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---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN RELATING TO MUNICIPAL POWER."
description: "This bill permits the Town of Middletown to impose and collect a lodging tax of no more than 3 percent of rents on hotel and motel rooms located in the town."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 449"
citation: "Delaware HB 449 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin S Hensley", "Quinton Johnson", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-12"
last_action: "2018-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/640d90b7-7d9c-46a4-b9d2-0858a0b935eb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26798"
source_hash: "5ccfdb068b69cbf2476186cb4f8fe3c5c194b9df8a353ffa663c5e398046215a"
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 449 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN RELATING TO MUNICIPAL POWER.
This bill permits the Town of Middletown to impose and collect a lodging tax of no more than 3 percent of rents on hotel and motel rooms located in the town.
## 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=26798&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB449)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **364** (pass) · lower
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
- Quinton Johnson — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-06-12** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-21** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-21** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-09-04** 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/640d90b7-7d9c-46a4-b9d2-0858a0b935eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).