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HB239 • 2025

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE II OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE II OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Spiegelman
Last action
2026-03-18
Official status
House Administration 12/18/25
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE II OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE II OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.

What This Bill Does

  • AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE II OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.
  • This is the First Leg Constitutional Amendment to require a three-fifths vote to suspend rules.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-18 Delaware General Assembly

    Motion to Release Failed

  2. 2025-12-18 Delaware General Assembly

    Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House

Official Summary Text

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE II OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.
This is the First Leg Constitutional Amendment to require a three-fifths vote to suspend rules.

Current Bill Text

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SPONSOR:

Rep. Spiegelman & Sen. Buckson

Reps. Michael Smith, Yearick; Sens. Hocker, Wilson

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 239

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF ARTICLE II OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (Two-thirds of all members elected to each house thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. Amend Section 9 of Article II of the Delaware Constitution by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 9. Rules; punishment and expulsion of members; scope of powers.

Section 9. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings,

provided, however, no rule or rules may be suspended without the concurrence of three-fifths of all members elected to the particular house desiring to suspend a rule or rules. Each House may

punish any of its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected thereto expel a member, and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the Legislature of a free and independent State.

SYNOPSIS

This is the First Leg Constitutional Amendment to require a three-fifths vote to suspend rules.