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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.	Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a)(1) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited liability company.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 180	Delaware SB 180 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend John L. Mitchell Margaret Rose Henry Melanie George Smith	1	7	2	2018-04-26	2018-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/a3a53fdb-5dcb-49b1-baae-ae47abe87b80	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26551	30e43252f6fac4339be88c2ff613b30414f882dd22798008d1c80e31c9be7035	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 180 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.

Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a)(1) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited liability company.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-26 Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-05 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-06 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3a53fdb-5dcb-49b1-baae-ae47abe87b80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).