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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 RELATING TO THE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORY COUNCIL."
description: "This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's (\"JLOSC\") review of the Water Infrastructure Advisory Council (\"WIAC\"). This Act clarifies quorum, removes a prohibition against WIAC members voting when attending a meeting virtually, and authorizes WIAC to adopt procedural rules to carry out its functions. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 439"
citation: "Delaware HB 439 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kyle Evans Gay", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-02"
last_action: "2022-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e849cac0-df01-494a-83a2-4a3c568b6148"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109573"
source_hash: "4e07ce7e4f38753f36592fffd82ad265e0168c21e580337936171c93c9aa713e"
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 439 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 RELATING TO THE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORY COUNCIL.
This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Water Infrastructure Advisory Council ("WIAC"). This Act clarifies quorum, removes a prohibition against WIAC members voting when attending a meeting virtually, and authorizes WIAC to adopt procedural rules to carry out its functions. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
## 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=109573&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB439)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-21** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-21** 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/e849cac0-df01-494a-83a2-4a3c568b6148`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).