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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION FEES."
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description: "This Act provides each county with the ability to impose, by duly enacted ordinance, a fire protection fee (fee). A county that enacts this fee must do all of the following:"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 127"
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citation: "Delaware HB 127 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Daniel B. Short", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Michael Ramone", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean Matthews", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 11
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-04-21"
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last_action: "2024-08-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd1b9bf5-b647-498c-a097-482867a7642c"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130231"
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source_hash: "615299bdd666d5375e41f3e2e03743c1540ecc39cde6551ac74b19513ab6b6a9"
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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 127 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION FEES.
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This Act provides each county with the ability to impose, by duly enacted ordinance, a fire protection fee (fee). A county that enacts this fee must do all of the following:
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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=130231&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB127)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 127** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=130259&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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3. **HA 2 to HB 127** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141142&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
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- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-04-21** Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-26** Amendment HA 1 to HB 127 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2023-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 5 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
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- **2024-03-27** Amendment HA 2 to HB 127 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2024-04-16** Amendment HA 1 to HB 127 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2024-04-16** Amendment HA 2 to HB 127 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2024-04-16** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-04-16** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-08-02** 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/cd1b9bf5-b647-498c-a097-482867a7642c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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