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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 170"
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citation: "Delaware HB 170 (151)"
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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: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-04-20"
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last_action: "2021-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/022389a7-ce21-4ebd-8da5-f1d9f3c7a70b"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58597"
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source_hash: "9ae7e5b4e4cb1b59ab42e12d507608e74716dd2347f0b4eb42bb77a47bf9fb52"
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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 170 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES.
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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.
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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=58597&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB170)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
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- 2/3 — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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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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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
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- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
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- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-04-20** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-27** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-05-07** Suspension of Rules in House
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- **2021-05-13** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2021-05-13** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2021-06-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2021-09-30** 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/022389a7-ce21-4ebd-8da5-f1d9f3c7a70b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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