---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS."
description: "This bill eliminates the requirement under several provisions of Title 24 that applicants for professional licenses as well as adult entertainment establishments submit notarized applications. This bill would allow for a policy change at the Division of Professional Regulation to remove the notarization requirement for all licensing applications, which will make the application process more economically and logistically available."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 43"
citation: "Delaware HB 43 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Raymond Seigfried", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95eaca8c-1f0a-466a-b4bd-ef31f64c8349"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37103"
source_hash: "243ffc11d65004e71909ef87c921b6da7c6f1b9d5f9e515a15b91d1228bcbf4e"
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 43 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.

This bill eliminates the requirement under several provisions of Title 24 that applicants for professional licenses as well as adult entertainment establishments submit notarized applications. This bill would allow for a policy change at the Division of Professional Regulation to remove the notarization requirement for all licensing applications, which will make the application process more economically and logistically available.

## 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=37103&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB43)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Raymond Seigfried — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-24** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-04-09** 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/95eaca8c-1f0a-466a-b4bd-ef31f64c8349`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).