---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ARREST FOR VIOLATION - LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS CONTAINER."
description: "This amendment repeals Title 16 § 7204 in its entirety. This particular section prescribes a practice that is typically unused and handled through a traditional warrant process by charging a previous section of this chapter brought by a law enforcement officer. Additionally, the act of recovering a container possessed by someone other than the owner is more appropriately handled through the civil replevin process."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 56"
citation: "Delaware HB 56 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Stephen Smyk", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-18"
last_action: "2021-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/142cdbb7-dab8-4ee2-9c72-ec1cdd14b41e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48232"
source_hash: "6caeb7fd0866f4d3761d59242595f2375a434c1ff5a248777b37e4beb539386f"
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 56 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ARREST FOR VIOLATION - LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS CONTAINER.

This amendment repeals Title 16 § 7204 in its entirety. This particular section prescribes a practice that is typically unused and handled through a traditional warrant process by charging a previous section of this chapter brought by a law enforcement officer. Additionally, the act of recovering a container possessed by someone other than the owner is more appropriately handled through the civil replevin process.

## 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=48232&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB56)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-18** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-03-19** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-17** 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/142cdbb7-dab8-4ee2-9c72-ec1cdd14b41e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).