---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES."
description: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 80"
citation: "Delaware SB 80 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harris B. McDowell", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Nicole Poore", "Trey Charles Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-16"
last_action: "2018-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/959b0a3b-fcea-4a55-869c-87c5ff0d187c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25781"
source_hash: "53ce237ceb8a8ff5c981b57f53c036ec5ab98f3ba9e0374d4dda13aa266d81ac"
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 80 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

## 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=25781&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **37–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-16** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 80, and Assigned to Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-19** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-25** Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-26** Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-05-03** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-03** Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-03** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-05-08** Assigned to Energy Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** Reported Out of Committee (Energy) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-30** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-07** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Stricken in House
- **2018-06-07** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 NO `passage`
- **2018-06-14** 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/959b0a3b-fcea-4a55-869c-87c5ff0d187c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).