republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-45.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.	This Act clarifies (i) how personal jurisdiction shall be obtained over nonresident respondents in administrative proceedings brought by the Director of Consumer Protection pursuant to Section 2523, Title 29 of the Code, and (ii) the manner in which service of process may be made upon respondents in those proceedings.This Act also empowers administrative hearing officers appointed under Section 2523(b), Title 29 to issue subpoenas upon request of the parties to the administrative proceeding, in order to enable the parties to present evidence not otherwise available to them.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 45	Delaware HB 45 (149)	bill		enacted	Helene M. Keeley Margaret Rose Henry	1	11	2	2017-01-19	2017-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/6fe51f74-a3e1-437d-b064-17ee8eafc3df	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25405	b776a38e070d55e7c9f4e7ae67e686c43c9e02bc86e3d880a9cd9ac7b80e19b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 45 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.

This Act clarifies (i) how personal jurisdiction shall be obtained over nonresident respondents in administrative proceedings brought by the Director of Consumer Protection pursuant to Section 2523, Title 29 of the Code, and (ii) the manner in which service of process may be made upon respondents in those proceedings.This Act also empowers administrative hearing officers appointed under Section 2523(b), Title 29 to issue subpoenas upon request of the parties to the administrative proceeding, in order to enable the parties to present evidence not otherwise available to them.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-19 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 Amendment HA 1 to HB 45 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-05 Amendment HA 2 to HB 45 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 45 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-08 Amendment HA 2 to HB 45 - Defeated By House. Votes: 9 YES 29 NO 3 ABSENT amendment-failure
• 2017-06-08 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-09 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-09-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6fe51f74-a3e1-437d-b064-17ee8eafc3df. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).