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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AGRICULTURE."
+description: "This Bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture to utilize any laboratory designated by the Department of Agriculture rather than only the State Chemist to analyze samples of foods, dairy and other feeds and insecticides, and to cooperate with the United States Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies in the enforcement of the laws related to foods, dairy and other feeds, and insecticides."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 430"
+citation: "Delaware HB 430 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "William J. Carson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-05-30"
+last_action: "2018-09-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c92de11-d4dd-41f1-8c3a-83e369a21712"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26719"
+source_hash: "bebf790853108969940f8789d99dfcbfefd16598956f4afc43a9be27897f62cc"
+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 430 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.
+
+This Bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture to utilize any laboratory designated by the Department of Agriculture rather than only the State Chemist to analyze samples of foods, dairy and other feeds and insecticides, and to cooperate with the United States Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies in the enforcement of the laws related to foods, dairy and other feeds, and insecticides.
+
+## 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=26719&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB430)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3/5 — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
+- William J. Carson — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-30** Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2018-06-26** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-28** Rules Suspended in Senate
+- **2018-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2018-09-13** 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/7c92de11-d4dd-41f1-8c3a-83e369a21712`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+