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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS."
+description: "This bill makes changes to the Delaware Professional Engineers' licensing chapter to:"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 197"
+citation: "Delaware HB 197 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Ronald E. Gray"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-06-01"
+last_action: "2017-09-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b3a5784-e0fc-4ea3-a5d9-bdd4ac10f1cd"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25852"
+source_hash: "6d9cb3304700697832f488905b7cdd579051b3435dcf8b7d76f04b891be5a6c4"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 197 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.
+
+This bill makes changes to the Delaware Professional Engineers' licensing chapter to:
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25852&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB197)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David B. McBride — primary (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
+- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2017-06-23** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2017-07-02** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-09-29** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b3a5784-e0fc-4ea3-a5d9-bdd4ac10f1cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+