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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR DEPARTMENT OF LABOR EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUBCONTRACTORS WITH ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION."
description: "This Act expands the statute for obtaining criminal background checks from just employees and contractors within the Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance who have access to federal tax information, to all new hires, transfers, promotions, contractors, subcontractors, and volunteers of the following departments, divisions, and offices:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 20"
citation: "Delaware HB 20 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Dave G. Lawson", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5136b0c-b5cd-404e-a764-49b58f09859f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141852"
source_hash: "47c2f33cd31c5c870d4223c9c32c08eb967140ff28156b6c3cd450e33af719d2"
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 20 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR DEPARTMENT OF LABOR EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUBCONTRACTORS WITH ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION.
This Act expands the statute for obtaining criminal background checks from just employees and contractors within the Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insurance who have access to federal tax information, to all new hires, transfers, promotions, contractors, subcontractors, and volunteers of the following departments, divisions, and offices:
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **360** (pass) · lower
- SM — **180** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-30** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-24** 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/a5136b0c-b5cd-404e-a764-49b58f09859f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).