---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HARRINGTON RELATING TO CITY ELECTED OFFICES AND CITY FINANCES."
description: "This Act amends the City of Harrington Charter to impose term limits on Mayor (2 terms) and Council Members (3 terms)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 62"
citation: "Delaware HB 62 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["F. Gary Simpson", "William R. Outten"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-09"
last_action: "2017-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/385f59c6-9513-4c60-b12c-9f49b07727f1"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25439"
source_hash: "1815b9406ec5b45e6e8f8957d0cc13a340cc20e956cc9fcf46940699171af465"
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 62 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HARRINGTON RELATING TO CITY ELECTED OFFICES AND CITY FINANCES.

This Act amends the City of Harrington Charter to impose term limits on Mayor (2 terms) and Council Members (3 terms).

## 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=25439&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB62)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- F. Gary Simpson — primary (person)
- William R. Outten — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-09** Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-03-28** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2017-05-03** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-08** 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/385f59c6-9513-4c60-b12c-9f49b07727f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).