---
type: "Bill"
title: "HONORING BOYD AND LIANE SORENSON BY DESIGNATING THE NEW VALLEY ROAD PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY BETWEEN EVANSON ROAD AND LANTANA SQUARE AS \"SORENSON'S WAY\"."
description: "This resolution honors Boyd and Liane Sorenson by designating the new Valley Road Pedestrian Pathway between Evanson Road and Lantana Square as \"Sorenson's Way\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HJR 11"
citation: "Delaware HJR 11 (149)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deborah Hudson", "Gregory F. Lavelle", "Joseph E. Miro", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-12"
last_action: "2018-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c2844f1-23e0-4b4a-8cfc-a09c95538397"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26467"
source_hash: "2cbf0686dc752c6b5d61347464d8f02b52e44ab8d90c92c73cfe84e5b822d4ce"
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 HJR 11 (149) — HONORING BOYD AND LIANE SORENSON BY DESIGNATING THE NEW VALLEY ROAD PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY BETWEEN EVANSON ROAD AND LANTANA SQUARE AS "SORENSON'S WAY".

This resolution honors Boyd and Liane Sorenson by designating the new Valley Road Pedestrian Pathway between Evanson Road and Lantana Square as "Sorenson's Way".

## 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=26467&legislationTypeId=4&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HJR11)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Deborah Hudson — primary (person)
- Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-12** Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-04-29** Assigned to Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-05-24** 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/0c2844f1-23e0-4b4a-8cfc-a09c95538397`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).