republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-6.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINFISHING IN TIDAL WATERS.	This bill streamlines the process by which the Department may incorporate into its regulations tidal finfish management measures that have been adopted and specified in a regional or federal fisheries management plan or rule. This bill also eliminates procedures for the promulgation of tidal finfish regulations that the Delaware Administrative Procedures Act has rendered obsolete.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 6	Delaware HB 6 (150)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis William J. Carson	2	7	2	2019-06-12	2019-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/05528c6e-cc77-4b21-82b8-f005290630d2	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47567	76ebf7ce36761f23c946aca29724f0b92d14c4e85f8e35fdc19fc10bd88448fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 6 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FINFISHING IN TIDAL WATERS.

This bill streamlines the process by which the Department may incorporate into its regulations tidal finfish management measures that have been adopted and specified in a regional or federal fisheries management plan or rule. This bill also eliminates procedures for the promulgation of tidal finfish regulations that the Delaware Administrative Procedures Act has rendered obsolete.

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 6 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-12 Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-20 Amendment HA 1 to HB 6 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to HB 6 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2019-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/05528c6e-cc77-4b21-82b8-f005290630d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).