republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-163.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FARMS.	This Act more closely aligns the meaning of agricultural, horticultural, and forestry land use with the U.S. Census Bureau’s definition of “farm,” which, since the 1974 Census, has included “any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold . . . during the year.” This alignment will ensure a more equitable tax treatment of farms throughout Delaware.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 163	Delaware SB 163 (151)	bill		enacted	Dave G. Lawson Sherry Dorsey Walker	2	13	2	2021-06-03	2022-07-28	openstates	ocd-bill/27ad205d-688f-41aa-803f-2145a3c6a662	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78801	a6fb313f8a73bcc59a5bde866bea51c12808a226fbbf86e447ed9b19ac441093	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 163 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FARMS.

This Act more closely aligns the meaning of agricultural, horticultural, and forestry land use with the U.S. Census Bureau’s definition of “farm,” which, since the 1974 Census, has included “any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold . . . during the year.” This alignment will ensure a more equitable tax treatment of farms throughout Delaware.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 3 to SB 163 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 Amendment SA 1 to SB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-07 Amendment SA 2 to SB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-28 Amendment SA 3 to SB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-28 Amendment SA 1 to SB 163 - Stricken in Senate
• 2022-06-28 Amendment SA 2 to SB 163 - Stricken in Senate
• 2022-06-28 Amendment SA 3 to SB 163 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2022-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-06-29 Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2022-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-07-28 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27ad205d-688f-41aa-803f-2145a3c6a662. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).