republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-177.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 459, VOLUME 84 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE, AND CHAPTER 1, VOLUME 85 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE, RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAMES.	This Act delays the effective date of changes made to the trade name registration process made by Senate Bill No. 291 of the 152nd General Assembly and House Bill No. 40 of the 153rd General Assembly. The Act also directs the Department of Revenue to conduct outreach to affected agencies and customers regarding the pending changes.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 177	Delaware HB 177 (153)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Krista Griffith William Bush	0	7	2	2025-05-19	2025-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/f24e46da-ecbf-47a1-8f4c-f0128927decb	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142340	c84646808fc08f8f438b9cdb7c8670cd5710dc1128ed442414d48fc5c310d183	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 177 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 459, VOLUME 84 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE, AND CHAPTER 1, VOLUME 85 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE, RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAMES.

This Act delays the effective date of changes made to the trade name registration process made by Senate Bill No. 291 of the 152nd General Assembly and House Bill No. 40 of the 153rd General Assembly. The Act also directs the Department of Revenue to conduct outreach to affected agencies and customers regarding the pending changes.

Version chain

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

Votes

• 3/5 — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-19 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-20 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2025-05-20 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2025-05-20 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2025-05-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f24e46da-ecbf-47a1-8f4c-f0128927decb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).