---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES."
description: "This Act requires the Director of the Sustainable Energy Utility to administer a program to provide financial assistance to Delaware residents for the cost of purchase and installation of electric vehicle supply equipment. For a low-income applicant (meaning up to 300% of the federal poverty level for household income), financial assistance covering up to 90% of the purchase and installation costs may be covered. For all other applicants the program may offer assistance to cover up to 50% of the costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 13"
citation: "Delaware HB 13 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Sophie Phillips", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-14"
last_action: "2024-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/744f9f7d-c653-4840-a5e1-1c7762e6c9c3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141068"
source_hash: "f71e5a285edba209aa0429d33d3ccb3de12ba13af2444722518ea6ee818dc2e8"
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 13 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES.

This Act requires the Director of the Sustainable Energy Utility to administer a program to provide financial assistance to Delaware residents for the cost of purchase and installation of electric vehicle supply equipment. For a low-income applicant (meaning up to 300% of the federal poverty level for household income), financial assistance covering up to 90% of the purchase and installation costs may be covered. For all other applicants the program may offer assistance to cover up to 50% of the costs.

## 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=141068&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS2forHB13)

## Votes

- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
- SM — **21–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sophie Phillips — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-14** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 13, and Assigned to Natural Resources & Energy Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-18** Passed By House. Votes: 21 YES 13 NO 7 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2024-09-05** 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/744f9f7d-c653-4840-a5e1-1c7762e6c9c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).