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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO IMPOUNDMENT OF ANIMALS."
+description: "Under this bill, when the State incurs costs for impounding an animal and the owner fails to pay the costs, the time in which ownership of the animal reverts to the State is reduced from 30 days to 15 days."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 109"
+citation: "Delaware SB 109 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sean Matthews"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-05-04"
+last_action: "2023-08-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/737cedd2-9add-4027-8955-bdfcc4024b6c"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130314"
+source_hash: "45896a02402a1fa88123b2884493bce1d35e505b61d4f0e901442f641c290771"
+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 109 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO IMPOUNDMENT OF ANIMALS.
+
+Under this bill, when the State incurs costs for impounding an animal and the owner fails to pay the costs, the time in which ownership of the animal reverts to the State is reduced from 30 days to 15 days.
+
+## 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=130314&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB109)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-05-04** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-10** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2023-05-17** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-08-24** 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/737cedd2-9add-4027-8955-bdfcc4024b6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+