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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ANGEL INVESTOR JOB CREATION AND INNOVATION ACT ."
description: "This legislation, the Angel Investor Job Creation and Innovation Act for Small Technology Companies, creates an incentive for qualified angel investors to invest capital in qualified Delaware small technology companies.."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 170"
citation: "Delaware HB 170 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryon H. Short", "Catherine Cloutier", "David L. Wilson", "Melanie George Smith", "Michael Ramone"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-05-10"
last_action: "2018-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/216f25c4-c293-48a1-88ed-d829f99919a8"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25737"
source_hash: "0d394fc8ac53dc4ab66b61cce85a53962253a52948d836a5cc7409f6b32fe348"
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 170 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ANGEL INVESTOR JOB CREATION AND INNOVATION ACT .
This legislation, the Angel Investor Job Creation and Innovation Act for Small Technology Companies, creates an incentive for qualified angel investors to invest capital in qualified Delaware small technology companies..
## 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=25737&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB170)
## Votes
- SM — **392** (pass) · lower
- SM — **147** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Charles S Postles Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-05-10** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-08** Amendment HA 1 to HB 170 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-08** Amendment HA 1 to HB 170 - Stricken in House
- **2017-07-02** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2017-07-12** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** Amendment SA 1 to HB 170 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-19** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-24** Amendment SA 1 to HB 170 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-24** Laid On Table in Senate
- **2018-04-25** Lifted From Table in Senate
- **2018-04-25** Laid On Table in Senate
- **2018-04-25** Lifted From Table in Senate
- **2018-04-25** Amendment SA 1 to HB 170 - Reconsidered by Senate
- **2018-04-25** Amendment SA 1 to SA 1 to HB 170 - Introduced and Placed with Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-25** Amendment SA 1 to SA 1 to HB 170 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-25** Amendment SA 1 to HB 170 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-25** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO `passage`
- **2018-05-01** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 NO `passage`
- **2018-05-24** 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/216f25c4-c293-48a1-88ed-d829f99919a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).