---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS."
description: "This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the “Act”) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 274"
citation: "Delaware SB 274 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Krista Griffith", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Sean M. Lynn", "Stephanie L. Hansen", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-04-28"
last_action: "2022-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eae8d04a-ae05-4172-be1d-2dcb33de9787"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109404"
source_hash: "627163f37e9fa687614a070012b33b08d20e83fcd304514f78494b68d8237d2a"
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 SB 274 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS.

This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the “Act”) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act.

## 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=109404&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB274)
2. **HA 1 to SB 274** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=119636&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-28** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-04** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-05-13** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** Amendment HA 1 to SB 274 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-08** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-14** Amendment HA 1 to SB 274 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-14** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `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/eae8d04a-ae05-4172-be1d-2dcb33de9787`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).