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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PERSONAL INCOME TAX."
description: "This bill will add 4 new check-off donation boxes on the Delaware personal income tax return whereby individuals may choose to donate a portion of their tax refund, or designate an amount in addition to the tax they owe that will be transferred by the Division of Revenue to one of the following organizations: Food Bank of Delaware, Sussex County Habitat for Humanity, Central Delaware Habitat for Humanity, or Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Delaware HB 61 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9637eaea-927c-4565-ac06-a129019e8f4e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25432"
source_hash: "bcdaac90de2acacf8273c11415e8d6a43d7a5d00591911528808b5aa4851f376"
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 61 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PERSONAL INCOME TAX.
This bill will add 4 new check-off donation boxes on the Delaware personal income tax return whereby individuals may choose to donate a portion of their tax refund, or designate an amount in addition to the tax they owe that will be transferred by the Division of Revenue to one of the following organizations: Food Bank of Delaware, Sussex County Habitat for Humanity, Central Delaware Habitat for Humanity, or Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County.
## 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=25432&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB61)
## Votes
- SM — **170** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-26** Introduced and Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-28** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-03-28** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 2 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-09-14** 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/9637eaea-927c-4565-ac06-a129019e8f4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).