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HB115 • 2025

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON WEIGHT, HEIGHT, OR BODY SIZE.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON WEIGHT, HEIGHT, OR BODY SIZE.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

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Last action
2025-05-14
Official status
Motion to Release Failed
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Law Against Weight, Height, or Body Size Discrimination

This act stops people from being treated unfairly because of their weight, height, or body size in areas like transportation, businesses open to the public, housing, buying and selling things, work, picking juries, education, and government services.

What This Bill Does

  • Adds rules to stop discrimination based on a person's weight, height, or body size.
  • Applies these rules to transportation, businesses open to the public, housing, commerce and trade, employment, jury selection, education, and public administration.
  • Fixes small mistakes in existing laws to make them follow Delaware’s guide for writing new laws.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who might face discrimination because of their weight, height, or body size.
  • Businesses that provide transportation, housing, education, and other services open to the public.
  • Employers and schools where people work or study.

Terms To Know

Discrimination
Treating someone unfairly because of a characteristic they have.
Public accommodation
A place that is open to the public, like restaurants or stores.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what will happen if people break these rules.
  • It's unclear how this law will be enforced and who will make sure it is followed.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-14 Delaware General Assembly

    Motion to Release Failed

  2. 2025-04-08 Delaware General Assembly

    Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House

Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON WEIGHT, HEIGHT, OR BODY SIZE.
This Act prohibits discrimination based on weight, height, or body size in transportation, public accommodation, housing, commerce and trade, employment, jury selection, education, and public administration.
This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.