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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN."
+description: "This Act repeals a provision in the State Employees’ Pension Plan that included participants in the Division for the Visually Impaired’s (“DVI”) Business Enterprise Program (“BEP”) in the State pension plan. BEP participants are meant to be independent blind entrepreneurs operating their own vending facilities in federal and state properties, as authorized by the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 U.S.C. § 107 et seq.)."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "HB 301"
+citation: "Delaware HB 301 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Bentz", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 6
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-03-12"
+last_action: "2020-06-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bc50e6a-8cfb-407c-8fa3-01e8d687eb6b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48045"
+source_hash: "c037181a5750ba105de539ce4aa6a92eca1ce16253b5048bcfd9ad4be5818c08"
+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 301 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE EMPLOYEES' PENSION PLAN.
+
+This Act repeals a provision in the State Employees’ Pension Plan that included participants in the Division for the Visually Impaired’s (“DVI”) Business Enterprise Program (“BEP”) in the State pension plan. BEP participants are meant to be independent blind entrepreneurs operating their own vending facilities in federal and state properties, as authorized by the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 U.S.C. § 107 et seq.).
+
+## 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=48045&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB301)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Bentz — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-04** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2020-06-11** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2020-06-16** Suspension of Rules in Senate
+- **2020-06-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2020-06-22** 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/6bc50e6a-8cfb-407c-8fa3-01e8d687eb6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+