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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAMES, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT."
+description: "This Act removes the registration of trade names for sole proprietorships, partnerships, and associations in the Superior Court prothonotaries and places registration of such trade names with the Division of Revenue. Additionally, this Act provides that the filing of certificates will be recorded electronically and the fee for such filing is $25.00. Under Superior Court Civil R. 77(h), the current filing fee is $25.00. This change updates the statute consistent with the current fee collected by the Superior Court."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 291"
+citation: "Delaware SB 291 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kyle Evans Gay", "Nicole Poore"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-05-08"
+last_action: "2024-09-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/409996f5-c12c-496a-9636-d6bc7798e83c"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141322"
+source_hash: "de8e90e557af103c6de86c680728ed9c81377995ff6e546bb3455bd9cf483137"
+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 SB 291 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAMES, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.
+
+This Act removes the registration of trade names for sole proprietorships, partnerships, and associations in the Superior Court prothonotaries and places registration of such trade names with the Division of Revenue. Additionally, this Act provides that the filing of certificates will be recorded electronically and the fee for such filing is $25.00. Under Superior Court Civil R. 77(h), the current filing fee is $25.00. This change updates the statute consistent with the current fee collected by the Superior Court.
+
+## 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=141322&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB291)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-08** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-05-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-05-22** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-09-30** 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/409996f5-c12c-496a-9636-d6bc7798e83c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+