republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-189.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNDERGROUND UTILITY AND SAFETY ACT.	The U.S. Department of Transportation has recently found Delaware to be non-compliant with enforcement of underground excavation violations. This jeopardizes federal funding for the Commissions pipeline safety program. Two principal reasons for this have been the lack of notification to State agencies and the lack of enforcement when damage is known. This bill updates Title 26, Chapter 8 by ensuring notification of excavation damage to the appropriate State agencies for potential penalties or other enforcement proceedings. It provides that either the Attorney General or the Public Service Commission may enforce penalties appropriate for the circumstances and gravity of the violation.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 189	Delaware SB 189 (149)	bill		enacted	Harris B. McDowell Trey Charles Paradee	1	10	2	2018-04-30	2018-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/20bcefc0-18d1-4b95-9266-500e96a3d8c5	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26588	fb544765bf157bf5ff3f1338e8856f23e3e3a63102865cacef288f121ba3eb2c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 189 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 26 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNDERGROUND UTILITY AND SAFETY ACT.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has recently found Delaware to be non-compliant with enforcement of underground excavation violations. This jeopardizes federal funding for the Commissions pipeline safety program. Two principal reasons for this have been the lack of notification to State agencies and the lack of enforcement when damage is known. This bill updates Title 26, Chapter 8 by ensuring notification of excavation damage to the appropriate State agencies for potential penalties or other enforcement proceedings. It provides that either the Attorney General or the Public Service Commission may enforce penalties appropriate for the circumstances and gravity of the violation.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-30 Introduced and Assigned to Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-19 Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-19 Amendment SA 1 to SB 189 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 Amendment SA 2 to SB 189 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2018-06-26 Amendment SA 1 to SB 189 - Stricken in Senate
• 2018-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2018-06-27 Assigned to Energy Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Energy) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-08-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20bcefc0-18d1-4b95-9266-500e96a3d8c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).