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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCARDING YARD WASTE ON A HIGHWAY."
+description: "This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines “yard waste”."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 47"
+citation: "Delaware SB 47 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dave G. Lawson", "Shannon Morris"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-12"
+last_action: "2021-09-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9972a3c-ecd0-4785-a65d-5f50b2f10ea5"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48379"
+source_hash: "6b1bb1700d98f43292a1d3827611160235b95f932555be25f4ac932f114b97fd"
+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 47 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCARDING YARD WASTE ON A HIGHWAY.
+
+This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines “yard 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=48379&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB47)
+2. **SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 47** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48456&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
+- Shannon Morris — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-12** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 47, and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-12** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-03-16** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-03-17** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-25** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2021-09-30** 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/f9972a3c-ecd0-4785-a65d-5f50b2f10ea5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+