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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON RELATING TO CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS."
description: "This amendment to Section 8-200 of the Charter of the City of Wilmington raises some of the threshold amounts for bid requirements in the procurement process. The purpose of the amendment is to improve City of Wilmington procurement procedures, increase public access to City of Wilmington contracting opportunities through the authorization of internet advertising, and authorize the City of Wilmington to participate in cooperative purchasing agreements with other public procurement agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 216"
citation: "Delaware HB 216 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harris B. McDowell", "Helene M. Keeley", "Margaret Rose Henry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-08"
last_action: "2017-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11ce089c-373b-4033-8b46-164b8e6a6433"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25923"
source_hash: "20df825baa956487a545b77d1d17f66152ed58f63d9c5bf68aeda18ce65e6161"
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 216 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON RELATING TO CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS.
This amendment to Section 8-200 of the Charter of the City of Wilmington raises some of the threshold amounts for bid requirements in the procurement process. The purpose of the amendment is to improve City of Wilmington procurement procedures, increase public access to City of Wilmington contracting opportunities through the authorization of internet advertising, and authorize the City of Wilmington to participate in cooperative purchasing agreements with other public procurement agencies.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25923&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB216)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **180** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-06-08** Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-27** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-08-30** 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/11ce089c-373b-4033-8b46-164b8e6a6433`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).