---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AGRICULTURE."
description: "This Act confirms that nursery stock as defined in Title 3, Chapter 13, Nurseries and Nursery Stock, includes clones and seedlings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 99"
citation: "Delaware HB 99 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04"
last_action: "2021-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27eadf2b-096b-49f3-8c15-aff27d7a80ef"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48402"
source_hash: "53c932474bcf68320e91437e60b91a9d652835b7e692b2dd8c57b8c113b9c63d"
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 99 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

This Act confirms that nursery stock as defined in Title 3, Chapter 13, Nurseries and Nursery Stock, includes clones and seedlings.

## 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=48402&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB99)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04** Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 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 Agriculture Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-03** 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/27eadf2b-096b-49f3-8c15-aff27d7a80ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).