republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-244.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES.	This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 244	Delaware SB 244 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Edward S. Osienski Franklin D. Cooke John "Jack" Walsh Kendra Johnson Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Nicole Poore Paul S. Baumbach Ronald E. Gray Russell Huxtable S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Spiros Mantzavinos Trey Paradee William Bush	1	8	2	2024-03-21	2024-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/2079c9cd-0168-4b60-835d-bac0c2ac6cc8	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141119	add68a340cb5621a90c1c90408d986146b95df8344275a32a82a4484971117b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 244 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES.

This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 17–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-21 Introduced and Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-27 Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-17 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 3 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-04-18 Assigned to Housing Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 Not Worked in Committee
• 2024-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-08-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2079c9cd-0168-4b60-835d-bac0c2ac6cc8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).