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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL FUNDS."
description: "This Act relates to the police and fire pension fund provisions of Chapter 7, Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The Act clarifies that an eligible retiree must be alive on July 1 of each biennial payout year in order to receive the payment provided for in Section 708 of Chapter 7."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 74"
citation: "Delaware SB 74 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald L. Brady", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-26"
last_action: "2021-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/152fcc04-7b0b-4dc1-9c00-993b7f6d488c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48400"
source_hash: "e737d7c2747741744dd5637e3550e4f5dc9feeba084c57acadd2e0c6e396a55c"
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 74 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SPECIAL FUNDS.
This Act relates to the police and fire pension fund provisions of Chapter 7, Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The Act clarifies that an eligible retiree must be alive on July 1 of each biennial payout year in order to receive the payment provided for in Section 708 of Chapter 7.
## 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=48400&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB74)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gerald L. Brady — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-26** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-18** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-09-15** 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/152fcc04-7b0b-4dc1-9c00-993b7f6d488c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).