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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY PROPERTY TAX RATES."
description: "This Act represents the work and recommendations of the Local Service Functions Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 54 of the 150th General Assembly (“Task Force”). The Task Force held 17 meetings during 2019 and 2020 and after considerable research and discussion, the members of the Task Force unanimously approved recommending these changes to the New Castle County budgeting process. In order to implement these changes for the Fiscal Year 2023 budget (“FY 23 Budget”), the first deadline in this Act that New Castle County must meet is January 31, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 11"
citation: "Delaware HB 11 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Kevin S Hensley", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-11"
last_action: "2021-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5baa912e-be9e-460a-a633-e72ba6362b76"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48211"
source_hash: "78a37f6bfac295061ab48cc29bc972cb035c055c4b94edaca8bca0921063e9e2"
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 HB 11 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY PROPERTY TAX RATES.
This Act represents the work and recommendations of the Local Service Functions Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 54 of the 150th General Assembly (“Task Force”). The Task Force held 17 meetings during 2019 and 2020 and after considerable research and discussion, the members of the Task Force unanimously approved recommending these changes to the New Castle County budgeting process. In order to implement these changes for the Fiscal Year 2023 budget (“FY 23 Budget”), the first deadline in this Act that New Castle County must meet is January 31, 2021.
## 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=48211&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB11)
## Votes
- 3/5 — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-12-11** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-26** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-01-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-01-27** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-02-23** 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/5baa912e-be9e-460a-a633-e72ba6362b76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).