republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-117.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.	This bill makes changes to the qualifications for professional land surveyors. This bill also makes clear that there is no civil or criminal trespass when a professional land surveyor enters upon land in the course of preparing a survey.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 117	Delaware HB 117 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn David L. Wilson Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Michael Ramone Ronald E. Gray Russell Huxtable Stell Parker Selby Valerie Longhurst	2	12	2	2023-04-06	2023-07-25	openstates	ocd-bill/2c3e05e1-868a-4c24-bc32-7d9df36ebaad	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130175	834b9ede98bf9c671458552f72297cc6f2bf8cf7402aa413a20a2f07c76d158f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 117 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.

This bill makes changes to the qualifications for professional land surveyors. This bill also makes clear that there is no civil or criminal trespass when a professional land surveyor enters upon land in the course of preparing a survey.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 3 to HB 117 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-06 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Amendment HA 1 to HB 117 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-25 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-09 Amendment HA 2 to HB 117 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-05-09 Amendment HA 1 to HB 117 - Stricken in House
• 2023-05-09 Amendment HA 2 to HB 117 - Stricken in House
• 2023-05-09 Amendment HA 3 to HB 117 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-05-09 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2023-05-09 Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-07-25 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c3e05e1-868a-4c24-bc32-7d9df36ebaad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).