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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WOODSIDE."
description: "Section 1 clarifies the Towns nuisance and dangerous building abatement powers and requires property owners to pay for the abatement costs. This section further clarifies the Towns ability to grant franchises, licenses, and permits, and impose fees for the same. It authorizes the Town to impose a realty transfer tax, and it increases the maximum penalty for a code violation to $500.00."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 379"
citation: "Delaware HB 379 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Colin Bonini", "Lyndon D. Yearick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-04-24"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c529984-1d2d-4ed3-b99c-497f1c7508d5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26533"
source_hash: "6edb4d6905872ee69fc6975324655a57837b8d24148e87c703faaba383fc1c55"
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 379 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WOODSIDE.
Section 1 clarifies the Towns nuisance and dangerous building abatement powers and requires property owners to pay for the abatement costs. This section further clarifies the Towns ability to grant franchises, licenses, and permits, and impose fees for the same. It authorizes the Town to impose a realty transfer tax, and it increases the maximum penalty for a code violation to $500.00.
## 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=26533&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB379)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **190** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **370** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Colin Bonini — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-04-24** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-03** Amendment HA 1 to HB 379 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-03** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-05-08** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-12** Amendment SA 1 to HB 379 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-19** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-07-01** 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/5c529984-1d2d-4ed3-b99c-497f1c7508d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).