---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING THE BOARD OF ELECTRICAL EXAMINERS."
description: "This Act modifies the impact of criminal history for applicants for licensure to the Board of Electrical Examiners (Board). Specifically, this Act:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "Delaware SB 43 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-18"
last_action: "2019-08-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42a1adb0-3810-4401-ba1c-f0b89ad7a5e8"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47385"
source_hash: "9db70148a6020c5e2bbdbdc81b20718978cb884442cdf4cce839934581c9edeb"
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 43 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING THE BOARD OF ELECTRICAL EXAMINERS.

This Act modifies the impact of criminal history for applicants for licensure to the Board of Electrical Examiners (Board). Specifically, this Act:

## 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=47385&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB43)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-18** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 4 Favorable `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-12** Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** 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/42a1adb0-3810-4401-ba1c-f0b89ad7a5e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).