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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS."
+description: "This Act gives a county, upon a county-wide reassessment of real property under § 8306(b) of Title 9, the authority to adopt an ordinance modifying the school property tax exemption amounts that were put in place on or before January 1, 1998. In doing so, this Act protects seniors and individuals with disabilities from significant school tax increases related to county-wide reassessments of property values."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "HB 159"
+citation: "Delaware HB 159 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Kimberly Williams", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-05-13"
+last_action: "2025-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8131a79-be13-464f-869c-5e9ed0cae9b5"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142262"
+source_hash: "e1778ef27db5d17a2d8119306fce9d8624625535a4b29bbf33deeb0c2583f451"
+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 159 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS.
+
+This Act gives a county, upon a county-wide reassessment of real property under § 8306(b) of Title 9, the authority to adopt an ordinance modifying the school property tax exemption amounts that were put in place on or before January 1, 1998. In doing so, this Act protects seniors and individuals with disabilities from significant school tax increases related to county-wide reassessments of property values.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **35–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
+- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
+- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
+- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
+- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-05-13** Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-22** Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Assigned to Education Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2025-06-13** 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/b8131a79-be13-464f-869c-5e9ed0cae9b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+