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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WIRETAPPING AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE."
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description: "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."
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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 91"
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citation: "Delaware SB 91 (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", "Kendra Johnson", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sarah McBride"]
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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: "2023-04-19"
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last_action: "2023-09-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/141a7259-a120-4259-97cc-5b09f669ab70"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130213"
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source_hash: "5ea309e77beff2ed058eba9626cee12c85bee1e31422333e4f38370291cfd62e"
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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 91 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WIRETAPPING AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE.
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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.
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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=130213&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB91)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **38–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — 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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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-04-19** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2023-05-10** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2023-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-09-11** 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/141a7259-a120-4259-97cc-5b09f669ab70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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