republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-61.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT AND SUNSET COMMITTEE.	This Act clarifies the authority of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("Committee") to hold over entities unless or until certain conditions are met or modifications are made. This Act also provides the authority for the Committee to recall an entity that has been released from review when the entity has the ability to meet the recommended condition or make the modification but has failed to do so, or when the Committee recommended legislation to amend an entity's governing statute or a related statute, but the legislation fails to be enacted for any reason. If the Committee recalls an entity, it may recommend any of the options available in subsection (a) of this section.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 61	Delaware SB 61 (149)	bill		enacted	John Walsh Stephanie T. Bolden	1	7	2	2017-04-07	2017-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/8d610f68-ba98-433a-ae0c-5a0d484ca163	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25625	d931a28cce7b07b12d92f8b9a00400023a2cc209493ef3d7cfc8738ce0d9b486	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 61 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT AND SUNSET COMMITTEE.

This Act clarifies the authority of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("Committee") to hold over entities unless or until certain conditions are met or modifications are made. This Act also provides the authority for the Committee to recall an entity that has been released from review when the entity has the ability to meet the recommended condition or make the modification but has failed to do so, or when the Committee recommended legislation to amend an entity's governing statute or a related statute, but the legislation fails to be enacted for any reason. If the Committee recalls an entity, it may recommend any of the options available in subsection (a) of this section.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John Walsh — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-07 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-08 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-09 Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2017-09-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8d610f68-ba98-433a-ae0c-5a0d484ca163. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).