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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE LITTER CONTROL LAW."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "SB 24"
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citation: "Delaware SB 24 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 6
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-03-11"
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last_action: "2021-09-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b19d7a9d-2703-413e-8bc4-ad2f02be7524"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48453"
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source_hash: "6204532b33a3af9c4e63f74054c797415f69195b727b5150541f8d278e7cf45c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 24 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE LITTER CONTROL LAW.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48453&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB24)
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## Votes
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- SM — **19–1** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **38–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-03-11** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 24 `introduction`
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- **2021-03-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
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- **2021-03-12** Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-24** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2021-09-17** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b19d7a9d-2703-413e-8bc4-ad2f02be7524`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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