---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE."
description: "This Bill is a housekeeping measure to correct the name of the Delaware Technical and Community College as was intended in earlier legislation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 172"
citation: "Delaware SB 172 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Harris B. McDowell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-20"
last_action: "2019-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b09b1af1-92e3-4293-89c5-212caf6935e8"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47803"
source_hash: "d6c726c106f622b001efd6f9ec31937bd17558e328912923918014c1228f3507"
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 172 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DELAWARE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

This Bill is a housekeeping measure to correct the name of the Delaware Technical and Community College as was intended in earlier legislation.

## 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=47803&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB172)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-20** Introduced and Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-01** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2019-07-01** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-23** 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/b09b1af1-92e3-4293-89c5-212caf6935e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).