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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS."
+description: "ABLE accounts are special savings accounts established for certain persons with disabilities. This bill clarifies the treatment of funds in an ABLE account upon the death of a designated beneficiary. Specifically it prohibits State agencies or instrumentalities from clawing back from the ABLE account any funds it has expended on behalf of a designated beneficiary."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 145"
+citation: "Delaware HB 145 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nicole Poore", "Trey Charles Paradee"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 5
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-04-25"
+last_action: "2017-07-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2b7e81e-9f69-4160-8377-c5dbbeff5ed5"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25659"
+source_hash: "d677ff1f06af4729e96101cd83d2bbf07be23811acaf6a733a43a4f447503736"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 145 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.
+
+ABLE accounts are special savings accounts established for certain persons with disabilities. This bill clarifies the treatment of funds in an ABLE account upon the death of a designated beneficiary. Specifically it prohibits State agencies or instrumentalities from clawing back from the ABLE account any funds it has expended on behalf of a designated beneficiary.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25659&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB145)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Trey Charles Paradee — primary (person)
+- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
+- Melanie George Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-04-25** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2017-07-02** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-07-28** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2b7e81e-9f69-4160-8377-c5dbbeff5ed5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+