Delaware Senate Bill 278

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-7)
Status: Passed on August 29 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-08-29 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Delaware consumers have a stable, reliable, convenient, and competitive retail network for automobile sales and service. This Act is an effort to continue to ensure that the relationship between dealers and the manufacturers and distributors is as fair and equitable as possible and provides the highest level of consumer protection. The Act includes the following provisions:

An Act To Amend Titles 6 And 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Commerce And Trade.

Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Sen. Eric Buckson [R]	Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]
Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]	Sen. Russ Huxtable [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]
Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]
Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. David Wilson [R]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]
Rep. Michael Ramone [R]	Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]
Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]

2024-06-20 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-06-13 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-08-29		Signed by Governor
2024-06-20		Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2024-06-18		Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits
2024-06-13		Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House
2024-06-13		Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
2024-06-13		Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
2024-06-12		Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2024-06-12		Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
2024-06-11		Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 278, and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate

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