---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO CREATE THE 2022 DELAWARE RELIEF REBATE PROGRAM."
description: "The Act, which shall be known as the 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program, creates a “relief rebate” which is a one-time direct payment of $300 per Delaware resident taxpayer. This relief is intended to help Delawareans grappling with significant inflation at the grocery store and gas pump."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 360"
citation: "Delaware HB 360 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Daniel B. Short", "David P. Sokola", "Gerald W. Hocker", "John L. Mitchell", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Timothy D. Dukes", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-01"
last_action: "2022-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6442631f-3ca5-4102-b842-81b07de7a136"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=99311"
source_hash: "55fbdba53a045c9ea5b44829e9cde638ea0312db80f0760d111fa4bc11b0a829"
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 360 (151) — AN ACT TO CREATE THE 2022 DELAWARE RELIEF REBATE PROGRAM.

The Act, which shall be known as the 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program, creates a “relief rebate” which is a one-time direct payment of $300 per Delaware resident taxpayer. This relief is intended to help Delawareans grappling with significant inflation at the grocery store and gas pump.

## 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=99311&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB360)
2. **HA 1 to HB 360** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=99333&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **35–3** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Charles "Bud" M. Freel — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-01** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Amendment HA 1 to HB 360 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-04-07** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2022-04-07** Amendment HA 1 to HB 360 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-07** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 3 NO 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-13** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-04-13** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-14** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-04-14** 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/6442631f-3ca5-4102-b842-81b07de7a136`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).