---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AGRICULTURE."
description: "The purpose of the Bill is to change the requirement in the seed law for germination testing from 14 months to 9 months prior to sale."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 211"
citation: "Delaware HB 211 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-11"
last_action: "2019-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b663d1f-c8ec-45e4-a338-b0fda09ed387"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47662"
source_hash: "d6fb430723842dc0f86c250d5c9595cea1737af0c0a5fa99ff35464877a8459c"
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 211 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

The purpose of the Bill is to change the requirement in the seed law for germination testing from 14 months to 9 months prior to sale.

## 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=47662&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB211)

## Votes

- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-11** Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-18** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-18** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-17** 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/8b663d1f-c8ec-45e4-a338-b0fda09ed387`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).