---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 15, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS."
description: "This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the \"Act\") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 181"
citation: "Delaware SB 181 (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/8d366728-40a1-4b41-8c1e-f2a74e2102fc"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26552"
source_hash: "ea38b9e7838788c948fbea7248bafd619ca240c5ac524129126b9f7be010a7e8"
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 181 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 15, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS.

This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act.

## 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=26552&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB181)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## 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: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-06-06** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 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/8d366728-40a1-4b41-8c1e-f2a74e2102fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).