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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 13, AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT."
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description: "This Act adopts the 2017 updates to the Uniform Parentage Act (\"Uniform Act\") authored by the Uniform Law Commission. Delaware 's current law related to parentage is based on the Uniform Law Commission's 2000 version of the Uniform Parentage Act. The Uniform Law Commission’s website states that it “provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law.” The 2017 updates to the Uniform Act have been adopted by 11 states and is pending before the Pennsylvania state legislature."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "153"
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identifier: "SB 250"
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citation: "Delaware SB 250 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Mara Gorman", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Stell Parker Selby"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2026-03-05"
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last_action: "2026-06-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a36b50b-ba37-438a-b1df-c94788f23db0"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142910"
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source_hash: "90a41a0c37c0ee26988c694825cabdc271cf96dd62961974c4ecccc1209fab9e"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 250 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10, TITLE 13, AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT.
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This Act adopts the 2017 updates to the Uniform Parentage Act ("Uniform Act") authored by the Uniform Law Commission. Delaware 's current law related to parentage is based on the Uniform Law Commission's 2000 version of the Uniform Parentage Act. The Uniform Law Commission’s website states that it “provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law.” The 2017 updates to the Uniform Act have been adopted by 11 states and is pending before the Pennsylvania state legislature.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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## Votes
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- SM — **26–10** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-03-05** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2026-03-25** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-04-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 6 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2026-04-16** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2026-04-22** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-05-05** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 10 NO 2 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2026-06-09** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a36b50b-ba37-438a-b1df-c94788f23db0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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