HB 280 Summary

• Appropriates $36,425,599 in supplemental grants-in-aid for fiscal year 2018, including $18.6 million for government units and senior centers, $12.9 million for community agencies, $4.7 million for fire companies, and $244,230 for veterans organizations.

• Establishes grant-in-aid eligibility criteria requiring agencies to be incorporated nonprofits for at least two years, maintain active boards, have annual audits, practice non-discrimination, and prohibits use of funds for elected officials' salaries or lobbying.

• Provides fire companies with funding for apparatus maintenance, ambulance and rescue truck operations, aerial truck maintenance, and insurance rebate equalization, with quarterly payments authorized by the State Treasurer.

• Amends Delaware personal income tax code to increase top tax rate from 6.6% to 7.1% on income over $150,000, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, and adjusts pension deduction thresholds with age-based phase-ins through 2022.

• Establishes conditions for grant payment withholding, including failure to submit expenditure statements, misuse of funds, or violation of tax obligations, while exempting certain appropriations from standard reversion and audit requirements.