republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-190.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COASTAL ZONE ACT.	This Act, which shall be known as the Coastal Zone Conversion Permit Act, makes changes to the Coastal Zone Act (“CZA”), which has not been significantly updated since its enactment almost a half century ago. The CZA, enacted in 1971, has enabled Delaware to preserve and protect our coastline, one of Delaware’s greatest natural resources. However, the CZA has also allowed property that has been in use by heavy industry for nearly 50 years, most suitable for similar industrial uses, to go unused unless the owner is willing to engage in the same heavy industry use or to use the property for manufacturing.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 190	Delaware HB 190 (149)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Debra Heffernan Edward S. Osienski Ronald E. Gray	1	20	2	2017-05-18	2017-08-02	openstates	ocd-bill/68ef4a07-b76a-4b53-8074-6e821dd039d2	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25820	da9ca2c9dba445721345d95687d406c14f26be6d8cb9b5227b0a9509888bafe4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 190 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COASTAL ZONE ACT.

This Act, which shall be known as the Coastal Zone Conversion Permit Act, makes changes to the Coastal Zone Act (“CZA”), which has not been significantly updated since its enactment almost a half century ago. The CZA, enacted in 1971, has enabled Delaware to preserve and protect our coastline, one of Delaware’s greatest natural resources. However, the CZA has also allowed property that has been in use by heavy industry for nearly 50 years, most suitable for similar industrial uses, to go unused unless the owner is willing to engage in the same heavy industry use or to use the property for manufacturing.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 18–2 (pass) · upper
• SM — 34–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Charles S Postles Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
• William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-18 Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-06 Amendment HA 1 to HB 190 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 8 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2017-06-14 Amendment HA 2 to HB 190 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 4 to HB 190 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 6 to HB 190 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 3 to HB 190 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 5 to HB 190 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 1 to HB 190 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 2 to HB 190 - Stricken in House
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 3 to HB 190 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 4 to HB 190 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 5 to HB 190 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 6 to HB 190 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20 Amendment HA 7 to HB 190 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO passage
• 2017-06-20 Assigned to Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 NO 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2017-08-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68ef4a07-b76a-4b53-8074-6e821dd039d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).