Delaware Senate Bill 168 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on July 23 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-07-23 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act allows for the transfer of a particular parcel of land in Smyrna along Route 13. In the 147th General Assembly, the State was allowed to transfer this parcel of land, where a fire tower once stood, to the Town of Smyrna, but the land could only ever be used for a public purpose. The parcel in question is surrounded on both sides by parcels owned by the same private citizen. The Town and the private citizen wish to exchange their respective parcels so that the private citizens two parcels are thereafter contiguous. Because the land reverts to the ownership of the State if it ever stops being used for a public purpose, the Town cannot deed the land to the private individual. Therefore, this Act allows the State to receive the parcel from the Town and to then re-convey it to the Town without the requirement that it be forever used for a public purpose. The reconveyance will, however, allow the State to put an antenna on any water tower that the Town may build on the parcel or an adjacent parcel.

An Act To Transfer Land Between The Town Of Smyrna And The State Of Delaware.

Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]

Rep. William Carson [D]

2019-06-30 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 41 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-06-25 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-07-23		Signed by Governor
2019-06-30		Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
2019-06-27		Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Community Affairs) in House with 6 On Its Merits
2019-06-26		Assigned to Housing & Community Affairs Committee in House
2019-06-25		Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT
2019-06-25		Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits
2019-06-19		Introduced and Assigned to Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47763
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47763&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB168
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41071
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41277