republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-193.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE DELAWARE STATE FIRE PREVENTION COMMISSION.	This bill seeks to provide the State Fire Commission with the authority to hear and resolve disputes filed by members of the public or fire companies with respect to firefighting activities by individual firefighters and fire companies. The Commission may utilize existing regulations to hear such disputes or many promulgate additional regulations consistent and in furtherance of this subsection. This bill also authorizes the Commission and its staff to investigate fires where firefighters are injured and to issue investigative reports detailing findings and conclusions. Finally, the bill provides immunity to the Commission and its staff for activity authorized by this section.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 193	Delaware HB 193 (151)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short John L. Mitchell Kimberly Williams Sherry Dorsey Walker William J. Carson	3	17	3	2021-05-18	2022-07-27	openstates	ocd-bill/039b1835-d36e-4d79-b6dc-4845956e9a78	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68728	9acbaeb958453ea9a8e609d0208e5f99c0715feed7bf305bb32bd219c2a38a9f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 193 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE DELAWARE STATE FIRE PREVENTION COMMISSION.

This bill seeks to provide the State Fire Commission with the authority to hear and resolve disputes filed by members of the public or fire companies with respect to firefighting activities by individual firefighters and fire companies. The Commission may utilize existing regulations to hear such disputes or many promulgate additional regulations consistent and in furtherance of this subsection. This bill also authorizes the Commission and its staff to investigate fires where firefighters are injured and to issue investigative reports detailing findings and conclusions. Finally, the bill provides immunity to the Commission and its staff for activity authorized by this section.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 3 to HB 193 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to HB 193 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 34–5 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-05-18 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-14 Amendment HA 1 to HB 193 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-05-11 Amendment HA 2 to HB 193 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-05-12 Amendment HA 3 to HB 193 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-05-12 Amendment HA 1 to HB 193 - Stricken in House
• 2022-05-12 Amendment HA 2 to HB 193 - Stricken in House
• 2022-05-12 Amendment HA 3 to HB 193 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-05-12 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 5 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2022-05-12 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Amendment SA 1 to HB 193 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-30 Amendment SA 1 to HB 193 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2022-07-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/039b1835-d36e-4d79-b6dc-4845956e9a78. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).