---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MORTGAGES."
description: "Section 1 of this Act clarifies that the intent of Senate Bill No. 32 of the 149th General Assembly was to require mortgagees to file a statement of mortgagee address change when its notice address changed, not to require mortgagees to include each mortgage affected by a change of notice address."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 353"
citation: "Delaware HB 353 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John L. Mitchell", "Margaret Rose Henry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-27"
last_action: "2018-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/189a93ad-18a0-4cb4-bacf-7c0767bfcfd4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26422"
source_hash: "b5aebf00c8239e61786a8ca70d740c834bff062968d05f2fea9be443f0001cf1"
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 353 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MORTGAGES.

Section 1 of this Act clarifies that the intent of Senate Bill No. 32 of the 149th General Assembly was to require mortgagees to file a statement of mortgagee address change when its notice address changed, not to require mortgagees to include each mortgage affected by a change of notice address.

## 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=26422&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB353)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-27** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-26** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-28** Rules Suspended in Senate
- **2018-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-09-04** 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/189a93ad-18a0-4cb4-bacf-7c0767bfcfd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).