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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 RELATING TO THE DELAWARE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL POLICE/FIREFIGHTER PENSION PLAN"
+description: "The purpose of this bill is to make full time paid firefighters in volunteer fire companies in this State eligible to join the Delaware County and Municipal/Police/Firefighter Pension Plan."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 265"
+citation: "Delaware HB 265 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "John L. Mitchell"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 5
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-06-29"
+last_action: "2017-09-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42bf5186-abcb-43bb-af49-562af28b0181"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26130"
+source_hash: "04060fd258d45064dab6935d7294337e3208b2547224c6a22327bdac92e1e753"
+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 265 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 RELATING TO THE DELAWARE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL POLICE/FIREFIGHTER PENSION PLAN
+
+The purpose of this bill is to make full time paid firefighters in volunteer fire companies in this State eligible to join the Delaware County and Municipal/Police/Firefighter Pension Plan.
+
+## 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=26130&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB265)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-06-29** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-07-02** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-09-15** 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/42bf5186-abcb-43bb-af49-562af28b0181`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+