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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ANIMAL FIGHTING."
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description: "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."
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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 198"
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citation: "Delaware SB 198 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["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"]
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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: "2024-01-04"
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last_action: "2024-08-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd74f2c6-410d-4645-8f6f-2e274855700c"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140812"
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source_hash: "907d9431c850d84fefe8fd03a752191e409acf5ef8412fe2532a4515e84a41a5"
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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 198 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ANIMAL FIGHTING.
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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.
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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=140812&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB198)
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## Votes
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- SM — **17–1** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — 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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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-01-04** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 1 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-04-11** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2024-08-29** 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/dd74f2c6-410d-4645-8f6f-2e274855700c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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