republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-72.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.	This bill serves to "decouple" the required examination in Principles and Practice of Engineering from the experience requirements. Applicants who have met their educational requirements may take the examination prior to completion of their experience. (This amendment does not apply to applicants who become licensed solely through experience without an educational component.) Decoupling serves to safeguard life, health, and property and promotes the public welfare by encouraging and facilitating engineering students and new engineers to pursue licensure without lowering the requirements for licensure. Currently, 16 states allow applicants to take the examination before completion of 4 years of experience. This bill also specifies that, for comity applicants, experience may be accepted even where it is obtained outside of the states, territories, or possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia, or provinces or territories of Canada.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 72	Delaware SB 72 (150)	bill		enacted	David B. McBride Ronald E. Gray	1	7	2	2019-04-10	2019-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/40856378-8a20-421d-abd8-53366a27c4e0	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47335	e1af8a0a94fce845864b7e102cee3246b50ba18a8947f0bb387d172ada484e64	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 72 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.

This bill serves to "decouple" the required examination in Principles and Practice of Engineering from the experience requirements. Applicants who have met their educational requirements may take the examination prior to completion of their experience. (This amendment does not apply to applicants who become licensed solely through experience without an educational component.) Decoupling serves to safeguard life, health, and property and promotes the public welfare by encouraging and facilitating engineering students and new engineers to pursue licensure without lowering the requirements for licensure. Currently, 16 states allow applicants to take the examination before completion of 4 years of experience. This bill also specifies that, for comity applicants, experience may be accepted even where it is obtained outside of the states, territories, or possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia, or provinces or territories of Canada.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-10 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-04-17 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-04-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2019-05-02 Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-26 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/40856378-8a20-421d-abd8-53366a27c4e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).