republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-144.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEW CASTLE RELATING TO PROPERTY TAX RATES.	This Act amends the Charter of the City of New Castle by authorizing the City Council to levy taxes on real property at varying rates based upon property classification (e.g. residential, commercial, or industrial).	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 144	Delaware HB 144 (153)	bill		enacted	Franklin D. Cooke Melissa Minor-Brown Nicole Poore	0	6	2	2025-06-12	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7b5a1d51-10d9-4820-a2e8-e87e70e6e0e5	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142522	61a7b68ff5cb50d5cd5e264b23daebf91ab8006e19925851bfc42a44d38942dc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 144 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEW CASTLE RELATING TO PROPERTY TAX RATES.

This Act amends the Charter of the City of New Castle by authorizing the City Council to levy taxes on real property at varying rates based upon property classification (e.g. residential, commercial, or industrial).

Version chain

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

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 2/3 — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-12 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 144 introduction
• 2025-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-17 Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-07-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b5a1d51-10d9-4820-a2e8-e87e70e6e0e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).