---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINFISHING IN TIDAL WATERS."
description: "This bill streamlines the process by which the Department may incorporate into its regulations tidal finfish management measures that have been adopted and specified in a regional or federal fisheries management plan or rule. This bill also eliminates procedures for the promulgation of tidal finfish regulations that the Delaware Administrative Procedures Act has rendered obsolete."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 6"
citation: "Delaware HB 6 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-12"
last_action: "2019-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05528c6e-cc77-4b21-82b8-f005290630d2"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47567"
source_hash: "76ebf7ce36761f23c946aca29724f0b92d14c4e85f8e35fdc19fc10bd88448fa"
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 6 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINFISHING IN TIDAL WATERS.

This bill streamlines the process by which the Department may incorporate into its regulations tidal finfish management measures that have been adopted and specified in a regional or federal fisheries management plan or rule. This bill also eliminates procedures for the promulgation of tidal finfish regulations that the Delaware Administrative Procedures Act has rendered obsolete.

## 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=47567&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB6)
2. **HA 1 to HB 6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47790&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-12** Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 6 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-26** Amendment HA 1 to HB 6 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `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/05528c6e-cc77-4b21-82b8-f005290630d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).