republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-129.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.	This Act modifies Section 2803 to add definitions for negligence, misconduct and incompetence. These new definitions will provide greater clarity and guidance for the Council of the Delaware Association of Professional Engineers in determining whether a licensee is subject to discipline. Section 2817(a)(7) has been amended by striking the requirement that an applicant who fails the Principles and Practice of Engineering examination four times must go through additional steps before taking the examination another time. Eliminating this requirement will remove unnecessary barriers to licensure. Further, Section 2823 has been amended to add “negligence” and “pattern of negligence” as grounds for discipline. These changes will ensure that discipline is imposed for conduct that poses a risk to the public. This Act adds a definition for “successor professional engineer” and a new Section 2832 to delineate the acceptable parameters for a successor engineer’s reuse or adoption of work performed by another engineer. These revisions will both inform licensees of the permissible use of another engineer’s work and ensure that the recipient of services can identify the responsible engineer.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 129	Delaware HB 129 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn David L. Wilson Kendra Johnson Michael Ramone Ronald E. Gray Sean Matthews Stell Parker Selby William J. Carson	2	9	2	2023-04-25	2023-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/7be8ed62-e272-4e86-9d2d-19a44a95816e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130239	dd43855c713df58ce467b7a25d69b00b395805be6e70c503d44cae9c90e58711	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 129 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.

This Act modifies Section 2803 to add definitions for negligence, misconduct and incompetence. These new definitions will provide greater clarity and guidance for the Council of the Delaware Association of Professional Engineers in determining whether a licensee is subject to discipline. Section 2817(a)(7) has been amended by striking the requirement that an applicant who fails the Principles and Practice of Engineering examination four times must go through additional steps before taking the examination another time. Eliminating this requirement will remove unnecessary barriers to licensure. Further, Section 2823 has been amended to add “negligence” and “pattern of negligence” as grounds for discipline. These changes will ensure that discipline is imposed for conduct that poses a risk to the public. This Act adds a definition for “successor professional engineer” and a new Section 2832 to delineate the acceptable parameters for a successor engineer’s reuse or adoption of work performed by another engineer. These revisions will both inform licensees of the permissible use of another engineer’s work and ensure that the recipient of services can identify the responsible engineer.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 129 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-04-25 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-05-12 Amendment HA 1 to HB 129 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 129 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-06-08 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-08 Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-08-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7be8ed62-e272-4e86-9d2d-19a44a95816e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).