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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONSERVATION ACCESS PASSES."
description: "This Act provides a senior discount for residents and non-residents 62 years of age and older, for a conservation access pass, and a life-time conservation access pass for Delaware residents, 65 years of age and older, consistent with current senior discounts for access fees to Delaware State Parks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 149"
citation: "Delaware HB 149 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andria L. Bennett", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-15"
last_action: "2021-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6b53f7e-fe12-4901-8588-5bf46b5485c0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58582"
source_hash: "03e0236a4d7954434f410390597fa54f4c55bd2b39c4738adb98153e7df76df8"
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 HB 149 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONSERVATION ACCESS PASSES.
This Act provides a senior discount for residents and non-residents 62 years of age and older, for a conservation access pass, and a life-time conservation access pass for Delaware residents, 65 years of age and older, consistent with current senior discounts for access fees to Delaware State Parks.
## 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=58582&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB149)
2. **HA 1 to HB 149** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78884&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 3/5 — **400** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Andria L. Bennett — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-04-15** Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Amendment HA 1 to HB 149 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 149 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-29** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-17** 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/b6b53f7e-fe12-4901-8588-5bf46b5485c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).