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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TROTLINE LICENSES."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 14"
citation: "Delaware HB 14 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel B. Short", "David L. Wilson", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Ronald E. Gray", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4726d92b-d617-45c5-8775-aabb7e0750de"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140906"
source_hash: "671b4b444ca7caaf8a3975d8b078db360c8b26898fd68ad7c0aa1b454668ecb3"
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 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140906&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB14)
2. **HA 1 to HB 14** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141158&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **390** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4726d92b-d617-45c5-8775-aabb7e0750de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).