republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-44.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.	This bill eliminates all references to physical paper copies of professional licenses for professions administrated by the Division of Professional Regulation. This bill would eliminate the need for the Division to print and mail over 80,000 paper licenses every two years thus cutting down on administrative and supply costs and eliminating unnecessary paper production and waste.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 44	Delaware HB 44 (150)	bill		enacted	Krista Griffith S. Elizabeth Lockman Valerie Longhurst	2	8	2	2019-01-17	2019-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/351f0d9c-df2f-4d68-95c0-7f3908da99b0	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37104	99006ae935387e0408dcb22dc91a0d41549b0a4218eabcdf165bbeec64462d95	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 44 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.

This bill eliminates all references to physical paper copies of professional licenses for professions administrated by the Division of Professional Regulation. This bill would eliminate the need for the Division to print and mail over 80,000 paper licenses every two years thus cutting down on administrative and supply costs and eliminating unnecessary paper production and waste.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 44 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-17 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-03-05 Amendment HA 1 to HB 44 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-03-05 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-03-05 Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-03-13 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-03-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2019-04-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/351f0d9c-df2f-4d68-95c0-7f3908da99b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).