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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A CERTAIN USE OF A HANDGUN."
+description: "This bill allows a hunter to use a handgun in lieu of a shotgun on farms permitted by DNREC through their Deer depredation programs to reduce agricultural crop damage."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "SB 31"
+citation: "Delaware SB 31 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["F. Gary Simpson", "William R. Outten"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-03-16"
+last_action: "2018-04-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ccfbc029-a5e6-4ac1-94fb-186c3a63fad5"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25461"
+source_hash: "67f010b4ede499503c3632bc1207b9311c32604aaebe8c929aa3517f641281e0"
+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 SB 31 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A CERTAIN USE OF A HANDGUN.
+
+This bill allows a hunter to use a handgun in lieu of a shotgun on farms permitted by DNREC through their Deer depredation programs to reduce agricultural crop damage.
+
+## 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=25461&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB31)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **18–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- F. Gary Simpson — primary (person)
+- William R. Outten — primary (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-03-16** Introduced and Assigned to Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Amendment SA 1 to SB 31 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-04-06** Amendment SA 1 to SB 31 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-04-13** Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-10** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2018-04-17** 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/ccfbc029-a5e6-4ac1-94fb-186c3a63fad5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+