republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-175.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6, TITLE 8, AND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VARIOUS FEES AND TAXES CHARGED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE.	This Act alters various fees assessed by the Delaware Secretary of State. The Act provides that most changes to the fees and taxes assessed will take effect on August 1, 2017; however increases to the maximum franchise tax and the late penalty for the filing of an annual franchise tax report shall take effect for the tax year beginning January 1, 2017, and the increase of the assumed par value multiplier for calculation of the corporate franchise tax and the authorized shares multiplier for corporations with greater than 10,000 authorized shares for calculation of the corporate franchise tax shall take effect for the tax year beginning on January 1, 2018.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 175	Delaware HB 175 (149)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short David B. McBride Deborah Hudson F. Gary Simpson Gregory F. Lavelle John J. Viola Margaret Rose Henry Nicole Poore Peter C. Schwartzkopf Valerie Longhurst	1	6	2	2017-05-11	2017-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/c46bb57d-77f7-4849-95cc-3cc2123990a1	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25780	14ce51a194cc8cb9c226ff5b86d773fc93a1d31f32d111685545c4ed734ee0cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 175 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6, TITLE 8, AND TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VARIOUS FEES AND TAXES CHARGED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

This Act alters various fees assessed by the Delaware Secretary of State. The Act provides that most changes to the fees and taxes assessed will take effect on August 1, 2017; however increases to the maximum franchise tax and the late penalty for the filing of an annual franchise tax report shall take effect for the tax year beginning January 1, 2017, and the increase of the assumed par value multiplier for calculation of the corporate franchise tax and the authorized shares multiplier for corporations with greater than 10,000 authorized shares for calculation of the corporate franchise tax shall take effect for the tax year beginning on January 1, 2018.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3/5 — 16–4 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 39–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Deborah Hudson — primary (person)
• F. Gary Simpson — primary (person)
• Gregory F. Lavelle — primary (person)
• John J. Viola — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-11 Introduced in House and Assigned to House Administration Committee introduction
• 2017-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-05-18 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-22 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-15 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c46bb57d-77f7-4849-95cc-3cc2123990a1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).