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AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.

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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
2026-05-06
Official status
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.

What This Bill Does

  • AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.
  • Like Senate Bill No.
  • 5, this Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to ensure that every Delawarean is afforded reproductive freedom.
  • This Act differs from Senate Bill No.

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. 2026-05-06 Delaware General Assembly

    Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits

  2. 2025-03-12 Delaware General Assembly

    Assigned to Administration Committee in House

  3. 2025-03-11 Delaware General Assembly

    Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits

  4. 2025-03-11 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  5. 2025-03-11 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill

  6. 2025-03-11 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 15 NO

  7. 2025-03-11 Delaware General Assembly

    Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 7 YES 14 NO

  8. 2025-03-11 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO

  9. 2025-03-06 Delaware General Assembly

    Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 5, and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate

Official Summary Text

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.
Like Senate Bill No. 5, this Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to ensure that every Delawarean is afforded reproductive freedom.

This Act differs from Senate Bill No. 5 by making the following clarifications:
(1) That an individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom relating to that individual’s pregnancy.
(2) That the standard of medical judgment is a “good-faith medical judgment” rather than a “professional judgment”.
(3) That the health care professional making the good-faith medical judgment is the “treating attending health care professional” rather than the “attending health care professional”.

Amending the Delaware Constitution requires not only the passing of the changes in this Act, but also passage of the same changes after the next general election by the next General Assembly.

This Act requires a greater than majority vote for passage because § 1 of Article XVI of the Delaware Constitution requires the affirmative vot