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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE AND CHAPTER 168 OF VOLUME 84 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF RESEARCH."
description: "This Act changes the name of the Division of Research to the \"Division of Legislative Services\" (Division) to more fully reflect the tasks that the Division performs. In addition to legislative research, the Division's tasks include drafting bills, editing the Delaware Code, staffing task forces, printing bills and other materials for the General Assembly, providing constituent and legislator services through the Legislative Information Office, and publishing the Register of Regulations and Administrative Code."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 288"
citation: "Delaware HB 288 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Michael Ramone", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebdb4d98-88b1-4049-8930-466711a8fbfd"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140852"
source_hash: "de0c0cb3785452cecf835f9e0db7a961cdfd0a415c16a85cbf14edfe0afedea3"
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 288 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE AND CHAPTER 168 OF VOLUME 84 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF RESEARCH.
This Act changes the name of the Division of Research to the "Division of Legislative Services" (Division) to more fully reflect the tasks that the Division performs. In addition to legislative research, the Division's tasks include drafting bills, editing the Delaware Code, staffing task forces, printing bills and other materials for the General Assembly, providing constituent and legislator services through the Legislative Information Office, and publishing the Register of Regulations and Administrative Code.
## 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=140852&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB288)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-17** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-04-30** 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/ebdb4d98-88b1-4049-8930-466711a8fbfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).