republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-139.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE.	This Act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault by doing all of the following:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 139	Delaware SB 139 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Cyndie Romer Darius J. Brown Dave G. Lawson David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Eric Morrison Franklin D. Cooke John "Jack" Walsh Josue O Ortega Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Ray Seigfried Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby Trey Paradee	0	8	2	2025-05-13	2025-08-20	openstates	ocd-bill/76d9d43c-7e76-4288-b97d-78ed098c3354	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142266	8c712082e61e22bbf6f7f3c09b6e102819481e70a859725e3df5d796f5da1095	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 139 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE.

This Act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault by doing all of the following:

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 19–0 (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)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-13 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-15 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-05 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-08-20 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/76d9d43c-7e76-4288-b97d-78ed098c3354. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).