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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT."
+description: "This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Newport in the following ways:"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 298"
+citation: "Delaware SB 298 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Marie Pinkney", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-05-09"
+last_action: "2024-08-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89dde0b2-c389-415f-8481-189a5a098e18"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141343"
+source_hash: "db9ca47945d704d4f0255b8cac61f176c5793ad2938400d3470d6052c2781bd1"
+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 298 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT.
+
+This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Newport in the following ways:
+
+## 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=141343&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB298)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 298** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141529&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-06** Amendment SA 1 to SB 298 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-06-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 298 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-06-12** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2024-08-29** 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/89dde0b2-c389-415f-8481-189a5a098e18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+