---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE CLEANUP ACT."
description: "This Act results from the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act Fund (“HSCA Fund”). Section 1 of the Act, which will take effect on January 1, 2021, provides that the Fund's 15% cap on administrative costs expenditures must be based on the average of the moneys deposited into the Fund over a period of the previous 10 fiscal years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 113"
citation: "Delaware SB 113 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Bentz", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-29"
last_action: "2019-08-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8afef97a-a457-4eb0-8cb4-729e4c8c860a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47517"
source_hash: "007ae2f67126016860c461656a4a8ee739b63c8a59d38e5a3e7e2d6b09964b8f"
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 113 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE CLEANUP ACT.

This Act results from the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act Fund (“HSCA Fund”). Section 1 of the Act, which will take effect on January 1, 2021, provides that the Fund's 15% cap on administrative costs expenditures must be based on the average of the moneys deposited into the Fund over a period of the previous 10 fiscal years.

## 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=47517&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB113)
2. **SA 1 to SB 113** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47713&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David Bentz — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-29** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-13** Amendment SA 1 to SB 113 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-19** Amendment SA 1 to SB 113 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-20** Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-08-12** 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/8afef97a-a457-4eb0-8cb4-729e4c8c860a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).