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HA7TOHB119 • 2025

This amendment clarifies that residents that pay a library district tax to support a municipal library may submit an objection to material in that library.

This amendment clarifies that residents that pay a library district tax to support a municipal library may submit an objection to material in that library.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Yearick
Last action
2025-05-22
Official status
Passed 5/22/25
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The effective date is missing from the provided metadata, so it cannot be confirmed when this law takes effect.

Who Can Object to Library Materials

This change says only people who live, own property or business, or pay taxes for a specific public library can file complaints about books or items in that library.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the rules on who is allowed to submit an objection to materials in a public library.
  • Allows residents of the area served by the library to file objections.
  • Allows business owners and property owners in the service area to file objections.
  • Requires that taxpayers funding the specific library district must be involved to object.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Residents living in the area where a public library operates
  • Business owners located within the library's service area
  • Property owners who pay taxes for the local library district

Limits and Unknowns

  • The text does not explain what happens after an objection is submitted.
  • No effective date for this law is provided in the document.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-22 Delaware General Assembly

    Introduced and Placed With Bill

  2. 2025-05-22 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed In House by Voice Vote

Official Summary Text

This amendment clarifies that residents that pay a library district tax to support a municipal library may submit an objection to material in that library.

Current Bill Text

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Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Yearick

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 7

TO

HOUSE BILL NO. 119

AMEND House Bill No. 119 by deleting lines 37 and 38 in their entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

“

(2) Only a resident, business owner, property owner of the area the public library serves, or a taxpayer of a library district financing a library, may submit an objection to material in that library.

”.

SYNOPSIS

This amendment clarifies that residents that pay a library district tax to support a municipal library may submit an objection to material in that library.