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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES. This Act allows counties to use Realty Transfer Tax funds to pay expenses related to assessments and reassessments of real property and associated improvements. Further, it permits New Castle County to expand potential referees of tax assessment appeals beyond members of the Bar of the State of Delaware. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 151 HB 170 Delaware HB 170 (151)
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Delaware HB 170 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES.

This Act allows counties to use Realty Transfer Tax funds to pay expenses related to assessments and reassessments of real property and associated improvements. Further, it permits New Castle County to expand potential referees of tax assessment appeals beyond members of the Bar of the State of Delaware.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 201 (pass) · upper
  • 2/3 — 390 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
  • Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
  • Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
  • Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
  • Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
  • David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
  • David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
  • Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
  • Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
  • Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
  • Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
  • Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
  • Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
  • Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-04-20 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2021-04-27 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-05-07 Suspension of Rules in House
  • 2021-05-13 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
  • 2021-05-13 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2021-05-19 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2021-06-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
  • 2021-09-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/022389a7-ce21-4ebd-8da5-f1d9f3c7a70b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).