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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRICIANS."
description: "This bill provides for a residential electrician license. A residential electrician license allows for a person to conduct residential electrical work without having to be under the direct onsite supervision of a licensed master electrician, master electrician special, limited electrician, limited electrician special or journeyperson electrician. Electricians with a residential electrician license are permitted to perform electric work performed on or within a residential dwelling or building prior to the dwelling or building being connected to the electric grid, or work to or beyond the breaker panel or fuse box in a residential dwelling or building, or residential low voltage electric work."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 457"
citation: "Delaware HB 457 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Ernesto B Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Quinton Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-12"
last_action: "2018-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fea7b90-828d-4213-95fe-d70715f5fca6"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26821"
source_hash: "34ca95764a7a5f30ffc6ed8f08975248896d368812ef4505eb50f5973f52aa92"
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 457 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRICIANS.
This bill provides for a residential electrician license. A residential electrician license allows for a person to conduct residential electrical work without having to be under the direct onsite supervision of a licensed master electrician, master electrician special, limited electrician, limited electrician special or journeyperson electrician. Electricians with a residential electrician license are permitted to perform electric work performed on or within a residential dwelling or building prior to the dwelling or building being connected to the electric grid, or work to or beyond the breaker panel or fuse box in a residential dwelling or building, or residential low voltage electric work.
## 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=26821&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB457)
## Votes
- SM — **306** (pass) · lower
- SM — **171** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Quinton Johnson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-06-12** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 457 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 457 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-14** Passed By House. Votes: 30 YES 6 NO 4 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-14** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2018-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 1 NO 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-30** 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/4fea7b90-828d-4213-95fe-d70715f5fca6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).