---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SELBYVILLE RELATING TO ELECTIONS."
description: "This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Selbyville (Selbyville) by doing all of the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 39"
citation: "Delaware SB 39 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald W. Hocker", "Richard G. Collins"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0eae7a39-2d50-49d5-8996-a686677a9e75"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141762"
source_hash: "4cfee2bb20e1bb85905dd401b74ea6bc4045e3de345434a4f43797da22338205"
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 39 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SELBYVILLE RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Selbyville (Selbyville) by doing all of the following:

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- 2/3 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gerald W. Hocker — primary (person)
- Richard G. Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-07** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-24** 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/0eae7a39-2d50-49d5-8996-a686677a9e75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).