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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. | The Delaware Equal Accommodations Law, Chapter 45 of Title 6, prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on the basis of race, age, marital status, creed, religion, color, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. This Act ensures that all government services, including those provided directly by government entities and those that are government-funded or supervised, are subject to the same non-discrimination requirements as private businesses by revising the definition of “place of public accommodation”. This Act also creates a definition of “person” that is consistent with similar definitions in the Code. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 153 | HB 37 | Delaware HB 37 (153) |
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0 | 8 | 2 | 2025-05-14 | 2025-08-20 | openstates | ocd-bill/4d3e3a96-28bf-4bdc-9587-989489da006a | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142287 | 19e9d9b0ccbda2f1ccf4270ef50afdfa4a00442c38b285128ad560094c415855 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 37 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS.
The Delaware Equal Accommodations Law, Chapter 45 of Title 6, prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on the basis of race, age, marital status, creed, religion, color, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. This Act ensures that all government services, including those provided directly by government entities and those that are government-funded or supervised, are subject to the same non-discrimination requirements as private businesses by revising the definition of “place of public accommodation”. This Act also creates a definition of “person” that is consistent with similar definitions in the Code.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- SM — 26–12 (pass) · lower
- SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-05-14 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
committee-passage - 2025-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 12 NO 3 ABSENT
passage - 2025-06-17 Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2025-06-25 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-06-30 Amendment SA 1 to HB 37 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 12 NO 3 NOT VOTING
amendment-failure - 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO
passage - 2025-08-20 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d3e3a96-28bf-4bdc-9587-989489da006a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).