---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 AND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COURTHOUSE MUNICIPALITY FEE."
description: "This Bill increases the courthouse municipality fee assessed on limited liability company (LLC) filings and corporate filings from $20 to $40. The fee is expected to raise $8.5 million to be distributed to the municipalities designated as the places of holding the Court of Chancery. The fee is distributed to the municipality in the county in which a business entity’s registered office is located."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 110"
citation: "Delaware SB 110 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Nicole Poore", "Ruth Briggs King", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-04"
last_action: "2023-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eec9c02b-15b9-4700-af52-9fffd4591611"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130318"
source_hash: "cf0beaa906529635130e8c17a5d2bd0896be9eff2a5caf3be90cfc5997cd90d7"
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 110 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 AND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COURTHOUSE MUNICIPALITY FEE.

This Bill increases the courthouse municipality fee assessed on limited liability company (LLC) filings and corporate filings from $20 to $40. The fee is expected to raise $8.5 million to be distributed to the municipalities designated as the places of holding the Court of Chancery. The fee is distributed to the municipality in the county in which a business entity’s registered office is located.

## 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=130318&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB110)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **28–11** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **19–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-04** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-05** Re-Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-01** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-02** Amendment HA 1 to SB 110 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-22** Amendment HA 1 to SB 110 - Defeated By House. Votes: 16 YES 23 NO 2 ABSENT `amendment-failure`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 28 YES 11 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-07-21** 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/eec9c02b-15b9-4700-af52-9fffd4591611`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).