---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS."
description: "This Act makes it a crime to fly an unmanned aircraft system to do any of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 328"
citation: "Delaware HB 328 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "John L. Mitchell", "John Walsh", "Michael Ramone"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0bdf746-4140-4118-9619-71953fbcfacb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26331"
source_hash: "d4d7be94861968909b28404ec49e05254edf3432016ac2c693710cc5e1e72c63"
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 328 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS.

This Act makes it a crime to fly an unmanned aircraft system to do any of the following:

## 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=26331&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB328)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- John Walsh — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-01** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-20** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-03-20** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-12** 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/a0bdf746-4140-4118-9619-71953fbcfacb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).