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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AN ANIMAL ABUSE OFFENDER LIST."
+description: "This Act establishes an animal abuse offender list which will be maintained by the Office of Animal Welfare. The list will be available to the public on the Office of Animal Welfare’s website. The list will contain information regarding adult individuals who are convicted of an animal abuse offense to assist the public and animal agencies in identifying individuals who present a risk to animal welfare. This Act prohibits animal shelters from approving pet adoptions to individuals who are on the animal abuse offender list."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "SB 174"
+citation: "Delaware SB 174 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "David L. Wilson", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-06-05"
+last_action: "2025-08-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9c28833-dbad-4b23-9d95-6f6296d12c35"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142428"
+source_hash: "3a13ba6935a6bd3b54122748c0e427a53bc9fb37fe9caa46594ffb16ea2249ec"
+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 174 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AN ANIMAL ABUSE OFFENDER LIST.
+
+This Act establishes an animal abuse offender list which will be maintained by the Office of Animal Welfare. The list will be available to the public on the Office of Animal Welfare’s website. The list will contain information regarding adult individuals who are convicted of an animal abuse offense to assist the public and animal agencies in identifying individuals who present a risk to animal welfare. This Act prohibits animal shelters from approving pet adoptions to individuals who are on the animal abuse offender list.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HA 2 to SB 174** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142669&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 174** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142523&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **15–3** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **38–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2025-06-12** Amendment SA 1 to SB 174 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 3 NO 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2025-06-12** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 13 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-30** Amendment HA 1 to SB 174 - Stricken in House
+- **2025-06-30** Amendment HA 2 to SB 174 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT `passage`
+- **2025-06-30** Suspension of Rules in Senate
+- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
+- **2025-08-21** 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/c9c28833-dbad-4b23-9d95-6f6296d12c35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+