---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW."
description: "Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a)(1) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited liability company."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 180"
citation: "Delaware SB 180 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "John L. Mitchell", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Melanie George Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-26"
last_action: "2018-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3a53fdb-5dcb-49b1-baae-ae47abe87b80"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26551"
source_hash: "30e43252f6fac4339be88c2ff613b30414f882dd22798008d1c80e31c9be7035"
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 180 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.

Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a)(1) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited liability company.

## 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=26551&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB180)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-26** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-05** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-06** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2018-07-23** 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/a3a53fdb-5dcb-49b1-baae-ae47abe87b80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).