republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-34.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF REHOBOTH BEACH RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AND VOTING.	This Act amends the Charter of the City of Rehoboth Beach to make Sections 3 through 7 gender-neutral, to provide travel reimbursement at the Internal Revenue Service rate rather than the Sussex County Sheriff’s rate, to reduce the ownership requirement for non-resident freeholders for voter eligibility from six months to thirty days, to make the City’s process to purge individuals from the Books of Registered Voters consistent with the State’s process at 15 Del. C §1704(g), to allow for voter registration up to thirty days prior to the Annual Municipal Election, to amend the definition of real property to include condominiums created under the Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, to reduce the durational residency requirement for voter eligibility from six months to thirty days, to define “domicile,” and to clarify that all voting provisions in the City Charter (including annual municipal elections, annexation elections and borrowing and bond issuance elections) shall be construed in accordance with the principle of “one person, one vote,” and removes any form of artificial entity voting from annexation elections and borrowing and bond issuance elections.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 34	Delaware HB 34 (150)	bill		enacted	Ernesto B Lopez Peter C. Schwartzkopf	1	7	2	2019-01-07	2019-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/0b352e52-55b4-499a-9058-4b6812d4b772	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=27070	a95a0d2fa3855165cdad01af74d9ba609c33165b144ca17450d55d0faf977748	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 34 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF REHOBOTH BEACH RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AND VOTING.

This Act amends the Charter of the City of Rehoboth Beach to make Sections 3 through 7 gender-neutral, to provide travel reimbursement at the Internal Revenue Service rate rather than the Sussex County Sheriff’s rate, to reduce the ownership requirement for non-resident freeholders for voter eligibility from six months to thirty days, to make the City’s process to purge individuals from the Books of Registered Voters consistent with the State’s process at 15 Del. C §1704(g), to allow for voter registration up to thirty days prior to the Annual Municipal Election, to amend the definition of real property to include condominiums created under the Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, to reduce the durational residency requirement for voter eligibility from six months to thirty days, to define “domicile,” and to clarify that all voting provisions in the City Charter (including annual municipal elections, annexation elections and borrowing and bond issuance elections) shall be construed in accordance with the principle of “one person, one vote,” and removes any form of artificial entity voting from annexation elections and borrowing and bond issuance elections.

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

• Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-07 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-01-16 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-01-22 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-01-22 Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-03-06 Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-03-19 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-03-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b352e52-55b4-499a-9058-4b6812d4b772. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).