republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-163.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES.	Presently, Title 29 of the Delaware Code § 5813(c) requires public officers to file financial disclosure forms on March 15 of each year. However, in certain years, for example, 2025, the statute calls for financial disclosures to be filed over the weekend, because March 15, 2025 fell on a Saturday. On weekends, the assistance of the Public Integrity Commission may not be available. This Act changes the deadline for filing financial disclosures to “on or before the third Wednesday of March” which will be a weekday and a regular business day. This Act also clarifies the statute by expressly stating that the financial disclosures may be filed “on or before” the new deadline, in keeping with the current practice of the Public Integrity Commission.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 163	Delaware SB 163 (153)	bill		enacted	Cyndie Romer David P. Sokola	0	7	2	2025-05-22	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/4d892813-a5d2-42b6-ae1d-971b98cb0034	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142383	21f06fb7524bf83b97778cc527805909a51e228231e0a5e3a17e4d184e276651	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 163 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES.

Presently, Title 29 of the Delaware Code § 5813(c) requires public officers to file financial disclosure forms on March 15 of each year. However, in certain years, for example, 2025, the statute calls for financial disclosures to be filed over the weekend, because March 15, 2025 fell on a Saturday. On weekends, the assistance of the Public Integrity Commission may not be available. This Act changes the deadline for filing financial disclosures to “on or before the third Wednesday of March” which will be a weekday and a regular business day. This Act also clarifies the statute by expressly stating that the financial disclosures may be filed “on or before” the new deadline, in keeping with the current practice of the Public Integrity Commission.

Version chain

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

Votes

• 3/4 — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-22 Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-12 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-07-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d892813-a5d2-42b6-ae1d-971b98cb0034. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).