Fabio
77 lines
3.6 KiB
Markdown
77 lines
3.6 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH."
|
||
description: "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."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
|
||
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
|
||
session: "149"
|
||
identifier: "SB 198"
|
||
citation: "Delaware SB 198 (149)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "William J. Carson"]
|
||
version_count: 1
|
||
action_count: 7
|
||
vote_count: 2
|
||
first_action: "2018-05-08"
|
||
last_action: "2018-07-11"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/621d2d06-b85f-4776-8393-5be99166318a"
|
||
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26619"
|
||
source_hash: "c82cc7c901fc0c3f0abbf712febf968cc5c2d955327c7fab28d97cfa66eca6a5"
|
||
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 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.
|
||
|
||
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26619&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB198)
|
||
|
||
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/621d2d06-b85f-4776-8393-5be99166318a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
|
||
|