---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROCESSING OF REFUNDS OF OVERPAYMENTS."
description: "This bill removes the requirement that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget approve Title 18-related refunds of overpayments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 322"
citation: "Delaware HB 322 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab46513e-43f8-417f-b249-48aa3611edca"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79168"
source_hash: "04960d471518ca32cd9a0a5865f34b17574528652e9cb428d65937b6cfe16531"
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 322 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROCESSING OF REFUNDS OF OVERPAYMENTS.

This bill removes the requirement that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget approve Title 18-related refunds of overpayments.

## 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=79168&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB322)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-03** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-10** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-04** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-14** 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/ab46513e-43f8-417f-b249-48aa3611edca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).