republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-14.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TROTLINE LICENSES.	This Act creates a new license for the use of trotlines in commercial crabbing. This Act prohibits a person from possessing a commercial crab pot license and trotline license at the same time.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 14	Delaware HB 14 (152)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short David L. Wilson Laura V. Sturgeon Peter C. Schwartzkopf Ronald E. Gray William Bush William J. Carson	2	9	2	2024-02-29	2024-11-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4726d92b-d617-45c5-8775-aabb7e0750de	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140906	671b4b444ca7caaf8a3975d8b078db360c8b26898fd68ad7c0aa1b454668ecb3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 14 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TROTLINE LICENSES.

This Act creates a new license for the use of trotlines in commercial crabbing. This Act prohibits a person from possessing a commercial crab pot license and trotline license at the same time.

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 14 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-29 Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources & Energy Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-12 Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 6 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 Amendment HA 1 to HB 14 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-04-16 Amendment HA 1 to HB 14 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-04-16 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2024-04-16 Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-11-01 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4726d92b-d617-45c5-8775-aabb7e0750de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).