---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL POLICE/FIREFIGHTER PENSION PLAN."
description: "This Act includes “emergency medical technicians” within the definition of employee under the County/Municipal Police/Firefighter Pension Plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "Delaware HB 312 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "John L. Mitchell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80de54b6-cc71-45e8-8b69-262248099e35"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26300"
source_hash: "01f13153cca3c4356f016acc4a96fa8d9ec030965c162e1288bdd213ed2cb047"
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 312 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL POLICE/FIREFIGHTER PENSION PLAN.

This Act includes “emergency medical technicians” within the definition of employee under the County/Municipal Police/Firefighter Pension Plan.

## 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=26300&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB312)

## Votes

- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-25** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-22** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-03-28** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-08-10** 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/80de54b6-cc71-45e8-8b69-262248099e35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).