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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MILTON."
+description: "This Act amends the Charter of The Town of Milton. Specifically, Section 1 of the Act allows for an exception to the lengthy annexation process for a contiguous property owner seeking annexation if the property is two acres or less. Section 2 of the Act then sets up that less cumbersome annexation process for properties two acres or less. Section 3 of the Act replaces the list of exceptions to competitive bidding with incorporation by reference of the more detailed Town of Milton Procurement Policy. Section 4 of the Act reinstates a prior limit on real property taxes to a function of the total of assessed values within the Town. Specifically, the “cap” is 0.5% of that total. Currently, the cap is a fixed number, $1,750,000. However, the Town has annexed into its limits a number of parcels that will necessarily require additional expenditures of Town funds for services such as policing and, therefore, the Town will need to collect additional real property taxes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 207"
+citation: "Delaware HB 207 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "Russell Huxtable", "Stell Parker Selby"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-06-06"
+last_action: "2023-08-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d7e2fd3-806f-40db-a57e-c645942fc718"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140521"
+source_hash: "c383c9fdec14209f5083e2a7966186049675ef68e057e48687361f1b2600401d"
+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 207 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MILTON.
+
+This Act amends the Charter of The Town of Milton. Specifically, Section 1 of the Act allows for an exception to the lengthy annexation process for a contiguous property owner seeking annexation if the property is two acres or less. Section 2 of the Act then sets up that less cumbersome annexation process for properties two acres or less. Section 3 of the Act replaces the list of exceptions to competitive bidding with incorporation by reference of the more detailed Town of Milton Procurement Policy. Section 4 of the Act reinstates a prior limit on real property taxes to a function of the total of assessed values within the Town. Specifically, the “cap” is 0.5% of that total. Currently, the cap is a fixed number, $1,750,000. However, the Town has annexed into its limits a number of parcels that will necessarily require additional expenditures of Town funds for services such as policing and, therefore, the Town will need to collect additional real property taxes.
+
+## 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=140521&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB207)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 2/3 — **38–0** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-06** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-15** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-06-15** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-22** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2023-08-01** 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/0d7e2fd3-806f-40db-a57e-c645942fc718`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+