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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DESIGNATION OF A STATE SEA TURTLE."
+description: "This bill designates the Loggerhead Turtle as the official sea turtle for the State of Delaware."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 303"
+citation: "Delaware SB 303 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Stephanie L. Hansen", "Stephen Smyk"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-06-02"
+last_action: "2022-07-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f8e4318-7c0c-4724-aa68-cc0d427c2d56"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109568"
+source_hash: "1581eff5b4342e71cc67aea6a8c63fc834bffea0053da2d2b600a1a40d281641"
+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 303 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DESIGNATION OF A STATE SEA TURTLE.
+
+This bill designates the Loggerhead Turtle as the official sea turtle for the State of Delaware.
+
+## 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=109568&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB303)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Environment & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Environment & Energy) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-06-10** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-14** Re-Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-16** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-07-27** 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/2f8e4318-7c0c-4724-aa68-cc0d427c2d56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+