---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MAINTENANCE OF FOR-PROFIT CEMETERIES."
description: "This Act empowers each county to create regulations for the maintenance of for-profit cemeteries and to impose penalties upon those who do not abide by the maintenance regulations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 476"
citation: "Delaware HB 476 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian J. Bushweller", "Dave G. Lawson", "Trey Charles Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-20"
last_action: "2018-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e9e00f6-9a3a-400b-9934-a5d4aa54c912"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26921"
source_hash: "bb99f891c3d2be1eeecf50b690555641d54c8062f30204f06693f041e678ad11"
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 476 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MAINTENANCE OF FOR-PROFIT CEMETERIES.

This Act empowers each county to create regulations for the maintenance of for-profit cemeteries and to impose penalties upon those who do not abide by the maintenance regulations.

## 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=26921&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB476)

## Votes

- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-20** Introduced and Assigned to Housing & Community Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** Re-Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES `passage`
- **2018-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2018-08-28** 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/6e9e00f6-9a3a-400b-9934-a5d4aa54c912`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).