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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COUNCIL."
description: "This Act renames the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council as the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council (Council) for the purpose of providing a clearer description of the work that the Council performs. This Act also transfers the Council from under the authority of the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to the Criminal Justice Council. DHSS's clerical staffing duty is removed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 398"
citation: "Delaware HB 398 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Nicole Poore"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-03"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/849a8990-0c6d-496d-a6d1-fddd67bf2295"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109423"
source_hash: "d29fa165cdabbe670862ed95245a1999e684b2e42245daf91220c5bbc87136f9"
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 398 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COUNCIL.
This Act renames the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council as the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council (Council) for the purpose of providing a clearer description of the work that the Council performs. This Act also transfers the Council from under the authority of the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to the Criminal Justice Council. DHSS's clerical staffing duty is removed.
## 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=109423&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB398)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-05-03** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-03** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2022-06-07** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-07** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-15** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-04** 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/849a8990-0c6d-496d-a6d1-fddd67bf2295`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).