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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HOUSING STATUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES."
+description: "Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in employment and professional activities. This Act would add \"housing status\" as a protected characteristic."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 440"
+citation: "Delaware HB 440 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sophie Phillips", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-06-06"
+last_action: "2024-09-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2755c8d1-b5de-4b60-8572-e359cae6f400"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141518"
+source_hash: "d68aa029b55dc64e6c5eb6edf4da5588c6535a4f2860205c846fe30fed225126"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 440 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HOUSING STATUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.
+
+Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in employment and professional activities. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141518&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB440)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **35–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sophie Phillips — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-06-06** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
+- **2024-09-26** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2755c8d1-b5de-4b60-8572-e359cae6f400`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+