republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-24.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE LITTER CONTROL LAW.	The intent of this Act is to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the environment and to raise awareness of the need to properly dispose of balloons. To that end, this Act imposes a civil penalty for the violation of intentionally releasing 5 or more balloons filled with air or lighter-than-air gases, to prevent litter which blights our communities and environment and causes harm to wildlife and marine animals. The release of multiple balloons at 1 time is a single offense under this Act. This Act also establishes that intentionally releasing 1 to 4 balloons at 1 time is littering.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 24	Delaware SB 24 (151)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Stephanie L. Hansen	1	6	2	2021-03-11	2021-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/b19d7a9d-2703-413e-8bc4-ad2f02be7524	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48453	6204532b33a3af9c4e63f74054c797415f69195b727b5150541f8d278e7cf45c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 24 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE LITTER CONTROL LAW.

The intent of this Act is to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the environment and to raise awareness of the need to properly dispose of balloons. To that end, this Act imposes a civil penalty for the violation of intentionally releasing 5 or more balloons filled with air or lighter-than-air gases, to prevent litter which blights our communities and environment and causes harm to wildlife and marine animals. The release of multiple balloons at 1 time is a single offense under this Act. This Act also establishes that intentionally releasing 1 to 4 balloons at 1 time is littering.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 19–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-11 was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 24 introduction
• 2021-03-11 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2021-03-12 Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-17 Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-09-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b19d7a9d-2703-413e-8bc4-ad2f02be7524. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).