---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRASH CONTAINERS ON HIGHWAYS."
description: "This Act provides all law-enforcement officers the authority to enforce the existing labeling requirements for dumpsters that are in a public road or parking lot."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 32"
citation: "Delaware HB 32 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Sean Matthews"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-11"
last_action: "2021-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13d96ae4-8be4-4aa9-8463-531ba49fbd90"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48214"
source_hash: "aded314466a60390b6a5f4d89f4d17e01ac391c9d15bb35f1e8ffbfb1bcd4975"
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 32 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRASH CONTAINERS ON HIGHWAYS.

This Act provides all law-enforcement officers the authority to enforce the existing labeling requirements for dumpsters that are in a public road or parking lot.

## 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=48214&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB32)
2. **HA 1 to HB 32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=58542&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-11** Introduced and Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-03-31** Amendment HA 1 to HB 32 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-01** Amendment HA 1 to HB 32 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-01** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-15** 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/13d96ae4-8be4-4aa9-8463-531ba49fbd90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).