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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, TITLE 22 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MUNICIPAL TAX INCREMENT FINANCING."
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description: "This Act amends the definition of “municipality” in the Municipal Tax Increment Financing Act to allow the City of Dover to take advantage of the economic development opportunities afforded by the Municipal Tax Increment Financing Act, and enables such municipality to pledge the tax levied on the tax increment to the payment of bonds issued by other issuers in the State for the purposes of the Municipal Tax Increment Financing Act."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "149"
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identifier: "HB 117"
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citation: "Delaware HB 117 (149)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Brian J. Bushweller", "Bruce C. Ennis", "William J. Carson"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-03-29"
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last_action: "2017-05-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a152a0c-2a64-42bc-a64c-b7c846f5155e"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25560"
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source_hash: "262f70c28fdf103a6dbe6bb7ab24a1ff247563ac5a5af32f44bdfb18b6af87c1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 117 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, TITLE 22 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MUNICIPAL TAX INCREMENT FINANCING.
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This Act amends the definition of “municipality” in the Municipal Tax Increment Financing Act to allow the City of Dover to take advantage of the economic development opportunities afforded by the Municipal Tax Increment Financing Act, and enables such municipality to pledge the tax levied on the tax increment to the payment of bonds issued by other issuers in the State for the purposes of the Municipal Tax Increment Financing Act.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25560&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB117)
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## Votes
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- SM — **18–1** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
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- William J. Carson — primary (person)
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- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
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- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
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- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-03-29** Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-04-26** Amendment HA 1 to HB 117 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2017-04-27** Amendment HA 1 to HB 117 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2017-04-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2017-04-27** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2017-05-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2017-05-30** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a152a0c-2a64-42bc-a64c-b7c846f5155e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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