---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONS BY"
description: "This Act increases the penalty for violations of the Board of Electrical Examiners licensing regulations in situations involving fraud and material deception, or where a person has performed electrical work in a category for which the practitioner is not licensed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 48"
citation: "Delaware SB 48 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2610c67f-e0f7-4792-af56-94349368869c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48337"
source_hash: "33c810d5f49f78bc3cd3317098d82cdfaab61dd731c09065591e9daa92133692"
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 48 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONS BY

This Act increases the penalty for violations of the Board of Electrical Examiners licensing regulations in situations involving fraud and material deception, or where a person has performed electrical work in a category for which the practitioner is not licensed.

## 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=48337&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB48)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 48, and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 6 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-09-30** 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/2610c67f-e0f7-4792-af56-94349368869c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).