republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-198.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ANIMAL FIGHTING.	This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a class E felony.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 198	Delaware SB 198 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Cyndie Romer David L. Wilson David P. Sokola John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable Stell Parker Selby Stephanie L. Hansen Valerie Longhurst	1	7	2	2024-01-04	2024-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/dd74f2c6-410d-4645-8f6f-2e274855700c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140812	907d9431c850d84fefe8fd03a752191e409acf5ef8412fe2532a4515e84a41a5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 198 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ANIMAL FIGHTING.

This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a class E felony.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 17–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 1 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-04-11 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2024-08-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd74f2c6-410d-4645-8f6f-2e274855700c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).