---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS."
description: "This bill makes changes to the Delaware Professional Engineers' licensing chapter to:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 197"
citation: "Delaware HB 197 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Ronald E. Gray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-01"
last_action: "2017-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b3a5784-e0fc-4ea3-a5d9-bdd4ac10f1cd"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25852"
source_hash: "6d9cb3304700697832f488905b7cdd579051b3435dcf8b7d76f04b891be5a6c4"
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 197 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.

This bill makes changes to the Delaware Professional Engineers' licensing chapter to:

## 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=25852&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB197)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2017-06-23** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-02** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-09-29** 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/8b3a5784-e0fc-4ea3-a5d9-bdd4ac10f1cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).