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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE, PRIVATE SECURITY AND ARMORED CAR AGENCIES."
description: "This Act provides greater clarity of language, condenses duplicative statutes and deletes statues that are irrelevant to daily operations of the Professional Licensing Sections regulation of private security, private investigative and armored car agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "Delaware SB 55 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian J. Bushweller", "Charles Potter Jr.", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-04"
last_action: "2017-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bde882bd-a615-470a-8ce4-f8c30c308d10"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25604"
source_hash: "ef51461c80f15398e86e911d5782b5c2f59d8b36bef2e4a533859b7949a7a655"
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 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 Sections 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25604&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB55)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **390** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **180** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bde882bd-a615-470a-8ce4-f8c30c308d10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).