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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW."
description: "This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) to keep it current and maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to the DGCL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 353"
citation: "Delaware HB 353 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Krista Griffith", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Michael F. Smith", "Ray Seigfried", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-04-09"
last_action: "2026-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fda9549-9894-4abf-9bb9-afa10e76b54a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=143065"
source_hash: "d076dbe9c6a35ea65a9591b089b307a6a393828f3e7d9d73e16b0e6ce823b58d"
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 HB 353 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 8 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.
This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) to keep it current and maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to the DGCL.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HA 1 to HB 353** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=143142&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **380** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-04-09** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-15** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 353 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2026-04-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 353 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-04-21** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-04-21** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-05-06** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-19** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2026-06-10** 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/5fda9549-9894-4abf-9bb9-afa10e76b54a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).