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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 9 AND 22 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING."
description: "This Act amends the provisions in Title 9 of the Delaware Code relating to the county comprehensive plans for Sussex, Kent, and New Castle Counties, and Title 22 of the Delaware Code relating to municipal comprehensive plans for municipalities with populations greater than 2,000, to require that their comprehensive plans increase community resiliency and address the impacts of climate change."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 237"
citation: "Delaware SB 237 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Kendra Johnson", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-12"
last_action: "2024-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0becb5c-1070-46a7-9d08-b5bbba42bff1"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141026"
source_hash: "8e5cda80ac0ebf7a5eb807858adb72bca6f60c9b59618d718f5d40630205e82b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 237 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 9 AND 22 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING.
This Act amends the provisions in Title 9 of the Delaware Code relating to the county comprehensive plans for Sussex, Kent, and New Castle Counties, and Title 22 of the Delaware Code relating to municipal comprehensive plans for municipalities with populations greater than 2,000, to require that their comprehensive plans increase community resiliency and address the impacts of climate change.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141026&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB237)
## Votes
- SM — **155** (pass) · upper
- SM — **2712** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 12 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-05** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0becb5c-1070-46a7-9d08-b5bbba42bff1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).