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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY BUILDING CODES."
+description: "This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 402"
+citation: "Delaware HB 402 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean Matthews", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-05-16"
+last_action: "2024-09-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c072af57-5702-4e2d-ad05-c1ca4d9f817a"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141402"
+source_hash: "0d5349f496ff9e0211a7334061221a43887f87130ab46fb4791b878775de8a60"
+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 402 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY BUILDING CODES.
+
+This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
+
+## 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=141402&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB402)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **25–15** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-13** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 15 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-06-13** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-09-05** 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/c072af57-5702-4e2d-ad05-c1ca4d9f817a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+