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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL FUNDS.	This Act relates to police and fire pension funds created under Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The General Assembly created a special fund in the hopes of ensuring adequate pensions for affected police officers and firefighters, and their surviving spouses. This has not come to pass with regard to all pensions, however. By way of example only, the average surviving spouse in the Wilmington Police and Fire retirement plan receives a pension of only $10,080, which is $1,090 dollars below the 2012 poverty level. Moreover, there have been only five disbursements under the special fund in its 48 year history. To address this, the Act would allow for an additional manner of providing distributions from the related special fund established for Police and Fire pensions. Specifically, disbursements from the fund to be made under this Act would be biennial and structured in 3 categories. The 3 categories are based upon length of retirement and whether the eligible individual is a surviving spouse or receiving a disability pension.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 11	Delaware SB 11 (149)	bill		enacted	Harris B. McDowell Helene M. Keeley	1	10	3	2018-03-28	2018-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/960b4859-d300-459d-afcf-4d0364de0731	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25360	2ba278a9baee1ab2add673c9eb8239617e1b675bb5b55c38465f28d5ff31bab3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 11 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL FUNDS.

This Act relates to police and fire pension funds created under Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The General Assembly created a special fund in the hopes of ensuring adequate pensions for affected police officers and firefighters, and their surviving spouses. This has not come to pass with regard to all pensions, however. By way of example only, the average surviving spouse in the Wilmington Police and Fire retirement plan receives a pension of only $10,080, which is $1,090 dollars below the 2012 poverty level. Moreover, there have been only five disbursements under the special fund in its 48 year history. To address this, the Act would allow for an additional manner of providing distributions from the related special fund established for Police and Fire pensions. Specifically, disbursements from the fund to be made under this Act would be biennial and structured in 3 categories. The 3 categories are based upon length of retirement and whether the eligible individual is a surviving spouse or receiving a disability pension.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 15–2 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-28 Introduced and Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 2 NO 1 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-07 Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-19 Amendment HA 1 to SB 11 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to SB 11 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2018-08-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/960b4859-d300-459d-afcf-4d0364de0731. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).