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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO APPEALS."
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description: "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."
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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 43"
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citation: "Delaware HB 43 (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", "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"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-03-06"
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last_action: "2025-05-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b8f784b-e761-4fce-95de-e4b5ae98806e"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141870"
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source_hash: "47b2de1d648828379fde19a94cfd83c72002db7a4ef1754479e1da891a312f87"
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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 43 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO APPEALS.
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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.
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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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## Votes
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- SM — **36–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
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- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — 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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- **2025-03-06** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-12** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-13** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-03-13** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2025-05-22** 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/9b8f784b-e761-4fce-95de-e4b5ae98806e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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