---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF SEEDS."
description: "This Act updates Chapter 15 of Title 3, the regulatory provisions for seeds, by making technical and substantive revisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 304"
citation: "Delaware SB 304 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie L. Hansen", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-02"
last_action: "2022-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d199d2c9-e42e-4624-be75-e235808b482a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109571"
source_hash: "9aba7e3bd02a2d5f181aa29cc8a3bc0d86b24140149e0a33f751f527cdc70af4"
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 304 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF SEEDS.

This Act updates Chapter 15 of Title 3, the regulatory provisions for seeds, by making technical and substantive revisions.

## 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=109571&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB304)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Environment & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Environment & Energy) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-10** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-11-02** 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/d199d2c9-e42e-4624-be75-e235808b482a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).