---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STANDARDBRED BREEDER’S PROGRAM FUND."
description: "This Act allows the Delaware Standardbred Breeder’s Fund Board to promulgate rules and regulations necessary or appropriate to implement or clarify the statutes related to the Standardbred Breeder’s Fund Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 216"
citation: "Delaware SB 216 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Daniel B. Short", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb77de13-0192-470f-981a-f48a0a810f79"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79102"
source_hash: "5c1e4be2330991d1d6988f545d96adffce9f15233552030b4bf99531af2350e3"
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 216 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STANDARDBRED BREEDER’S PROGRAM FUND.

This Act allows the Delaware Standardbred Breeder’s Fund Board to promulgate rules and regulations necessary or appropriate to implement or clarify the statutes related to the Standardbred Breeder’s Fund Program.

## 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=79102&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB216)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-04** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-10** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-14** 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/fb77de13-0192-470f-981a-f48a0a810f79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).