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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE NATIVE SPECIES COMMISSION.	This Act creates the Delaware Native Species Commission ("Commission"), which is one of the recommendations of the Statewide Ecological Extinction Task Force, created by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 20 of the 149th General Assembly. The Commission will terminate 10 years from enactment unless extended by the General Assembly.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 153	Delaware SB 153 (149)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Stephanie L. Hansen	1	10	2	2018-03-09	2018-06-07	openstates	ocd-bill/88fbcce4-317d-443f-aaa4-a21dae48727a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26311	f60452e4665fb545011d271a48dc528eaa94d64ff780a95cf109cef8b81051ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 153 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE NATIVE SPECIES COMMISSION.

This Act creates the Delaware Native Species Commission ("Commission"), which is one of the recommendations of the Statewide Ecological Extinction Task Force, created by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 20 of the 149th General Assembly. The Commission will terminate 10 years from enactment unless extended by the General Assembly.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 13–6 (pass) · upper
• SM — 33–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
• Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Melanie George Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-09 Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-03-28 Amendment SA 1 to SB 153 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-03-28 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-03-29 Amendment SA 1 to SB 153 - Stricken in Senate
• 2018-03-29 Amendment SA 2 to SB 153 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2018-03-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 6 NO 2 NOT VOTING passage
• 2018-04-12 Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 7 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2018-04-26 Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 7 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-07 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88fbcce4-317d-443f-aaa4-a21dae48727a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).