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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY."
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description: "This Act directs the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to work with PJM Interconnection, LLC to study the transmission impacts of offshore wind development, to work with neighboring states on offshore wind transmission, and to study and report back to the Governor and the General Assembly on a process for procuring offshore wind power."
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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: "SB 170"
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citation: "Delaware SB 170 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stephanie L. Hansen", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-06-08"
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last_action: "2023-08-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe0beda8-5779-4f1f-a4b5-bc3b85e4dafa"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140563"
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source_hash: "04587becb74d625bd4928772b42c3cdce0902c65f9a82454d7bf31f8f32522f5"
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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 SB 170 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY.
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This Act directs the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to work with PJM Interconnection, LLC to study the transmission impacts of offshore wind development, to work with neighboring states on offshore wind transmission, and to study and report back to the Governor and the General Assembly on a process for procuring offshore wind power.
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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=140563&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB170)
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2. **SA 1 to SB 170** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140598&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **33–7** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — 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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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — 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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- **2023-06-08** Introduced and Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-13** Amendment SA 1 to SB 170 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 170 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
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- **2023-06-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2023-06-16** Assigned to Natural Resources & Energy Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 7 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-08-03** 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/fe0beda8-5779-4f1f-a4b5-bc3b85e4dafa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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