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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1, TITLE 2, TITLE 3, TITLE 4, TITLE 5, TITLE 7, TITLE 12, TITLE 16, TITLE 25, TITLE 26, TITLE 27, TITLE 28, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GENDER SILENCING THE DELAWARE CODE. | In 1995, the General Assembly directed the Code Revisors to gender neutralize or otherwise ensure that a solely masculine or feminine designation never occurs unless it could only apply to one gender. The Code Revisors followed this direction and worked to ensure that laws enacted after 1995 were gender neutralized during the codification process. The Code Revisors also began working through the Delaware Code in existence in 1995 to gender neutralize existing law, a process that is not yet complete. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 152 | SB 97 | Delaware SB 97 (152) |
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1 | 7 | 2 | 2023-04-19 | 2023-05-31 | openstates | ocd-bill/2796e7c3-9f99-4331-937d-711ae7a759a7 | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130224 | b23bd6ce0480fb30b05fe806fe60e99d4acefd24ed9cca5f398f27ea0dc4fd0a | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware SB 97 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1, TITLE 2, TITLE 3, TITLE 4, TITLE 5, TITLE 7, TITLE 12, TITLE 16, TITLE 25, TITLE 26, TITLE 27, TITLE 28, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GENDER SILENCING THE DELAWARE CODE.
In 1995, the General Assembly directed the Code Revisors to gender neutralize or otherwise ensure that a solely masculine or feminine designation never occurs unless it could only apply to one gender. The Code Revisors followed this direction and worked to ensure that laws enacted after 1995 were gender neutralized during the codification process. The Code Revisors also began working through the Delaware Code in existence in 1995 to gender neutralize existing law, a process that is not yet complete.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower
- SM — 19–1 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-04-19 Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2023-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2023-05-04 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT
passage - 2023-05-05 Assigned to Administration Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2023-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
committee-passage - 2023-05-11 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT
passage - 2023-05-31 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2796e7c3-9f99-4331-937d-711ae7a759a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).