US state regulation
Delaware
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Delaware - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 59/100 Top quartile
- Regulations tracked
- 4 Top quartile
- Enacted into law
- 4
- Categories regulated
- 3/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 4 enacted · 3/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Delaware is a dense, high-tracker archive: 4 tracked rows and 59/100, with 4 enacted across 3 of 5 policy areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 59/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 4
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 4
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Delaware legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Delaware's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 4 Tracked rows in archive
- 4 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 59/100 Portal tracker score
- #11 Of 51 by volume
- #10 Of 51 by tracker score
- Virginia Nearest volume peer 4 rows
- 3 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Delaware's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Delaware is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Delaware enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 2 in 2023
Policy coverage
Delaware enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Delaware's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Delaware regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Delaware's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Delaware's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
83/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- B 4 tracked
80th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- B 59/100
82th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- A 3 categories
90th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Delaware
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Delaware (FULL · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
FULL MID QUIET WORKER-LED
Virginia · FULL
Virginia tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than Delaware); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Utah · FULL
Utah tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than Delaware); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
New Jersey · FULL
New Jersey tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than Delaware); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Vermont · FULL
Vermont tracks 4 rows (more by 0 than Delaware); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Arizona (LOWER score pole)
Arizona sits near Delaware on archive volume yet stamps LOWER while this page stamps MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Delaware's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (2 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Delaware
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Delaware state-rule registry · 2025 Delaware: 4 tracked · 4 enacted · tracker 59/100 (FULL/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Delaware's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.