Delaware Senate Bill 35 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: Passed on October 7 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-10-07 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Like Senate Bill No. 35, this Act defines specific violations of wage payment and collection laws under Chapter 11 of Title 19 as wage theft, providing specific penalties for these violations, and creates a new criminal offense of wage theft, with a mechanism for the Department of Labor to refer completed investigations to the Department of Justice for prosecution. Clearly defining wage theft protects Delaware workers and Delaware taxpayers from employers who pay their employees under the table because this practice results in lost tax revenue to this State and exposes employees to personal risk in the areas of unemployment compensation and workplace injuries. The civil penalties collected for violations that are wage theft must be used for the enforcement of wage payment and collection laws under Chapter 11 of Title 19 and prosecution of the offense of wage theft under § 841D of Title 11.

An Act To Amend Title 11 And Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Labor.

Sen. Jack Walsh [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]
Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]
Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Sean Matthews [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]
Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]

2022-06-30 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 32 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-06-09 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 17 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-10-07		Signed by Governor
2022-06-30		Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 9 NO
2022-06-23		Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
2022-06-21		Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House
2022-06-21		Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
2022-06-10		Assigned to Labor Committee in House
2022-06-09		Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 3 NO 1 ABSENT
2022-06-09		Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
2022-06-09		Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2022-06-09		was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 35 and Laid on Table

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