---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF HARTLY."
description: "Section 1 establishes the Town’s authority to enact the laws of the Town, its ability to sue and be sued, and its perpetual succession."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 134"
citation: "Delaware HB 134 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave G. Lawson", "Jeffrey N. Spiegelman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51475b2c-8829-47ad-b69f-51a3ff348357"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58538"
source_hash: "cba396679528805ade7557a3ecd039241f957e0391c03a439a0d6017516325b8"
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 134 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF HARTLY.

Section 1 establishes the Town’s authority to enact the laws of the Town, its ability to sue and be sued, and its perpetual succession.

## 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=58538&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1forHB134)
2. **HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68621&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-30** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 134, and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-27** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-13** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2021-05-13** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-05-13** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-15** 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/51475b2c-8829-47ad-b69f-51a3ff348357`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).