republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-207.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MILTON.	This Act amends the Charter of The Town of Milton. Specifically, Section 1 of the Act allows for an exception to the lengthy annexation process for a contiguous property owner seeking annexation if the property is two acres or less. Section 2 of the Act then sets up that less cumbersome annexation process for properties two acres or less. Section 3 of the Act replaces the list of exceptions to competitive bidding with incorporation by reference of the more detailed Town of Milton Procurement Policy. Section 4 of the Act reinstates a prior limit on real property taxes to a function of the total of assessed values within the Town. Specifically, the “cap” is 0.5% of that total. Currently, the cap is a fixed number, $1,750,000. However, the Town has annexed into its limits a number of parcels that will necessarily require additional expenditures of Town funds for services such as policing and, therefore, the Town will need to collect additional real property taxes.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 207	Delaware HB 207 (152)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown David L. Wilson Russell Huxtable Stell Parker Selby	1	9	2	2023-06-06	2023-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0d7e2fd3-806f-40db-a57e-c645942fc718	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140521	c383c9fdec14209f5083e2a7966186049675ef68e057e48687361f1b2600401d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 207 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MILTON.

This Act amends the Charter of The Town of Milton. Specifically, Section 1 of the Act allows for an exception to the lengthy annexation process for a contiguous property owner seeking annexation if the property is two acres or less. Section 2 of the Act then sets up that less cumbersome annexation process for properties two acres or less. Section 3 of the Act replaces the list of exceptions to competitive bidding with incorporation by reference of the more detailed Town of Milton Procurement Policy. Section 4 of the Act reinstates a prior limit on real property taxes to a function of the total of assessed values within the Town. Specifically, the “cap” is 0.5% of that total. Currently, the cap is a fixed number, $1,750,000. However, the Town has annexed into its limits a number of parcels that will necessarily require additional expenditures of Town funds for services such as policing and, therefore, the Town will need to collect additional real property taxes.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 38–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-06 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-15 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2023-06-15 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-22 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2023-08-01 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d7e2fd3-806f-40db-a57e-c645942fc718. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).