---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HARRINGTON RELATING TO THE POWER TO IMPOSE AND COLLECT A LODGING TAX."
description: "This Act is a Substitute for and differs from Senate Bill No. 51 by removing the retroactive effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 51"
citation: "Delaware SB 51 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Wilson", "Shannon Morris"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-15"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fde13b53-8c6e-4031-a1f7-ce2a5b1cd371"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142299"
source_hash: "47a0b91def8796d01a5c070c50d306f26b1e936cb985f15915609a055eda795c"
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 51 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HARRINGTON RELATING TO THE POWER TO IMPOSE AND COLLECT A LODGING TAX.

This Act is a Substitute for and differs from Senate Bill No. 51 by removing the retroactive effective date.

## 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

- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Shannon Morris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-15** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 51 `introduction`
- **2025-05-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2025-05-20** 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`
- **2025-07-30** 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/fde13b53-8c6e-4031-a1f7-ce2a5b1cd371`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).