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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTING."
description: "This Act requires that bidders for public works contracts that are above a minimum value and required to provide the prevailing wage include approved craft training programs for journeyman and apprentice levels if the contract is not for a federal highway project. This Substitute Act differs from Senate Bill No. 48 as follows:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 48"
citation: "Delaware SB 48 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "John A. Kowalko", "Kimberly Williams", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-26"
last_action: "2019-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a80c12c-7558-4173-9972-c8cdefa7dda2"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47284"
source_hash: "7541d49e573d23ba618c85186eb4423b85b0e2aef2f3238d0e2445562d99ffd4"
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 48 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTING.
This Act requires that bidders for public works contracts that are above a minimum value and required to provide the prevailing wage include approved craft training programs for journeyman and apprentice levels if the contract is not for a federal highway project. This Substitute Act differs from Senate Bill No. 48 as follows:
## 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=47284&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1)
2. **HA 1 to SS 1 for SB 48** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47578&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **2615** (pass) · lower
- SM — **156** (pass) · upper
- SM — **138** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- John A. Kowalko — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-26** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 48 `introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 8 YES 13 NO `amendment-failure`
- **2019-03-26** Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 8 YES 13 NO `amendment-failure`
- **2019-03-26** Amendment SA 3 to SS 1 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 8 YES 13 NO `amendment-failure`
- **2019-03-26** Amendment SA 4 to SS 1 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 8 YES 13 NO `amendment-failure`
- **2019-03-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO `passage`
- **2019-03-27** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-04** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-04** Amendment HA 2 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-04** Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-04** Amendment HA 2 to SS 1 - Defeated In House by Voice Vote `amendment-failure`
- **2019-06-04** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 15 NO `passage`
- **2019-06-06** Amendment SA 5 to SS 1 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 7 YES 13 NO 1 NOT VOTING `amendment-failure`
- **2019-06-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2019-06-07** 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/2a80c12c-7558-4173-9972-c8cdefa7dda2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).