---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS."
description: "This bill makes changes to the qualifications for professional land surveyors. This bill also makes clear that there is no civil or criminal trespass when a professional land surveyor enters upon land in the course of preparing a survey."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 117"
citation: "Delaware HB 117 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "David L. Wilson", "Kendra Johnson", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Michael Ramone", "Ronald E. Gray", "Russell Huxtable", "Stell Parker Selby", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-06"
last_action: "2023-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c3e05e1-868a-4c24-bc32-7d9df36ebaad"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130175"
source_hash: "834b9ede98bf9c671458552f72297cc6f2bf8cf7402aa413a20a2f07c76d158f"
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 HB 117 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.

This bill makes changes to the qualifications for professional land surveyors. This bill also makes clear that there is no civil or criminal trespass when a professional land surveyor enters upon land in the course of preparing a survey.

## 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=130175&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB117)
2. **HA 3 to HB 117** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=130341&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-06** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 117 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-04-25** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-09** Amendment HA 2 to HB 117 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-05-09** Amendment HA 1 to HB 117 - Stricken in House
- **2023-05-09** Amendment HA 2 to HB 117 - Stricken in House
- **2023-05-09** Amendment HA 3 to HB 117 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-09** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-05-09** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2023-07-25** 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/2c3e05e1-868a-4c24-bc32-7d9df36ebaad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).