---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COUNCIL ON REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS."
description: "This Bill authorizes the Division of Professional Regulation to charge a registration fee to Appraisal Management Companies for reporting them to the National Registry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 71"
citation: "Delaware HB 71 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-07"
last_action: "2019-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc34af6a-8f66-47a7-bff3-57465484d665"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47177"
source_hash: "d05e4b79f1d9912bdba89eacff91952661752b9c7e42ee3f634dd30c3b5a3e87"
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 71 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COUNCIL ON REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS.

This Bill authorizes the Division of Professional Regulation to charge a registration fee to Appraisal Management Companies for reporting them to the National Registry.

## 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=47177&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB71)
2. **HA 1 to HB 71** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47252&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-07** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 71 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 71 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-05-15** 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/bc34af6a-8f66-47a7-bff3-57465484d665`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).