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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HUNTING AND FISHING AUTHORIZATIONS. | This Act modernizes fishing, hunting, and trapping license and associated waterfowl and trout stamp specifications to include digital formats. This Act refines the definition of waterfowl consistent with the gamebird waterfowl definition in existing code for determining when a waterfowl stamp is required to hunt waterfowl. This Act also eliminates trout catch reporting requirements, clarifies when and where a trout fishing stamp is required for fishing, and corrects certain trout stamp exemptions in the current code. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 151 | HB 218 | Delaware HB 218 (151) |
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1 | 8 | 2 | 2021-06-03 | 2021-09-30 | openstates | ocd-bill/c6d3f9ed-51ee-4c90-91c4-316f04fb168c | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78799 | 2e516e040cab89436f8a2c8ce6236f53ba1924509444d8d306e3200abc6ba143 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 218 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HUNTING AND FISHING AUTHORIZATIONS.
This Act modernizes fishing, hunting, and trapping license and associated waterfowl and trout stamp specifications to include digital formats. This Act refines the definition of waterfowl consistent with the gamebird waterfowl definition in existing code for determining when a waterfowl stamp is required to hunt waterfowl. This Act also eliminates trout catch reporting requirements, clarifies when and where a trout fishing stamp is required for fishing, and corrects certain trout stamp exemptions in the current code.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2021-06-16 Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-06-18 Suspension of Rules in House
- 2021-06-22 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
passage - 2021-06-22 Assigned to Environment & Energy Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2021-06-24 Reported Out of Committee (Environment & Energy) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
passage - 2021-09-30 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6d3f9ed-51ee-4c90-91c4-316f04fb168c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).