republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-297.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 17 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND ACCEPTANCE OF NEW ROADS AND STREETS FOR STATE MAINTENANCE.	Due to the rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, combined with the frequency in which developers have gone out of business or otherwise been unable to complete work required within developments, this Act increases the funding required to be secured by a developer to ensure the developer fulfills the developer's obligations to construct and complete improvements within a subdivision.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 297	Delaware HB 297 (152)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Bryan W. Shupe David L. Wilson Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison Laura V. Sturgeon Russell Huxtable Sean M. Lynn Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby William Bush	2	10	2	2024-01-24	2024-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/d5961372-0b49-4d6b-83bf-7dcda4e2a928	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140890	c0166ea340e17e266b7b0aa5b82a159028772958e57fcf758f9651f3c6b33d7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 297 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 17 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND ACCEPTANCE OF NEW ROADS AND STREETS FOR STATE MAINTENANCE.

Due to the rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, combined with the frequency in which developers have gone out of business or otherwise been unable to complete work required within developments, this Act increases the funding required to be secured by a developer to ensure the developer fulfills the developer's obligations to construct and complete improvements within a subdivision.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 297 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryan W. Shupe — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-24 Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-12 Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to HB 297 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to HB 297 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2024-06-26 Laid On Table in Senate
• 2024-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2024-06-30 Lifted From Table in Senate
• 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2024-08-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5961372-0b49-4d6b-83bf-7dcda4e2a928. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).