republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-72.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY BIDDING THRESHOLDS.	This bill raises the public bidding thresholds for procurement of goods, contractual services, professional services and public works contracts by county governments to match the bidding thresholds set forth by the State of Delaware’s Contracting and Purchasing Advisory Council or otherwise set forth by state law. Section 1 of this bill addresses the bidding thresholds set forth in 9 Del C. § 314. First, this bill removes subsection f, which exempted Kent County from subsection a, which will now apply to all counties. Second, this bill grants Sussex County the same power and authority with respect to sole source procurement, emergency needs, contract performance, multiple source contracting as granted to the State under Chapter 69 of Title 29, an authority already granted to the government of New Castle County and Kent County. Finally, this bill grants Sussex County the same power and authority as Kent County and New Castle County to grant contracts without requesting competitive bids and without awarding such contract to the lowest bidder when such contracts are for engineering, legal or other professional services requiring special skills or training. Section 2 of this bill modifies the procedure by which the Financial Officer of Sussex County may award public contracts and aligns it with the procurement procedure set forth in Section 1 of this bill.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 72	Delaware HB 72 (152)	bill		enacted	Daniel B. Short David P. Sokola Kerri Evelyn Harris Laura V. Sturgeon Madinah Wilson-Anton Marie Pinkney Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos	1	7	2	2023-03-02	2023-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/b33d9948-fa70-4bdc-8a42-4a965bf207e6	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130042	ac0dcd3afd38706fd0507d4a95a93fd0f9081029f7e7d198a5e11e6a93ff5029	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 72 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY BIDDING THRESHOLDS.

This bill raises the public bidding thresholds for procurement of goods, contractual services, professional services and public works contracts by county governments to match the bidding thresholds set forth by the State of Delaware’s Contracting and Purchasing Advisory Council or otherwise set forth by state law. Section 1 of this bill addresses the bidding thresholds set forth in 9 Del C. § 314. First, this bill removes subsection f, which exempted Kent County from subsection a, which will now apply to all counties. Second, this bill grants Sussex County the same power and authority with respect to sole source procurement, emergency needs, contract performance, multiple source contracting as granted to the State under Chapter 69 of Title 29, an authority already granted to the government of New Castle County and Kent County. Finally, this bill grants Sussex County the same power and authority as Kent County and New Castle County to grant contracts without requesting competitive bids and without awarding such contract to the lowest bidder when such contracts are for engineering, legal or other professional services requiring special skills or training. Section 2 of this bill modifies the procedure by which the Financial Officer of Sussex County may award public contracts and aligns it with the procurement procedure set forth in Section 1 of this bill.

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 — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-02 Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-03-08 Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2023-03-16 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-07-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b33d9948-fa70-4bdc-8a42-4a965bf207e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).