Late last week, the state Senate voted to pass an amended version of SB 21. If Delaware's House of Representatives follows suit, in a vote expected as soon as Thursday, the bill would head to the governor's desk to be signed into law.
That could remove a major overhang for Zuckerberg and Meta.
Meta has been the subject of "books and records" investigations in Delaware in recent months, according to two people directly involved in the matter who asked not to be named in order to discuss nonpublic investigations. Under current law, shareholders behind those probes could file cases alleging that Zuckerberg or other Meta directors caused billions of dollars in damages, according to the people and Delaware records viewed by CNBC.