republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-43.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO APPEALS.	This bill adopts an inmate mailbox rule similar to the federal inmate mailbox rule. If a pro se inmate files an appeal while incarcerated, the date of filing will be counted as the date that that the inmate gave the appeal to the DOC officials for mailing rather than the date that the Courts receive the appeal.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 43	Delaware HB 43 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Cyndie Romer David P. Sokola Eric Morrison Kerri Evelyn Harris Mara Gorman Marie Pinkney Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Ray Seigfried Sean M. Lynn Spiros Mantzavinos	0	7	2	2025-03-06	2025-05-22	openstates	ocd-bill/9b8f784b-e761-4fce-95de-e4b5ae98806e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141870	47b2de1d648828379fde19a94cfd83c72002db7a4ef1754479e1da891a312f87	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 43 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO APPEALS.

This bill adopts an inmate mailbox rule similar to the federal inmate mailbox rule. If a pro se inmate files an appeal while incarcerated, the date of filing will be counted as the date that that the inmate gave the appeal to the DOC officials for mailing rather than the date that the Courts receive the appeal.

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 36–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — 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)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-06 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT passage
• 2025-03-13 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-05-22 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b8f784b-e761-4fce-95de-e4b5ae98806e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).