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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE LOTTERY FUND."
description: "This Act enhances 2 existing agricultural horse racing programs, the Delaware Standardbred Breeder's Program and the Delaware Certified Thoroughbred program, by providing additional funding. Under this Act, horsemen provide half of the additional funds from purse money and the State provides half of the additional funds with matching funds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 29"
citation: "Delaware SB 29 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andria L. Bennett", "Bruce C. Ennis", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1ddac9f-80e4-48e0-be90-a1be25ac21b9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48267"
source_hash: "ee63524de343e9d17ef0138565c63feb2f7e392427852fe60cd03193a70d50a0"
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 SB 29 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE LOTTERY FUND.
This Act enhances 2 existing agricultural horse racing programs, the Delaware Standardbred Breeder's Program and the Delaware Certified Thoroughbred program, by providing additional funding. Under this Act, horsemen provide half of the additional funds from purse money and the State provides half of the additional funds with matching funds.
## 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=48267&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB29)
2. **SA 1 to SB 29** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48365&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **391** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Andria L. Bennett — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — 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 A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-12** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-21** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Amendment SA 1 to SB 29 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-03-11** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Amendment SA 1 to SB 29 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Assigned to Gaming & Parimutuels Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Gaming & Parimutuels) in House with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-04** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-07-29** 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/d1ddac9f-80e4-48e0-be90-a1be25ac21b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).