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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH. | This Bill eliminates the prohibition against hunting for deer on Sundays. Additionally, it maintains the applicable agency regulating public lands authority and discretion to regulate, including prohibition of, deer hunting on Sundays. Lastly, the bill allows for the harvesting of deer on Sundays through DNREC’s deer depredation programs. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 149 | SB 198 | Delaware SB 198 (149) |
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1 | 7 | 2 | 2018-05-08 | 2018-07-11 | openstates | ocd-bill/621d2d06-b85f-4776-8393-5be99166318a | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26619 | c82cc7c901fc0c3f0abbf712febf968cc5c2d955327c7fab28d97cfa66eca6a5 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware SB 198 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH.
This Bill eliminates the prohibition against hunting for deer on Sundays. Additionally, it maintains the applicable agency regulating public lands authority and discretion to regulate, including prohibition of, deer hunting on Sundays. Lastly, the bill allows for the harvesting of deer on Sundays through DNREC’s deer depredation programs.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 17–2 (pass) · upper
- SM — 39–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory F. Lavelle — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-05-08 Introduced and Assigned to Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2018-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
committee-passage - 2018-06-07 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT
passage - 2018-06-12 Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2018-06-20 Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 7 On Its Merits
committee-passage - 2018-06-28 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 NO
passage - 2018-07-11 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/621d2d06-b85f-4776-8393-5be99166318a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).