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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DELAWARE CITY RELATING TO THE POWER TO RAISE REVENUE."
description: "This Act amends the Municipal Charter of the City of Delaware City by allowing the Mayor and Council to impose a lodging tax of no more than 3%."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "Delaware SB 98 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-05-14"
last_action: "2019-07-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14597b41-a212-408b-8558-5647ed963ebd"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47482"
source_hash: "d1088387cc5b5c829a46ea1e2c5aa8a319758424110b152b0a7cc415728fd2f3"
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 98 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DELAWARE CITY RELATING TO THE POWER TO RAISE REVENUE.
This Act amends the Municipal Charter of the City of Delaware City by allowing the Mayor and Council to impose a lodging tax of no more than 3%.
## 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=47482&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB98)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **410** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-05-14** Introduced and Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-06-07** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-04** 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/14597b41-a212-408b-8558-5647ed963ebd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).