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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WATER SUPPLY COORDINATING COUNCIL."
description: "Since its creation the Water Supply Coordinating Council (the Council) has provided critical guidance to proactively address identified water supply issues. However, the actions of the Council have largely focused on recommendations and implementation associated with water supplies in the drought-prone portions of Northern New Castle County. While the water supplies in that area remain critical to the State, additional focus is needed on similar water supply coordination in other portions of the State as well. Many of the Councils reports have made recommendations for other actions in these areas, however, it is critical that appropriate local/regional representation be included to receive the necessary input and feedback that made the New Castle County implementation successful. Therefore, this Act is intended to reconstitute the Council to provide for a smaller more consistent quorum for state-wide coordination while establishing the structure for direct regional (County-level) contributions and implementation. It is intended that the preliminary charge of each County-level subcommittee will be to establish the appropriate memberships to best address their prioritized concerns."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 190"
citation: "Delaware SB 190 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kyra L. Hoffner", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-20"
last_action: "2023-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3246ccf4-ee69-411c-a95f-7d4f2e84a1d9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140660"
source_hash: "73d386c9d2e645e40d1c2f81a1814a842bea6c8af2159aade41a6deaf3b779a2"
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 SB 190 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WATER SUPPLY COORDINATING COUNCIL.
Since its creation the Water Supply Coordinating Council (the Council) has provided critical guidance to proactively address identified water supply issues. However, the actions of the Council have largely focused on recommendations and implementation associated with water supplies in the drought-prone portions of Northern New Castle County. While the water supplies in that area remain critical to the State, additional focus is needed on similar water supply coordination in other portions of the State as well. Many of the Councils reports have made recommendations for other actions in these areas, however, it is critical that appropriate local/regional representation be included to receive the necessary input and feedback that made the New Castle County implementation successful. Therefore, this Act is intended to reconstitute the Council to provide for a smaller more consistent quorum for state-wide coordination while establishing the structure for direct regional (County-level) contributions and implementation. It is intended that the preliminary charge of each County-level subcommittee will be to establish the appropriate memberships to best address their prioritized concerns.
## 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=140660&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB190)
## Votes
- SM — **191** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Kyra L. Hoffner — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-20** Introduced and Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-23** Assigned to Natural Resources & Energy Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2023-09-14** 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/3246ccf4-ee69-411c-a95f-7d4f2e84a1d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).