---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 23 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PILOTAGE RATES."
description: "This bill establishes the pilotage rates for the Pilots’ Association for the Bay and River Delaware for 2023, 2024, and 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 365"
citation: "Delaware HB 365 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-31"
last_action: "2022-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ff082e5-9ff6-4b70-9b47-6569efca97e5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=99306"
source_hash: "8d4c4765a6d7a0efc93e002a79cb523917dd16c2095753b36cbde626dc6d4cbc"
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 365 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 23 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PILOTAGE RATES.

This bill establishes the pilotage rates for the Pilots’ Association for the Bay and River Delaware for 2023, 2024, and 2025.

## 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=99306&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB365)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **37–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-31** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 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`
- **2022-04-13** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2022-04-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-07-27** 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/3ff082e5-9ff6-4b70-9b47-6569efca97e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).