republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-63.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FARMS.	This bill updates the criteria for agriculture, horticulture, or forestry land use.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 63	Delaware SB 63 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Darius J. Brown Dave G. Lawson David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Franklin D. Cooke John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby Trey Paradee William Bush William J. Carson	2	11	3	2023-03-09	2023-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/13e0ce47-8e21-48b6-9df0-3e06848d890b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130069	8bb80ce1ca0bac2e8262836e1a56a7f7961ede9f49938498b8a15173ad165376	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 63 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FARMS.

This bill updates the criteria for agriculture, horticulture, or forestry land use.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to SB 63 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-09 Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate introduction
• 2023-03-10 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2023-03-10 Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-03-15 Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-03-17 Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-30 Amendment HA 1 to SB 63 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2023-03-30 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 2 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2023-04-04 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-04-06 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/13e0ce47-8e21-48b6-9df0-3e06848d890b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).