republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-143.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS AND DIGITAL ACCOUNTS.	Ohio recently adopted “Braden’s Law”, named after Braden Markus. Braden, a high school student, tragically took his own life after being coerced into sharing sensitive photographs online and then threatened with release of the photographs on social media if he did not pay money. Braden’s parents, Jenn and Jarod, endured months of anguish after being denied access to Braden’s personal cell phone records. In response, part of Braden’s Law requires courts to adjudicate a parent or legal guardian’s request for an order directing access to a deceased minor’s digital assets and digital accounts within 30 days.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 143	Delaware SB 143 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Daniel B. Short Dave G. Lawson David L. Wilson Edward S. Osienski Franklin D. Cooke Marie Pinkney Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby	0	7	2	2025-05-13	2025-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/192c8a79-9e76-40c0-89c6-9dc12dc269dd	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142277	c0e6da49d2e8bda0107a1656190a060e7499520855f7d5ad9d8265c337513512	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 143 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS AND DIGITAL ACCOUNTS.

Ohio recently adopted “Braden’s Law”, named after Braden Markus. Braden, a high school student, tragically took his own life after being coerced into sharing sensitive photographs online and then threatened with release of the photographs on social media if he did not pay money. Braden’s parents, Jenn and Jarod, endured months of anguish after being denied access to Braden’s personal cell phone records. In response, part of Braden’s Law requires courts to adjudicate a parent or legal guardian’s request for an order directing access to a deceased minor’s digital assets and digital accounts within 30 days.

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)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-13 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-12 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 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
• 2025-09-19 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/192c8a79-9e76-40c0-89c6-9dc12dc269dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).