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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF STATE PENSIONERS."
description: "Current law allows pensioners to be employed in a Governor-appointed position or as a temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employee, including as a substitute teacher, but only after a 6-month separation of service period if the pensioner is under age 65 and limits annual earnings by temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employees to $50,000 before an individuals earnings affect the amount of the individuals pension."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "Delaware SB 52 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan W. Shupe", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Buckson", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Ronald E. Gray", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Stell Parker Selby", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfa3c1d9-9869-4ee8-a0c2-6a302ba22832"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141827"
source_hash: "ce000ec28c740d877fd20c86121f84f0023e316f0455d6ab636696532d68a4ad"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 52 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF STATE PENSIONERS.
Current law allows pensioners to be employed in a Governor-appointed position or as a temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employee, including as a substitute teacher, but only after a 6-month separation of service period if the pensioner is under age 65 and limits annual earnings by temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employees to $50,000 before an individuals earnings affect the amount of the individuals pension.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan W. Shupe — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Buckson — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-28** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** 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`
- **2025-08-20** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfa3c1d9-9869-4ee8-a0c2-6a302ba22832`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).