republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-55.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE, PRIVATE SECURITY AND ARMORED CAR AGENCIES.	This Act provides greater clarity of language, condenses duplicative statutes and deletes statues that are irrelevant to daily operations of the Professional Licensing Section’s regulation of private security, private investigative and armored car agencies.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 55	Delaware SB 55 (149)	bill		enacted	Brian J. Bushweller Charles Potter Jr. William J. Carson	1	7	2	2017-04-04	2017-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/bde882bd-a615-470a-8ce4-f8c30c308d10	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25604	ef51461c80f15398e86e911d5782b5c2f59d8b36bef2e4a533859b7949a7a655	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 55 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE, PRIVATE SECURITY AND ARMORED CAR AGENCIES.

This Act provides greater clarity of language, condenses duplicative statutes and deletes statues that are irrelevant to daily operations of the Professional Licensing Section’s regulation of private security, private investigative and armored car agencies.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 18–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-04 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-05-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-01 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bde882bd-a615-470a-8ce4-f8c30c308d10. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).