---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION ACT."
description: "This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 182. Like Senate Bill No. 182, this act does all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 182"
citation: "Delaware SB 182 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-20"
last_action: "2023-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75fa11f5-3d78-4f7d-93fd-0c5fdb2d8eef"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140675"
source_hash: "73b5630bfcd3ae00ce54b939b13d6de7ee903eafc3a177254e589c271f4fb7de"
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 182 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION ACT.

This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 182. Like Senate Bill No. 182, this act does all of the following:

## 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=140675&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB182)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-20** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 182 `introduction`
- **2023-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-22** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2023-08-31** 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/75fa11f5-3d78-4f7d-93fd-0c5fdb2d8eef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).