---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF FENWICK ISLAND."
description: "This Act amends the Charter of Fenwick Island to provide examples of documents that can be used to prove residency in the Town of Fenwick Island for purposes of voting in the annual municipal elections and change the limit on borrowing from $500,000 in any 1 year to 5% of the total assessed value of all non-tax-exempt real property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 167"
citation: "Delaware SB 167 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald W. Hocker", "Ronald E. Gray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-28"
last_action: "2018-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f5587a8-1769-4b8e-96f1-c3ff0243cb15"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26420"
source_hash: "9281b2914fdcbf140be0b762979bf725134b5bcd489823a5304f2447fe082e28"
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 167 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF FENWICK ISLAND.

This Act amends the Charter of Fenwick Island to provide examples of documents that can be used to prove residency in the Town of Fenwick Island for purposes of voting in the annual municipal elections and change the limit on borrowing from $500,000 in any 1 year to 5% of the total assessed value of all non-tax-exempt real property.

## 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=26420&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB167)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **37–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gerald W. Hocker — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-28** Introduced and Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-04-26** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-03** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-07** 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/9f5587a8-1769-4b8e-96f1-c3ff0243cb15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).