republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-66.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO ENFORCE THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL'S DIVISION OF PARKS AND RECREATION'S RULES AND REGULATIONS.	This Act enables the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to employ Seasonal Patrol Officers without conferring on the seasonal patrol officers all the powers of investigation, detention, and arrest conferred by law on peace officers or constables under § 4701(a)(8) of Title 7. Seasonal patrol officers will assist the Department's park rangers and have limited powers to enforce the Division of Parks and Recreation's rules and regulations.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 66	Delaware SB 66 (150)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Trey Paradee	2	8	2	2019-04-09	2019-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e3133d57-4bed-450e-abd2-db85978fe718	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47318	1a1f43e872ae57a7610b9dd72d4100a4ef515098357e3a5754da77b0e1ea8a50	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 66 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO ENFORCE THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL'S DIVISION OF PARKS AND RECREATION'S RULES AND REGULATIONS.

This Act enables the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to employ Seasonal Patrol Officers without conferring on the seasonal patrol officers all the powers of investigation, detention, and arrest conferred by law on peace officers or constables under § 4701(a)(8) of Title 7. Seasonal patrol officers will assist the Department's park rangers and have limited powers to enforce the Division of Parks and Recreation's rules and regulations.

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 66 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-09 Introduced and Assigned to Environmental & Natural Resources Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Environmental & Natural Resources) in Senate with 3 Favorable committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-13 Amendment SA 1 to SB 66 - 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 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
• 2019-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3133d57-4bed-450e-abd2-db85978fe718. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).