---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LICENSING FEES AND DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE FUNDING."
description: "Section 1 of this Act allows the Department of Insurance to retain a portion of the licensing fees for insurance professionals in the Regulatory Revolving Fund. Section 1 of this bill also increases the maximum unencumbered balance that the Commissioner shall maintain in the Insurance Commissioner Regulatory Revolving Fund to $5,000,000. The previous balance was set by the General Assembly in 2005. Finally, Section 1 of this Act requires that any unencumbered balance in the Regulatory Revolving Fund in excess of $5,000,000 at the end of each fiscal year be transferred to the General Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 18"
citation: "Delaware HB 18 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kimberly Williams", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbc67aff-cbae-4999-a17c-c931deb611db"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141850"
source_hash: "0afc230774e408d7a4bb21f84a177fa3ebf06ea7c7c99bdcbb3a1ea56f17eb06"
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 18 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LICENSING FEES AND DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE FUNDING.

Section 1 of this Act allows the Department of Insurance to retain a portion of the licensing fees for insurance professionals in the Regulatory Revolving Fund. Section 1 of this bill also increases the maximum unencumbered balance that the Commissioner shall maintain in the Insurance Commissioner Regulatory Revolving Fund to $5,000,000. The previous balance was set by the General Assembly in 2005. Finally, Section 1 of this Act requires that any unencumbered balance in the Regulatory Revolving Fund in excess of $5,000,000 at the end of each fiscal year be transferred to the General Fund.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- 3/5 — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-07** 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/dbc67aff-cbae-4999-a17c-c931deb611db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).