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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 AND TITLE 17 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS."
description: "This Act shall be known as the “New Castle County Neighborhood Improvement District Act.” The Act assembles New Castle County resources under “one roof” to focus comprehensively on persistent, and in some cases legacy, neighborhood problems, thereby promoting the possibilities of successfully resolving systemic neighborhood problems."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 286"
citation: "Delaware SB 286 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Sarah McBride", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-05"
last_action: "2022-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7896d79a-bc46-48be-9d08-b1d0d2045f08"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109457"
source_hash: "3a4b0387d566d953d87bbca8ac6fe961ac2496a25441a59eb7bbbb5be79fda09"
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 286 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 AND TITLE 17 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NEW CASTLE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS.
This Act shall be known as the “New Castle County Neighborhood Improvement District Act.” The Act assembles New Castle County resources under “one roof” to focus comprehensively on persistent, and in some cases legacy, neighborhood problems, thereby promoting the possibilities of successfully resolving systemic neighborhood problems.
## 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=109457&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB286)
## Votes
- SM — **372** (pass) · lower
- SM — **180** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-05-05** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-05-18** Assigned to Housing & Community Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-31** Re-Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-10-10** 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/7896d79a-bc46-48be-9d08-b1d0d2045f08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).