Delaware

Delaware: bills from both sides, with enacted laws, hearings, court cases and the legislators who sponsor the bills.

Bills

36 bills: 7 Anti-LGBTQ+, 29 Pro-LGBTQ+. 13 are enacted (0 Anti-LGBTQ+, 13 Pro-LGBTQ+). “Enacted” is the status this tracker records for the bill.

Bills by status
StatusBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Failed20614
Enacted13013
Pending312

Most recent bills

All 36 bills

Titles, summaries and tags are on each bill's page. The Bills list shows them for the bills of Delaware: all, Anti-LGBTQ+ or Pro-LGBTQ+.

Bills by year

Introduced each year

Bills introduced each year in Delaware, by sideColumns for each year from 2009 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.024682009: 1 Anti-LGBTQ+, 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2010: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2011: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2012: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2013: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2018: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2020: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2021: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2022: 2 Anti-LGBTQ+2023: 5 Pro-LGBTQ+2024: 2 Anti-LGBTQ+, 6 Pro-LGBTQ+2025: 1 Anti-LGBTQ+, 3 Pro-LGBTQ+2026: 1 Anti-LGBTQ+, 2 Pro-LGBTQ+201020122014201620182020202220242026Bills introduced each year in Delaware, by sideColumns for each year from 2009 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.02468201120142017202020232026

Enacted, by the year introduced

Enacted bills in Delaware by the year they were introduced, by sideColumns for each year from 2009 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.0122009: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2011: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2012: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2013: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2018: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2021: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2023: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2024: 2 Pro-LGBTQ+2025: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+2026: 1 Pro-LGBTQ+201020122014201620182020202220242026Enacted bills in Delaware by the year they were introduced, by sideColumns for each year from 2009 to 2026. The numbers are in the table below the chart.012201120142017202020232026
  • Anti-LGBTQ+
  • Pro-LGBTQ+

A bill is counted in the year of its session, and an enacted bill in the year it was introduced. A year with no bill in the data has no column.

Show the numbers
Bills introduced and enacted each year
YearIntroducedIntroduced, Anti-LGBTQ+Introduced, Pro-LGBTQ+EnactedEnacted, Anti-LGBTQ+Enacted, Pro-LGBTQ+
2026312101
2025413101
2024826202
2023505202
2022220000
2021202101
2020202000
2018202101
2013202202
2012101101
2011101101
2010202000
2009211101

Topics and tags

A bill can have more than one topic or tag, so the rows add up to more than the number of bills.

Topics

Bills by topic
TopicBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Bathrooms & facilities101
Sports participation440
Youth gender-affirming care422
Adult gender-affirming care202
Insurance coverage514
Schools & curriculum202
Marriage, family & custody413
Nondiscrimination protections12012
Hate crimes505
Conversion therapy101
Symbolic resolutions & recognition808
Government process, funding & data101

Tags

The most-used tags
TagBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Holiday/Recognition808
Broad Nondiscrimination606
Employment Nondiscrimination505
Hate Crime Classification404
Housing Nondiscrimination404
Sports Ban: K12440
Sports Ban: SWSA440
Insurance Nondiscrimination303
Public Accommodations Nondiscrimination303
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors220
Provider Protections202
Sports Ban: Colleges220
Show the other 14 tags
The other tags
TagBillsAnti-LGBTQ+Pro-LGBTQ+
Anti-Bullying101
Civil Unions101
Civil Unions Ban110
Conversion Therapy Ban101
Domestic Partner Nondiscrimination101
Education Nondiscrimination101
End Trans Panic Defense101
Gender Affirming Care Ban: Insurance Prohibition110
Gender Affirming Care Ban: SAFE Act110
Inclusive Bathrooms101
Insurance nondiscrimination101
Marriage Equality101
Privacy: Data Protection101
Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Constitutional Amendment110

Hearings

No hearings are listed for this jurisdiction.

Legislators

The sponsors of the bills listed here, with the number of those bills each one sponsors.

Legislators, by the number of the listed bills they sponsor
NamePartyRoleDistrictBills sponsored
David SokolaDSenatorSD-00820
Debra HeffernanDRepresentativeHD-00618
Eric MorrisonDRepresentativeHD-02716
DeShanna NealDRepresentativeHD-01314
Paul BaumbachDRepresentativeHD-02314
Bryan TownsendDSenatorSD-01112
Kyle GayDSenatorSD-00511
Cyndie RomerDRepresentativeHD-02510
Edward OsienskiDRepresentativeHD-02410
John KowalkoDRepresentativeHD-02510

All 118 legislators

Party as recorded: D Democratic, R Republican, I Independent; other codes are shown as recorded.

Court cases

No court cases are listed for this jurisdiction.

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Bill data comes from LegiScan, licensed CC BY 4.0 and used here in modified form. Outcome coding, category tags and the summaries are the Trans Data Initiative team's, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 with credit.