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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES."
description: "This Bill adds the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources and the Executive Director of Delaware CLASI or their designees to the Employment First Oversight Commission (hereinafter “EFOC”). The Bill also allows non-Delaware residents who work in Delaware for an employment agency that advocates or represents disabled individuals to participate on the EFOC. Finally, the Bill eliminates the prohibition on appointment of state employees to the EFOC under § 745 (1)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 370"
citation: "Delaware HB 370 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Harris B. McDowell", "Nicole Poore"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-12"
last_action: "2018-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c83dfcb-7d06-4bdb-b076-37303f418fd5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26477"
source_hash: "48059e03573b5e5acae17ca7694152f487bd48762dca0ac9849a5bed611fff82"
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 HB 370 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.
This Bill adds the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources and the Executive Director of Delaware CLASI or their designees to the Employment First Oversight Commission (hereinafter “EFOC”). The Bill also allows non-Delaware residents who work in Delaware for an employment agency that advocates or represents disabled individuals to participate on the EFOC. Finally, the Bill eliminates the prohibition on appointment of state employees to the EFOC under § 745 (1).
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26477&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB370)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-04-12** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-26** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-07-01** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2018-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-09-04** 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/5c83dfcb-7d06-4bdb-b076-37303f418fd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).