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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE LITTER CONTROL LAW."
description: "This Act addresses the serious problem of individuals dumping large quantities of trash on public and private property, by:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "Delaware SB 5 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin S Hensley", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-12"
last_action: "2019-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73e7cdf8-445a-43d2-b1bf-fefd4ceded07"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47185"
source_hash: "a9f919216e50c6ca66cee2742ca6ba965e50af70286a3a7c90d1488a8dc09d81"
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 5 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE LITTER CONTROL LAW.
This Act addresses the serious problem of individuals dumping large quantities of trash on public and private property, by:
## 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=47185&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1)
2. **SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47206&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **170** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Shannon Morris — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-12** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 5 `introduction`
- **2019-03-13** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-14** Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-03-19** Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-29** 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/73e7cdf8-445a-43d2-b1bf-fefd4ceded07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).