Delaware General Assembly

Senate Health & Social Services 1/29/25

Awaiting consideration in Committee

1/29/25

Townsend

Sen. Lockman, Pinkney
Reps. Minor-Brown, Heffernan, K. Johnson, Griffith, Bush

Sen. Hansen, Hoffner, Huxtable, Paradee, Poore, Sokola, Sturgeon, Walsh
Reps. Gorman, S. Moore, Neal, Phillips, Romer

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

This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to ensure that every Delawarean is afforded reproductive freedom. 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 vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly to amend the Delaware Constitution.

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A First Leg amendment must be approved by the next General Assembly to become part of the Constitution. A Second Leg amendment becomes part of the Constitution upon passage of both Chambers of the subsequent General Assembly.

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