republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-72.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 18, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.	This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 72	Delaware SB 72 (149)	bill		enacted	Anthony Delcollo Bryan Townsend John L. Mitchell Margaret Rose Henry Melanie George Smith Sean M. Lynn Stephanie L. Hansen	1	10	2	2017-05-05	2017-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/be882d7d-a6dc-43a6-9909-ef48c15fc3dc	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25733	0fdf694e5edca533c031c080a58e794aeac127dad4ba48a697610bc27feaf1f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 72 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 18, TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CREATION, REGULATION, OPERATION AND DISSOLUTION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES AND THE REGISTRATION AND REGULATION OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.

This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act.

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 — 39–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-05 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-06 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2017-06-06 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2017-06-06 Amendment SA 1 to SB 72 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-06-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2017-06-07 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be882d7d-a6dc-43a6-9909-ef48c15fc3dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).