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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS."
+description: "This bill eliminates the requirement under several provisions of Title 24 that applicants for professional licenses as well as adult entertainment establishments submit notarized applications. This bill would allow for a policy change at the Division of Professional Regulation to remove the notarization requirement for all licensing applications, which will make the application process more economically and logistically available."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 43"
+citation: "Delaware HB 43 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Seigfried", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-17"
+last_action: "2019-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95eaca8c-1f0a-466a-b4bd-ef31f64c8349"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37103"
+source_hash: "243ffc11d65004e71909ef87c921b6da7c6f1b9d5f9e515a15b91d1228bcbf4e"
+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 43 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.
+
+This bill eliminates the requirement under several provisions of Title 24 that applicants for professional licenses as well as adult entertainment establishments submit notarized applications. This bill would allow for a policy change at the Division of Professional Regulation to remove the notarization requirement for all licensing applications, which will make the application process more economically and logistically available.
+
+## 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=37103&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB43)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Raymond Seigfried — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
+- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-17** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2019-01-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2019-01-25** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2019-04-09** 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/95eaca8c-1f0a-466a-b4bd-ef31f64c8349`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+