republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-36.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STRAY LIVESTOCK.	This Act more effectively and efficiently clarifies the enforcement authority of the Department of Agriculture regarding livestock at large. The offenses will now be civil penalties rather than criminal fines, expenses for impoundment will be reimbursed by the violator, and other sources of media can be used to give public notice of impoundment or sale of any livestock at large. This Act is intended to penalize repeat offenders that knowingly let their livestock run at large.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 36	Delaware SB 36 (149)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis Dave G. Lawson F. Gary Simpson William J. Carson	1	7	2	2017-03-21	2017-06-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4531ffbc-7865-4aaa-ac8a-e2c520cf1b6d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25492	8db7a46dd08017c8b49c670572f52657b491dab867996f26b3ea253c02c94ac6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 36 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STRAY LIVESTOCK.

This Act more effectively and efficiently clarifies the enforcement authority of the Department of Agriculture regarding livestock at large. The offenses will now be civil penalties rather than criminal fines, expenses for impoundment will be reimbursed by the violator, and other sources of media can be used to give public notice of impoundment or sale of any livestock at large. This Act is intended to penalize repeat offenders that knowingly let their livestock run at large.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• F. Gary Simpson — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-21 Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-29 Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 4 Favorable committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2017-04-04 Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-02 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-08 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4531ffbc-7865-4aaa-ac8a-e2c520cf1b6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).