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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR DEPARTMENT OF LABOR EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUBCONTRACTORS WITH ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION. This Act expands the statute for obtaining criminal background checks from just employees and contractors within the Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance who have access to federal tax information, to all new hires, transfers, promotions, contractors, subcontractors, and volunteers of the following departments, divisions, and offices: us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 153 HB 20 Delaware HB 20 (153)
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Brian Pettyjohn
Bryan Townsend
Dave G. Lawson
Edward S. Osienski
Franklin D. Cooke
John "Jack" Walsh
Laura V. Sturgeon
Nicole Poore
Russell Huxtable
Sarah McBride
Spiros Mantzavinos
0 7 2 2025-01-30 2025-06-24 openstates ocd-bill/a5136b0c-b5cd-404e-a764-49b58f09859f https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141852 47c2f33cd31c5c870d4223c9c32c08eb967140ff28156b6c3cd450e33af719d2 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Delaware HB 20 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR DEPARTMENT OF LABOR EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUBCONTRACTORS WITH ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION.

This Act expands the statute for obtaining criminal background checks from just employees and contractors within the Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance who have access to federal tax information, to all new hires, transfers, promotions, contractors, subcontractors, and volunteers of the following departments, divisions, and offices:

Version chain

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

Votes

  • SM — 360 (pass) · lower
  • SM — 180 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
  • Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
  • Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
  • Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
  • Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
  • John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
  • Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
  • Nicole Poore — primary (person)
  • Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
  • Sarah McBride — primary (person)
  • Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-30 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-03-18 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-20 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT passage
  • 2025-03-20 Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-05-14 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 6 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
  • 2025-06-24 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5136b0c-b5cd-404e-a764-49b58f09859f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).