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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FORT DUPONT REDEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION CORPORATION."
description: "This bill: (1) increases the number of directors on the Board and allows the Board to appoint four additional directors; (2) implements clarifying language; (3) sunsets the former Advisory Council to replace it with a subcommittee structure to allow greater participation from members of the public and to allow the Corporation to appoint and receive assistance and expertise from a greater variety of experts; and (4) allows the Board of Directors to amend the Certificate of Incorporation with approval from the General Assembly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 40"
citation: "Delaware HB 40 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicole Poore", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/386cd4b3-4298-42c1-8ea7-ed77132604e0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37086"
source_hash: "494b28780d9770b02bee387635dc8e404b0a013dbfd680a479179ba48ed7a099"
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 40 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FORT DUPONT REDEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION CORPORATION.
This bill: (1) increases the number of directors on the Board and allows the Board to appoint four additional directors; (2) implements clarifying language; (3) sunsets the former Advisory Council to replace it with a subcommittee structure to allow greater participation from members of the public and to allow the Corporation to appoint and receive assistance and expertise from a greater variety of experts; and (4) allows the Board of Directors to amend the Certificate of Incorporation with approval from the General Assembly.
## 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=37086&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB40)
2. **SA 1 to HB 40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47500&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-10** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-01-22** Assigned to Environmental & Natural Resources Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Reported Out of Committee (Environmental & Natural Resources) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Amendment SA 1 to HB 40 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-06-04** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-26** 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/386cd4b3-4298-42c1-8ea7-ed77132604e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).