republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-173.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF DEWEY BEACH.	This Act is a comprehensive update to the Charter of Dewey Beach that makes both substantive and technical revisions to diminish instances of ambiguous language and eliminate the use of archaic terms and duplicative provisions.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 173	Delaware SB 173 (151)	bill		enacted	Ernesto B. Lopez Peter C. Schwartzkopf	2	10	2	2021-06-08	2021-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/8f971762-0196-4102-82de-ec5bd4bf4cc3	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78833	0e5684883f388e2797514f69711f70207d043cc453fd7ebb5c9578ca0df0cb04	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 173 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF DEWEY BEACH.

This Act is a comprehensive update to the Charter of Dewey Beach that makes both substantive and technical revisions to diminish instances of ambiguous language and eliminate the use of archaic terms and duplicative provisions.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 173 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-08 Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-17 Amendment SA 1 to SB 173 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-17 Amendment SA 1 to SB 173 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2021-06-17 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-06-18 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2021-06-25 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-09-15 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8f971762-0196-4102-82de-ec5bd4bf4cc3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).