republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-371.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE PREVENTION COMMISSION, FIRE COMPANIES OR DEPARTMENTS, AND THE STATE INSURANCE COVERAGE OFFICE.	This Act changes how the Insurance Commissioner and the State Treasurer provide for distributions from taxes collected by the Insurance Commissioner to be made to fire companies or departments in Delaware. The current method for reporting, calculating, and making distributions to fire companies or departments is complex to administer and can lead to incorrect payments. This Act simplifies the reporting process and provides a new method for calculating the funds distributed to fire departments and companies in the City of Wilmington, New Castle County outside of Wilmington, Kent County, and Sussex County. Specifically, it reduces the number of payments per year from two to one, gives the Insurance Commissioner more time to ensure the accuracy of insurer-reported financial data, and establishes detailed guidelines for how the funds should be distributed to the various fire companies or departments. This Act also makes changes to the reporting requirements related to payments made by the State Treasurer to the State Insurance Coverage Office.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 371	Delaware HB 371 (152)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Kerri Evelyn Harris Kimberly Williams Laura V. Sturgeon Nicole Poore Ronald E. Gray Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Spiros Mantzavinos	1	7	2	2024-04-11	2024-10-29	openstates	ocd-bill/32029606-cfc9-4979-8b81-ed402d193250	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141185	0eeace2ac62c6576c90bb54651ca3b2696b00d8eb43a99c84c8c41ab21fab80a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 371 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE PREVENTION COMMISSION, FIRE COMPANIES OR DEPARTMENTS, AND THE STATE INSURANCE COVERAGE OFFICE.

This Act changes how the Insurance Commissioner and the State Treasurer provide for distributions from taxes collected by the Insurance Commissioner to be made to fire companies or departments in Delaware. The current method for reporting, calculating, and making distributions to fire companies or departments is complex to administer and can lead to incorrect payments. This Act simplifies the reporting process and provides a new method for calculating the funds distributed to fire departments and companies in the City of Wilmington, New Castle County outside of Wilmington, Kent County, and Sussex County. Specifically, it reduces the number of payments per year from two to one, gives the Insurance Commissioner more time to ensure the accuracy of insurer-reported financial data, and establishes detailed guidelines for how the funds should be distributed to the various fire companies or departments. This Act also makes changes to the reporting requirements related to payments made by the State Treasurer to the State Insurance Coverage Office.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-11 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2024-05-16 Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-10-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/32029606-cfc9-4979-8b81-ed402d193250. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).