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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REALTY TRANSFER TAX."
+description: "This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f)."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 25"
+citation: "Delaware SB 25 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Kendra Johnson", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-21"
+last_action: "2024-08-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2231f270-8e4e-43ec-b671-41cc7d4ae068"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141118"
+source_hash: "a9d4cbcf0b49fa17b156978768eff10588793950279b3e63cffe29483baaa0c9"
+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 SB 25 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REALTY TRANSFER TAX.
+
+This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f).
+
+## 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=141118&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB25)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 25** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141212&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-03-21** Introduced and Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-16** Amendment SA 1 to SB 25 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-04-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 25 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-04-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-04-23** Assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-08-09** 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/2231f270-8e4e-43ec-b671-41cc7d4ae068`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+