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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIRE-RESISTANCE-RELATED CONSTRUCTION."
description: "This bill brings Delaware into conformity with national standards on fire safety dampers and smoke dampers. It requires all buildings of public accommodation and shared residential buildings to conform to standards that will ensure life-saving alarms and fire dampening efforts are safe and up to nationally recognized standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 308"
citation: "Delaware SB 308 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Jack\" Walsh", "John L. Mitchell", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-06-02"
last_action: "2022-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36ff193e-d027-43c8-acb3-b08b8f94d3d6"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109581"
source_hash: "2ab618717bc6c481c8cc84944c78ff696c61d136a3742c0380af831d7772b094"
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 308 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIRE-RESISTANCE-RELATED CONSTRUCTION.
This bill brings Delaware into conformity with national standards on fire safety dampers and smoke dampers. It requires all buildings of public accommodation and shared residential buildings to conform to standards that will ensure life-saving alarms and fire dampening efforts are safe and up to nationally recognized standards.
## 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=109581&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB308)
2. **HA 2 to SB 308** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129847&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
3. **SA 1 to SB 308** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129693&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **190** (pass) · upper
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-06-02** Introduced and Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-14** Amendment SA 1 to SB 308 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 308 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2022-06-28** Amendment HA 1 to SB 308 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-28** Amendment HA 2 to SB 308 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-28** Amendment HA 1 to SB 308 - Stricken in House
- **2022-06-28** Amendment HA 2 to SB 308 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-21** 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/36ff193e-d027-43c8-acb3-b08b8f94d3d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).