---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PESTICIDES."
description: "This Act allows the Department of Agriculture to increase the biennial pesticide registration fee, which currently may not exceed $140, up to a maximum fee of $500. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 221"
citation: "Delaware HB 221 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Russell Huxtable", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-18"
last_action: "2026-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d6166d9-d186-44ff-8065-87307db909d4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142579"
source_hash: "94cd5241e17d7fba8d80d191e9c6e6d99283610572d3d4ef72dcadef20e5a8d5"
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 221 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PESTICIDES.

This Act allows the Department of Agriculture to increase the biennial pesticide registration fee, which currently may not exceed $140, up to a maximum fee of $500. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- 3/5 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-18** Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-01-20** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-11** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 7 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-04-23** 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/7d6166d9-d186-44ff-8065-87307db909d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).