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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 RELATING TO THE DELAWARE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL POLICE/FIREFIGHTER PENSION PLAN"
description: "The purpose of this bill is to make full time paid firefighters in volunteer fire companies in this State eligible to join the Delaware County and Municipal/Police/Firefighter Pension Plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Delaware HB 265 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "John L. Mitchell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-29"
last_action: "2017-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42bf5186-abcb-43bb-af49-562af28b0181"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26130"
source_hash: "04060fd258d45064dab6935d7294337e3208b2547224c6a22327bdac92e1e753"
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 265 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 RELATING TO THE DELAWARE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL POLICE/FIREFIGHTER PENSION PLAN
The purpose of this bill is to make full time paid firefighters in volunteer fire companies in this State eligible to join the Delaware County and Municipal/Police/Firefighter Pension Plan.
## 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=26130&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB265)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **190** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-06-29** Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-07-02** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-09-15** 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/42bf5186-abcb-43bb-af49-562af28b0181`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).