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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT OPPOSING DRILLING OFF DELAWARE'S COAST AND DIRECTING CERTAIN STATE OFFICIALS AND STATE AGENCIES TO ENFORCE DELAWARE'S RIGHTS RELATING TO OFFSHORE DRILLING UNDER FEDERAL AND STATE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS."
description: "This Substitute Act does all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 207"
citation: "Delaware SB 207 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Ernesto B Lopez", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-19"
last_action: "2018-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ff4f784-d942-44be-a424-86b80ec6bcfc"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26877"
source_hash: "592d968a84b205a2d48702795356aa1e157aefb25a3c0c22da6b1d64a5bfaef0"
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 207 (149) — AN ACT OPPOSING DRILLING OFF DELAWARE'S COAST AND DIRECTING CERTAIN STATE OFFICIALS AND STATE AGENCIES TO ENFORCE DELAWARE'S RIGHTS RELATING TO OFFSHORE DRILLING UNDER FEDERAL AND STATE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS.
This Substitute Act does all of the following:
## 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=26877&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1)
## Votes
- SM — **172** (pass) · upper
- SM — **353** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-06-19** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 207, and Assigned to Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-21** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-22** Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 3 NO 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-09-20** 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/3ff4f784-d942-44be-a424-86b80ec6bcfc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).