---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PAWNBROKERS, SECONDHAND DEALERS AND SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS."
description: "This Act provides clearer language concerning license requirements, gives licensees a much clearer understanding of prohibited acts, discipline and penalties; and grants the ability of the Professional Licensing Section to promulgate regulations, and additional powers needed to oversee this chapter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 73"
citation: "Delaware SB 73 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "John L. Mitchell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-27"
last_action: "2017-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/280f3967-302f-406f-a9e6-1a430913fdf9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25692"
source_hash: "0a38e68ba99d0a2ccd9c02e6d68fff22dd4eb6c562bfe520d74331883ce2e61e"
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 73 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PAWNBROKERS, SECONDHAND DEALERS AND SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS.

This Act provides clearer language concerning license requirements, gives licensees a much clearer understanding of prohibited acts, discipline and penalties; and grants the ability of the Professional Licensing Section to promulgate regulations, and additional powers needed to oversee this chapter.

## 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=25692&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB73)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-27** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-10** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-01** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2017-07-21** 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/280f3967-302f-406f-a9e6-1a430913fdf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).