Delaware Senate Bill 24 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)
Status: Passed on September 17 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-09-17 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [HTML]

The intent of this Act is to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the environment and to raise awareness of the need to properly dispose of balloons. To that end, this Act imposes a civil penalty for the violation of intentionally releasing 5 or more balloons filled with air or lighter-than-air gases, to prevent litter which blights our communities and environment and causes harm to wildlife and marine animals. The release of multiple balloons at 1 time is a single offense under this Act. This Act also establishes that intentionally releasing 1 to 4 balloons at 1 time is littering.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Litter Control Law.

Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Sen. David Lawson [R]	Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]
Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Gerald Brady [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]
Rep. Sherae'a Moore [D]

2021-06-24 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-03-11 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 19 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-09-17		Signed by Governor
2021-06-24		Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT
2021-03-17		Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2021-03-12		Assigned to Natural Resources Committee in House
2021-03-11		Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING
2021-03-11		was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 24

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Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41774
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#52545