republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-163.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INCOME TAX RETURN.	Currently there are 17 "check-boxes" on the Delaware personal income tax return where taxpayers may designate a portion of their refund or send additional money with their payment due to be credited as a charitable donation to various organizations. The number of organizations has continued to grow over the years without any charities being removed. As a result, a relatively stable total amount of donations is being spread across a larger number of causes, reducing the utility for any single charity and increasing the administrative burden on the Division of Revenue. This bill eliminates the two lowest grossing charitable funds - for the US Olympic Committee and for the Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund, and replaces them with Funds for the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children and the United Way of Delaware. It also adds a provision to the code capping the number of permissible charity check-offs on the return at 21.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 163	Delaware HB 163 (149)	bill		enacted	David P. Sokola Michael Ramone Paul S. Baumbach	1	11	2	2017-05-09	2018-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f35a26b9-d534-401f-b935-f9480321a201	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25742	9979220a45ed06110d46466e4530fbfb8b60e282e9ffc354eb358d99c503e0d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 163 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INCOME TAX RETURN.

Currently there are 17 "check-boxes" on the Delaware personal income tax return where taxpayers may designate a portion of their refund or send additional money with their payment due to be credited as a charitable donation to various organizations. The number of organizations has continued to grow over the years without any charities being removed. As a result, a relatively stable total amount of donations is being spread across a larger number of causes, reducing the utility for any single charity and increasing the administrative burden on the Division of Revenue. This bill eliminates the two lowest grossing charitable funds - for the US Olympic Committee and for the Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund, and replaces them with Funds for the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children and the United Way of Delaware. It also adds a provision to the code capping the number of permissible charity check-offs on the return at 21.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Michael Ramone — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-09 Introduced and Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2017-06-29 Amendment HA 2 to HB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-29 Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-29 Amendment HA 2 to HB 163 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2017-07-12 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2018-10-01 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f35a26b9-d534-401f-b935-f9480321a201. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).