---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LAUREL."
description: "This bill increases the amount of money the Town of Laurel is permitted to raise from levying and collecting taxes from $500,000 to $2,500,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 172"
citation: "Delaware HB 172 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Timothy D. Dukes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-01"
last_action: "2023-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/605591d6-7b4f-4908-8b30-28f3d595194a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140445"
source_hash: "498b62ae692840a7b6254f53075f85217dcb5cd798a4e98d8c3c66525b9999fd"
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 172 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LAUREL.

This bill increases the amount of money the Town of Laurel is permitted to raise from levying and collecting taxes from $500,000 to $2,500,000.

## 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=140445&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB172)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-08** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-08** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-09-21** 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/605591d6-7b4f-4908-8b30-28f3d595194a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).