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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS."
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description: "This Act requires that Department of Finance employees submit to criminal background checks and are subject to continuous criminal history monitoring. It also authorizes the Department to submit contractors or third parties, that require or may require access to Department systems, facilities, or data, to submit to a criminal background check and continuous criminal history monitoring."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "153"
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identifier: "HB 19"
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citation: "Delaware HB 19 (153)"
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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", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-30"
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last_action: "2025-06-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd76953e-fbef-4684-95f9-73ade0fcc74e"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141851"
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source_hash: "1262bbb4502e735f3f2b8bb5f0f5742b341d2bfa5716a914233a6ea5293f085c"
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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 HB 19 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS.
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This Act requires that Department of Finance employees submit to criminal background checks and are subject to continuous criminal history monitoring. It also authorizes the Department to submit contractors or third parties, that require or may require access to Department systems, facilities, or data, to submit to a criminal background check and continuous criminal history monitoring.
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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. **HA 1 to HB 19** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142015&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-30** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-27** Amendment HA 1 to HB 19 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2025-04-09** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2025-04-15** Amendment HA 1 to HB 19 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-04-15** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-04-15** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-06-24** 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/bd76953e-fbef-4684-95f9-73ade0fcc74e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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