---
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) 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 partnership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 341"
citation: "Delaware HB 341 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Delcollo", "Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Krista Griffith", "Sean M. Lynn", "Stephanie L. Hansen", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-06-05"
last_action: "2020-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da2c84ab-4858-46aa-9bfd-e966f87c2b4b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48122"
source_hash: "442e427e05a5a1cc04aa1a7cc21530d65db2b624d32799652c0e4372de3abd06"
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 341 (150) — 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) 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 partnership.

## 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=48122&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB341)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **40–1** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anthony Delcollo — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-18** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2020-06-18** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2020-06-23** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2020-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2020-07-16** 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/da2c84ab-4858-46aa-9bfd-e966f87c2b4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).