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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INCOME TAX RETURN."
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description: "Currently there are 17 \"check-boxes\" on the Delaware personal income tax return where taxpayers may designate a portion of their refund or send additional money with their payment due to be credited as a charitable donation to various organizations. The number of organizations has continued to grow over the years without any charities being removed. As a result, a relatively stable total amount of donations is being spread across a larger number of causes, reducing the utility for any single charity and increasing the administrative burden on the Division of Revenue. This bill eliminates the two lowest grossing charitable funds - for the US Olympic Committee and for the Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund, and replaces them with Funds for the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children and the United Way of Delaware. It also adds a provision to the code capping the number of permissible charity check-offs on the return at 21."
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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 163"
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citation: "Delaware HB 163 (149)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Michael Ramone", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 11
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-05-09"
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last_action: "2018-10-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f35a26b9-d534-401f-b935-f9480321a201"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25742"
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source_hash: "9979220a45ed06110d46466e4530fbfb8b60e282e9ffc354eb358d99c503e0d3"
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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 163 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE INCOME TAX RETURN.
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Currently there are 17 "check-boxes" on the Delaware personal income tax return where taxpayers may designate a portion of their refund or send additional money with their payment due to be credited as a charitable donation to various organizations. The number of organizations has continued to grow over the years without any charities being removed. As a result, a relatively stable total amount of donations is being spread across a larger number of causes, reducing the utility for any single charity and increasing the administrative burden on the Division of Revenue. This bill eliminates the two lowest grossing charitable funds - for the US Olympic Committee and for the Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund, and replaces them with Funds for the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children and the United Way of Delaware. It also adds a provision to the code capping the number of permissible charity check-offs on the return at 21.
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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=25742&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB163)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
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- **2017-06-29** Amendment HA 2 to HB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-06-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2017-06-29** Amendment HA 2 to HB 163 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2017-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2017-07-12** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2018-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2018-10-01** 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/f35a26b9-d534-401f-b935-f9480321a201`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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