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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF REHOBOTH BEACH RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AND VOTING."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "150"
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identifier: "HB 34"
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citation: "Delaware HB 34 (150)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-01-07"
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last_action: "2019-03-27"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b352e52-55b4-499a-9058-4b6812d4b772"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=27070"
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source_hash: "a95a0d2fa3855165cdad01af74d9ba609c33165b144ca17450d55d0faf977748"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 34 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF REHOBOTH BEACH RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS AND VOTING.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=27070&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB34)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- 2/3 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-07** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-16** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2019-01-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2019-01-22** Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-06** Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2019-03-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2019-03-27** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b352e52-55b4-499a-9058-4b6812d4b772`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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