republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-80.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PUBLIC EXPRESSION PROTECTION ACT.	This Act adopts the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act ("the Act") authored by the Uniform Law Commission. The Uniform Law Commission “provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law.” The Act was adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in October 2020 and has been adopted in 10 states, including New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is currently pending in 10 states.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 80	Delaware SB 80 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Cyndie Romer Daniel B. Short David L. Wilson David P. Sokola John "Jack" Walsh Mara Gorman Nicole Poore Russell Huxtable Spiros Mantzavinos	1	12	3	2025-03-25	2025-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/75aaddc4-4261-47f5-977b-fc6618d7df33	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142002	bc24e3acc3331914c7829b988dfbea2187d2d0d7ec48f38be0673cc754a980fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 80 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PUBLIC EXPRESSION PROTECTION ACT.

This Act adopts the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act ("the Act") authored by the Uniform Law Commission. The Uniform Law Commission “provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law.” The Act was adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in October 2020 and has been adopted in 10 states, including New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is currently pending in 10 states.

Version chain

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

1. HA 2 to SB 80 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Mara Gorman — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-25 Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-14 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2025-05-15 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-18 Amendment HA 1 to SB 80 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-25 Amendment HA 2 to SB 80 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-25 Amendment HA 1 to SB 80 - Stricken in House
• 2025-06-25 Amendment HA 2 to SB 80 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-06-25 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-09-15 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75aaddc4-4261-47f5-977b-fc6618d7df33. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).