---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT."
description: "This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Newport in the following ways:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 298"
citation: "Delaware SB 298 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Darius J. Brown", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Marie Pinkney", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-09"
last_action: "2024-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89dde0b2-c389-415f-8481-189a5a098e18"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141343"
source_hash: "db9ca47945d704d4f0255b8cac61f176c5793ad2938400d3470d6052c2781bd1"
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 298 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT.

This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Newport in the following ways:

## 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=141343&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB298)
2. **SA 1 to SB 298** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141529&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-06** Amendment SA 1 to SB 298 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 298 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-06-12** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2024-08-29** 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/89dde0b2-c389-415f-8481-189a5a098e18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).