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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DETENTION FACILITIES."
description: "House Substitute No. 2 for House Bill No. 151 prohibits the State, a unit of local government, or any agency, officer, employee, or agent thereof, from doing the following with respect to a detention facility owned, managed, or operated by a private entity: (1) Enter into an agreement of any kind for the detention of an individual with; (2) Pay, reimburse, subsidize, or defray in any way any cost related to the sale, purchase, construction, development, ownership, management, or operation of; (3) Receive per diem, per detainee, or any other payment related to the detention of an individual in; (4) Give any financial incentive or benefit to any private entity or person in connection with the sale, purchase, construction, development, ownership, management, or operation of."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 151"
citation: "Delaware HB 151 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "Eric Morrison", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Mara Gorman", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-04-15"
last_action: "2026-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ae01248-47ce-4411-bd65-2053b6cfb62c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=143093"
source_hash: "4112230a50a126ed82f3209a2215ad3a09266d90e971926fb087a032f3298859"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware HB 151 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DETENTION FACILITIES.
House Substitute No. 2 for House Bill No. 151 prohibits the State, a unit of local government, or any agency, officer, employee, or agent thereof, from doing the following with respect to a detention facility owned, managed, or operated by a private entity: (1) Enter into an agreement of any kind for the detention of an individual with; (2) Pay, reimburse, subsidize, or defray in any way any cost related to the sale, purchase, construction, development, ownership, management, or operation of; (3) Receive per diem, per detainee, or any other payment related to the detention of an individual in; (4) Give any financial incentive or benefit to any private entity or person in connection with the sale, purchase, construction, development, ownership, management, or operation of.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **2813** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-04-15** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 151 `introduction`
- **2026-04-16** Passed By House. Votes: 28 YES 13 NO `passage`
- **2026-04-16** Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-22** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2026-05-21** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ae01248-47ce-4411-bd65-2053b6cfb62c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).