---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTERS 198 AND 200, VOLUME 78 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO FORECLOSURES."
description: "This Act extends the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Automatic Residential Foreclosure Mediation Program an additional two years, from January 18, 2018 until January 18, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 76"
citation: "Delaware HB 76 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Helene M. Keeley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-15"
last_action: "2017-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e2ae418-49ef-4d62-ad21-3d1c80d15c66"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25472"
source_hash: "7e651da86719d0cb694e38c521f7a36f12762948938a45452b44f9590f02f5c8"
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 76 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTERS 198 AND 200, VOLUME 78 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE RELATING TO FORECLOSURES.

This Act extends the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Automatic Residential Foreclosure Mediation Program an additional two years, from January 18, 2018 until January 18, 2020.

## 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=25472&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB76)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-15** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-07-17** 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/9e2ae418-49ef-4d62-ad21-3d1c80d15c66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).