republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-140.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LEASES FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY PARK AREAS AND OPEN SPACE.	This Act will expand New Castle County’s limited authority to lease park land or land held in public trust to include leases for erecting, maintaining and operating wireless communications facilities. State law currently limits public land leases to those for recreational purposes and related activities. At common law, the State legislature must approve transfers or changes in the use of park land; however, this function may be delegated to municipalities through legislative action.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 140	Delaware SB 140 (150)	bill		enacted	John L. Mitchell Stephanie L. Hansen	2	8	2	2019-06-07	2019-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/da573b73-c570-433f-8646-9a47341dd5d9	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47626	268e14b65ccffc44fa3c60ccdb1af627db9d0e854939e9e5876a5917e348642d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 140 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LEASES FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY PARK AREAS AND OPEN SPACE.

This Act will expand New Castle County’s limited authority to lease park land or land held in public trust to include leases for erecting, maintaining and operating wireless communications facilities. State law currently limits public land leases to those for recreational purposes and related activities. At common law, the State legislature must approve transfers or changes in the use of park land; however, this function may be delegated to municipalities through legislative action.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 140 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-07 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-13 Amendment SA 1 to SB 140 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2019-06-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-14 Assigned to Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure) in House with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da573b73-c570-433f-8646-9a47341dd5d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).