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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 all references to physical paper copies of professional licenses for professions administrated by the Division of Professional Regulation. This bill would eliminate the need for the Division to print and mail over 80,000 paper licenses every two years thus cutting down on administrative and supply costs and eliminating unnecessary paper production and waste."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 44"
+citation: "Delaware HB 44 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Krista Griffith", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-17"
+last_action: "2019-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/351f0d9c-df2f-4d68-95c0-7f3908da99b0"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37104"
+source_hash: "99006ae935387e0408dcb22dc91a0d41549b0a4218eabcdf165bbeec64462d95"
+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 44 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.
+
+This bill eliminates all references to physical paper copies of professional licenses for professions administrated by the Division of Professional Regulation. This bill would eliminate the need for the Division to print and mail over 80,000 paper licenses every two years thus cutting down on administrative and supply costs and eliminating unnecessary paper production and waste.
+
+## 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=37104&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB44)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 44** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47169&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Krista Griffith — 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)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — 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`
+- **2019-03-05** Amendment HA 1 to HB 44 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-05** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2019-03-05** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `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/351f0d9c-df2f-4d68-95c0-7f3908da99b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+