republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-248.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WORKPLACE SAFETY PROGRAM.	This Act makes updates to the Delaware workplace safety program to increase the workers’ compensation insurance credit that businesses can access while maintaining overall program stability. Past legislation that adjusted Workplace Safety Program parameters led to the filing of a new Experience Rating Plan by Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau, which inadvertently resulted in lower discounts. Most businesses with lower-than-average claim costs, regardless of size, continue to see reductions in their experience modification factors. The Workplace Safety Program credit and the experience modification factor savings result in a similar savings as before for employers with favorable loss history. However, this was not the intention of prior law. This Act ensures that companies can reach maximum premium savings of 12%.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 248	Delaware SB 248 (153)	bill		enacted	Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Kerri Evelyn Harris Nicole Poore Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride Stell Parker Selby	0	7	2	2026-03-05	2026-06-10	openstates	ocd-bill/e2abc239-b853-44a6-8642-1aceee9ec06c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142909	9fad3bfda086b63c51d0a6dd15c0185f608405170b31ca104a24a81beb133e3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 248 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WORKPLACE SAFETY PROGRAM.

This Act makes updates to the Delaware workplace safety program to increase the workers’ compensation insurance credit that businesses can access while maintaining overall program stability. Past legislation that adjusted Workplace Safety Program parameters led to the filing of a new Experience Rating Plan by Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau, which inadvertently resulted in lower discounts. Most businesses with lower-than-average claim costs, regardless of size, continue to see reductions in their experience modification factors. The Workplace Safety Program credit and the experience modification factor savings result in a similar savings as before for employers with favorable loss history. However, this was not the intention of prior law. This Act ensures that companies can reach maximum premium savings of 12%.

Version chain

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

Votes

• SM — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-03-05 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2026-03-18 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2026-03-26 Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2026-04-14 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-05-05 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2026-06-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2abc239-b853-44a6-8642-1aceee9ec06c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).