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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "150"
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identifier: "SB 72"
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citation: "Delaware SB 72 (150)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Ronald E. Gray"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-04-10"
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last_action: "2019-07-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40856378-8a20-421d-abd8-53366a27c4e0"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47335"
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source_hash: "e1af8a0a94fce845864b7e102cee3246b50ba18a8947f0bb387d172ada484e64"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 72 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47335&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB72)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David B. McBride — primary (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-04-10** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2019-04-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2019-05-02** Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-05-08** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2019-07-17** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40856378-8a20-421d-abd8-53366a27c4e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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