republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-123.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INHERITANCE RIGHTS OF ISSUE AND POSTHUMOUS CHILDREN	This Act clarifies the intestacy rights of child and parent by cross-referencing related provisions of Title 12 and Title 13 and adds a time limit for a child born of a deceased parent to be considered a child of that parent.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 123	Delaware SB 123 (153)	bill		enacted	John "Jack" Walsh Spiros Mantzavinos William Bush	1	9	2	2025-05-01	2025-08-21	openstates	ocd-bill/2b63cfbf-e3ab-439f-9e4e-1b5c8bfd896d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142175	230dc8d06145f7327c83fed7c8c8849587c29f0ace46fcfe1a61a0cbfffd986b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 123 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INHERITANCE RIGHTS OF ISSUE AND POSTHUMOUS CHILDREN

This Act clarifies the intestacy rights of child and parent by cross-referencing related provisions of Title 12 and Title 13 and adds a time limit for a child born of a deceased parent to be considered a child of that parent.

Version chain

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

1. SA 1 to SB 123 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-01 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 Amendment SA 1 to SB 123 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-24 Amendment SA 1 to SB 123 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2025-06-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-06-25 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-26 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-08-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b63cfbf-e3ab-439f-9e4e-1b5c8bfd896d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).