Delaware House Bill 25

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on January 19 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-01-19 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This legislation establishes that a relief rebate issued under the 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program during the period that the federal major disaster declaration exists for the State of Delaware is intended to be a qualified disaster relief payment under § 139 of the Internal Revenue Code. It further provides that the State makes no representations or warranties to recipients regarding the 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program and that civil actions of any nature and claims for any form of economic entitlement including but not limited to damages are prohibited with respect to this legislation. This legislation is effective as of the date on which the 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program was enacted.

An Act To Declare The 2022 Delaware Relief Rebates As Qualified Disaster Payments.

Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]
Rep. Lyndon Yearick [R]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]
Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]
Rep. Richard Collins [R]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Rep. Kerri Harris [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]
Rep. Jeff Hilovsky [R]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]
Rep. Jeffrey Spiegelman [R]	Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]	Sen. David Lawson [R]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]
Sen. Bryant Richardson [R]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]

2023-01-18 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-12 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-19		Signed by Governor
2023-01-18		Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
2023-01-18		Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
2023-01-12		Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate
2023-01-12		Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT
2023-01-11		Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
2022-12-15		Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129898
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=129898&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB25
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53984
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53995