---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE POLICE ACCREDITATION COMMISSION."
description: "This Act reduces the membership on the Delaware Police Accreditation Commission from 16 members to 12 members. The Act also provides that: i) the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security may not vote except to break a tie; and ii) members of the Commission may appoint a designee to serve in their stead and at their pleasure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 150"
citation: "Delaware SB 150 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Dave G. Lawson", "John L. Mitchell", "Stephen Smyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-09"
last_action: "2018-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af60c561-752c-4b4d-b8ac-21fa1bf62469"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26305"
source_hash: "1815f902e9677227772504357692e09faa7ed9e8b2a1c33343b8a621df321fdf"
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 150 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE POLICE ACCREDITATION COMMISSION.

This Act reduces the membership on the Delaware Police Accreditation Commission from 16 members to 12 members. The Act also provides that: i) the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security may not vote except to break a tie; and ii) members of the Commission may appoint a designee to serve in their stead and at their pleasure.

## 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=26305&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB150)

## Votes

- SM — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-09** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-03-28** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-25** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-07** 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/af60c561-752c-4b4d-b8ac-21fa1bf62469`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).