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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE AND VOLUME 68, CHAPTER 88 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE, RELATING TO BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS"
description: "The National League of Families POW/MIA flag is a “symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars” 36. U.S.C. § 902."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 68"
citation: "Delaware HB 68 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Dave G. Lawson", "Michael F. Smith", "Michael Ramone", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a257dfff-94d1-45e6-9826-24702bc5c6cb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48284"
source_hash: "a3c328df440e4fd3e54df53efd606b15dbf9ffdcb1bce18bd8b0b0f3f382335a"
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 68 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE AND VOLUME 68, CHAPTER 88 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE, RELATING TO BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
The National League of Families POW/MIA flag is a “symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars” 36. U.S.C. § 902.
## 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=48284&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB68)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-14** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-26** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-01-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-01-28** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-03** 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/a257dfff-94d1-45e6-9826-24702bc5c6cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).