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type: "Bill"
title: "DIRECTING THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL TO BEGIN COORDINATION WITH THE FEDERAL AGENCIES CARRYING AUTHORITY TO IDENTIFY THE STRUCTURE NECESSARY FOR A STATE NONTIDAL WETLANDS PROGRAM FOR THE PURPOSE OF SHIFTING PERMITTING AUTHORITY FROM THE FEDERAL LEVEL TO THE STATE."
description: "This Senate Joint Resolution requires the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to engage authoritative federal agencies to identify the administrative structure, legal structure, and resource needs to establish a State nontidal wetlands permitting program effectively shifting the permitting program from the federal to the State level. This Senate Joint Resolution also requires that a report containing the results of this review be completed and made public within 1 year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SJR 2"
citation: "Delaware SJR 2 (151)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Debra Heffernan", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-27"
last_action: "2021-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/221099ce-d854-49c4-b730-a01a977f704c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68617"
source_hash: "623dba68a2947dee756ae70f726d9d752da4d86f8f8128ca20ccc85fabb36231"
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 SJR 2 (151) — DIRECTING THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL TO BEGIN COORDINATION WITH THE FEDERAL AGENCIES CARRYING AUTHORITY TO IDENTIFY THE STRUCTURE NECESSARY FOR A STATE NONTIDAL WETLANDS PROGRAM FOR THE PURPOSE OF SHIFTING PERMITTING AUTHORITY FROM THE FEDERAL LEVEL TO THE STATE.
This Senate Joint Resolution requires the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to engage authoritative federal agencies to identify the administrative structure, legal structure, and resource needs to establish a State nontidal wetlands permitting program effectively shifting the permitting program from the federal to the State level. This Senate Joint Resolution also requires that a report containing the results of this review be completed and made public within 1 year.
## 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=68617&legislationTypeId=4&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SJR2)
2. **SA 1 to SJR 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68719&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **347** (pass) · lower
- SM — **156** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-04-27** Introduced and Assigned to Environment & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Reported Out of Committee (Environment & Energy) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2021-05-17** Amendment SA 1 to SJR 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-08** Amendment SA 1 to SJR 2 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2021-06-09** Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-24** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO `passage`
- **2021-09-30** 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/221099ce-d854-49c4-b730-a01a977f704c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).