of wire communications was written prior to the creation of the statutory divisions of Family, Fraud and Consumer Protection, and Civil Rights and Public Trust, within the Delaware Department of Justice. This would allow for the divisions leading, for example, sensitive fraud, public corruption, white collar, civil rights and hate crimes investigations to apply to the Superior Court for wire intercepts, and further makes clear that such investigations fall within the purview of the electronic surveillance chapter. Human trafficking is already included in the statute, but its investigations and prosecutions now fall under the jurisdiction of the Family Division.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 91	Delaware SB 91 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Kendra Johnson Kyle Evans Gay Nicole Poore Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Sarah McBride	1	7	2	2023-04-19	2023-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/141a7259-a120-4259-97cc-5b09f669ab70	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130213	5ea309e77beff2ed058eba9626cee12c85bee1e31422333e4f38370291cfd62e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 91 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WIRETAPPING AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE.

Delaware law on the application to an authorized judge for the intercept of wire communications was written prior to the creation of the statutory divisions of Family, Fraud and Consumer Protection, and Civil Rights and Public Trust, within the Delaware Department of Justice. This would allow for the divisions leading, for example, sensitive fraud, public corruption, white collar, civil rights and hate crimes investigations to apply to the Superior Court for wire intercepts, and further makes clear that such investigations fall within the purview of the electronic surveillance chapter. Human trafficking is already included in the statute, but its investigations and prosecutions now fall under the jurisdiction of the Family Division.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-19 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2023-05-10 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-21 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-09-11 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/141a7259-a120-4259-97cc-5b09f669ab70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).