republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-197.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STALKING.	This Act expands the definition of a “course of conduct” in the stalking statute and also provides that if the court finds as a matter of law that acts subject to this statute are in fact constitutionally protected activities, then all evidence associated with those activities must be excluded.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 197	Delaware HB 197 (153)	bill		enacted	Claire Snyder-Hall Cyndie Romer Krista Griffith Laura V. Sturgeon Sarah McBride	1	9	2	2025-06-05	2026-05-21	openstates	ocd-bill/9a0fe290-656f-447d-83c0-c5eda04f6545	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142415	84dd6e11434f0db9dfd6bef33d0350e3bdb9947b99b35e656d3ba69ed603b7c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 197 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STALKING.

This Act expands the definition of a “course of conduct” in the stalking statute and also provides that if the court finds as a matter of law that acts subject to this statute are in fact constitutionally protected activities, then all evidence associated with those activities must be excluded.

Version chain

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

1. HA 1 to HB 197 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 37–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-05 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-24 Amendment HA 1 to HB 197 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-30 Amendment HA 1 to HB 197 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-07-01 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2026-01-21 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2026-05-05 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2026-05-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a0fe290-656f-447d-83c0-c5eda04f6545. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).