---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO RENAME THE BLACKBIRD STATE FOREST'S MEADOWS TRACT THE \"ENNIS TRACT\" IN HONOR OF SENATOR BRUCE C. ENNIS."
description: "This Act renames the Blackbird State Forest’s Meadows Tract the “Ennis Tract” in honor of Senator Bruce C. Ennis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 328"
citation: "Delaware SB 328 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Gerald W. Hocker", "Jeffrey N. Spiegelman", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-16"
last_action: "2022-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91b4762a-b4e4-4d8d-b535-b5f5b371aa5c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129721"
source_hash: "6db0f116a5508eb0c55bd3081ef37830ef86d3fa468d0f61b92deba3ae50ffbe"
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 328 (151) — AN ACT TO RENAME THE BLACKBIRD STATE FOREST'S MEADOWS TRACT THE "ENNIS TRACT" IN HONOR OF SENATOR BRUCE C. ENNIS.

This Act renames the Blackbird State Forest’s Meadows Tract the “Ennis Tract” in honor of Senator Bruce C. Ennis.

## 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=129721&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB328)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — primary (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-06-16** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2022-06-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-17** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-09-20** 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/91b4762a-b4e4-4d8d-b535-b5f5b371aa5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).