republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-47.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCARDING YARD WASTE ON A HIGHWAY.	This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines “yard waste”.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 47	Delaware SB 47 (151)	bill		enacted	Dave G. Lawson Shannon Morris	2	10	2	2021-02-12	2021-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f9972a3c-ecd0-4785-a65d-5f50b2f10ea5	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48379	6b1bb1700d98f43292a1d3827611160235b95f932555be25f4ac932f114b97fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 47 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DISCARDING YARD WASTE ON A HIGHWAY.

This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines “yard waste”.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SS 1 for SB 47 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• Shannon Morris — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-12 Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 47, and Assigned to Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-10 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-12 Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-03-16 Amendment SA 1 to SS 1 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2021-03-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-03-17 Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-25 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-09-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9972a3c-ecd0-4785-a65d-5f50b2f10ea5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).