republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-174.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AN ANIMAL ABUSE OFFENDER LIST.	This Act establishes an animal abuse offender list which will be maintained by the Office of Animal Welfare. The list will be available to the public on the Office of Animal Welfare’s website. The list will contain information regarding adult individuals who are convicted of an animal abuse offense to assist the public and animal agencies in identifying individuals who present a risk to animal welfare. This Act prohibits animal shelters from approving pet adoptions to individuals who are on the animal abuse offender list.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 174	Delaware SB 174 (153)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn David L. Wilson John "Jack" Walsh Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride	2	12	3	2025-06-05	2025-08-21	openstates	ocd-bill/c9c28833-dbad-4b23-9d95-6f6296d12c35	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142428	3a13ba6935a6bd3b54122748c0e427a53bc9fb37fe9caa46594ffb16ea2249ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 174 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AN ANIMAL ABUSE OFFENDER LIST.

This Act establishes an animal abuse offender list which will be maintained by the Office of Animal Welfare. The list will be available to the public on the Office of Animal Welfare’s website. The list will contain information regarding adult individuals who are convicted of an animal abuse offense to assist the public and animal agencies in identifying individuals who present a risk to animal welfare. This Act prohibits animal shelters from approving pet adoptions to individuals who are on the animal abuse offender list.

Version chain

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

1. HA 2 to SB 174 (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 174 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 15–6 (pass) · upper
• SM — 15–3 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-05 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-06-12 Amendment SA 1 to SB 174 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2025-06-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 3 NO 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-12 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 13 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-30 Amendment HA 1 to SB 174 - Stricken in House
• 2025-06-30 Amendment HA 2 to SB 174 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO passage
• 2025-08-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9c28833-dbad-4b23-9d95-6f6296d12c35. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).