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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 72"
citation: "Delaware SB 72 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Delcollo", "Bryan Townsend", "John L. Mitchell", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Melanie George Smith", "Sean M. Lynn", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-05"
last_action: "2017-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be882d7d-a6dc-43a6-9909-ef48c15fc3dc"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25733"
source_hash: "0fdf694e5edca533c031c080a58e794aeac127dad4ba48a697610bc27feaf1f7"
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 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25733&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB72)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **391** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be882d7d-a6dc-43a6-9909-ef48c15fc3dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).