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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF PENSION TRUSTEES."
description: "The Board of Pension Trustees has established policies and practices for the administration of the Delaware Public Employees Retirement System. Based on the recommendations of the Boards Best Practices review, this Act will codify some of these policies and practices. The Act also indemnifies committee members and clarifies the frequency of Board meetings and authorized methods of communication for obtaining quorum and voting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 199"
citation: "Delaware HB 199 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian J. Bushweller", "John L. Mitchell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-01"
last_action: "2017-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b40191f2-eb5c-4e19-8cdd-6efaa8456805"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25857"
source_hash: "72546fd3bb68acf7d463b494bd92a9e3621119b8af8c600840fcb16586198a1c"
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 199 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF PENSION TRUSTEES.
The Board of Pension Trustees has established policies and practices for the administration of the Delaware Public Employees Retirement System. Based on the recommendations of the Boards Best Practices review, this Act will codify some of these policies and practices. The Act also indemnifies committee members and clarifies the frequency of Board meetings and authorized methods of communication for obtaining quorum and voting.
## 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=25857&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB199)
## Votes
- SM — **170** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-07-17** 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/b40191f2-eb5c-4e19-8cdd-6efaa8456805`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).