---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONS BY"
description: "This Act increases the monetary penalties for sanctions by the Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Examiners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 51"
citation: "Delaware SB 51 (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: "2021-01-22"
last_action: "2021-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f032efae-e591-456f-9ddf-dd6bea80143d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48326"
source_hash: "e14499807e42717e2144ea8791242d47fc615386fee3b98a2c467ba3d7c0fb71"
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 51 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONS BY

This Act increases the monetary penalties for sanctions by the Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Examiners.

## 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=48326&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB51)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-22** Introduced 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/f032efae-e591-456f-9ddf-dd6bea80143d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).