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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY BUILDING CODES."
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description: "This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 402"
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citation: "Delaware HB 402 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean Matthews", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-05-16"
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last_action: "2024-09-05"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c072af57-5702-4e2d-ad05-c1ca4d9f817a"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141402"
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source_hash: "0d5349f496ff9e0211a7334061221a43887f87130ab46fb4791b878775de8a60"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 402 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY BUILDING CODES.
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This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141402&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB402)
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## Votes
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- SM — **25–15** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-05-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-06-13** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 15 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-06-13** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2024-09-05** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c072af57-5702-4e2d-ad05-c1ca4d9f817a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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