August 14, 2025 quoted from Delaware’s .gov website:
Today, Governor Matt Meyer signed House Bill 1 creating a Delaware Department of Veterans Affairs, elevating veterans’ services to a cabinet‑level agency – an historic step toward strengthening how Delaware serves its veteran community. With this action, Delaware will soon have a Secretary of Veterans Affairs at the table of state leadership ensuring the voices, needs, and experiences of veterans are represented at the highest levels of government.
“If you go out and fight for your country and your neighbor when you return home you should have the best services and the right people the strongest possible advocate in state government,” said Governor Meyer. “Today we are elevating their voices to the cabinet level, empowering a Secretary of Veterans Affairs, guided by lived experience, to lead. This is not a gesture, it’s a guarantee to honor those who protected us.”
The legislation was carried by bipartisan sponsors in both chambers and received unanimous House and Senate approval.