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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HUNTING AND FISHING AUTHORIZATIONS."
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description: "This Act modernizes fishing, hunting, and trapping license and associated waterfowl and trout stamp specifications to include digital formats. This Act refines the definition of waterfowl consistent with the gamebird waterfowl definition in existing code for determining when a waterfowl stamp is required to hunt waterfowl. This Act also eliminates trout catch reporting requirements, clarifies when and where a trout fishing stamp is required for fishing, and corrects certain trout stamp exemptions in the current code."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 218"
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citation: "Delaware HB 218 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Jeffrey N. Spiegelman", "William J. Carson"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-06-03"
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last_action: "2021-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6d3f9ed-51ee-4c90-91c4-316f04fb168c"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78799"
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source_hash: "2e516e040cab89436f8a2c8ce6236f53ba1924509444d8d306e3200abc6ba143"
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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 HB 218 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HUNTING AND FISHING AUTHORIZATIONS.
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This Act modernizes fishing, hunting, and trapping license and associated waterfowl and trout stamp specifications to include digital formats. This Act refines the definition of waterfowl consistent with the gamebird waterfowl definition in existing code for determining when a waterfowl stamp is required to hunt waterfowl. This Act also eliminates trout catch reporting requirements, clarifies when and where a trout fishing stamp is required for fishing, and corrects certain trout stamp exemptions in the current code.
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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=78799&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB218)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
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- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — primary (person)
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- William J. Carson — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-18** Suspension of Rules in House
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- **2021-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2021-06-22** Assigned to Environment & Energy Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-24** Reported Out of Committee (Environment & Energy) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2021-09-30** 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/c6d3f9ed-51ee-4c90-91c4-316f04fb168c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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