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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TAXES ON PERSONAL INCOME."
+description: "Section 1 of this Act modifies Delaware’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to allow recipients to choose the most beneficial credit to be applied against their Delaware Personal Income Taxes. Under this Act, recipients can choose between a non-refundable credit of up to 20% of the value of the corresponding federal EITC or a refundable EITC credit of up to 4.5% of the value of the corresponding federal EITC."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 16"
+citation: "Delaware HB 16 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "David P. Sokola", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-12-04"
+last_action: "2021-08-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f8e6a0e-7e04-4cd5-b07d-789719580a2b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48193"
+source_hash: "3b62369958dcfa82f3d23f96086d8b0a5edf3625719a5fdb8a53c53800024e63"
+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 16 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TAXES ON PERSONAL INCOME.
+
+Section 1 of this Act modifies Delaware’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to allow recipients to choose the most beneficial credit to be applied against their Delaware Personal Income Taxes. Under this Act, recipients can choose between a non-refundable credit of up to 20% of the value of the corresponding federal EITC or a refundable EITC credit of up to 4.5% of the value of the corresponding federal EITC.
+
+## 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=48193&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB16)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3/5 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-12-04** Introduced and Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-26** Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 11 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-11** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-19** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-03-19** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-03-19** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2021-03-25** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-17** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-08-10** 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/3f8e6a0e-7e04-4cd5-b07d-789719580a2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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