republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-264.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY PROPERTY TAX RATES AND MUNICIPALITIES.	This Act represents one of the recommendations of the Local Service Functions Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 54. This Act revises the process by which the New Castle County tax rate for owners of real property in municipalities is calculated to reflect fire company contributions made by the municipality. This process does not consider as an in-kind contribution from New Castle County or a municipality the property tax that a fire company does not pay because real property owned by fire companies is exempt from taxation. Because no property tax is due, it is not an amount that either New Castle County or a municipality is waiving.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 264	Delaware HB 264 (150)	bill		enacted	Catherine Cloutier David P. Sokola Kevin S Hensley Paul S. Baumbach	1	7	2	2020-01-09	2020-02-20	openstates	ocd-bill/812edfb4-4848-45b8-9ff1-119e693c11f7	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47931	3c79f7b5bd3e59b3aea9d6cbc4661045d69cd493dcdee370d63d269f58e20ef6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 264 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY PROPERTY TAX RATES AND MUNICIPALITIES.

This Act represents one of the recommendations of the Local Service Functions Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 54. This Act revises the process by which the New Castle County tax rate for owners of real property in municipalities is calculated to reflect fire company contributions made by the municipality. This process does not consider as an in-kind contribution from New Castle County or a municipality the property tax that a fire company does not pay because real property owned by fire companies is exempt from taxation. Because no property tax is due, it is not an amount that either New Castle County or a municipality is waiving.

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 — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-09 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2020-01-16 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2020-01-16 Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2020-01-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2020-02-20 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/812edfb4-4848-45b8-9ff1-119e693c11f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).