---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RESIDENCY."
description: "This Act creates a process for the Commissioner of Elections to determine if a candidate or an incumbent elected official for a State or county elected office are residents of the district or area they represent or seek to represent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 183"
citation: "Delaware HB 183 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Wilson", "Kevin S Hensley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-05-12"
last_action: "2022-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84a3c863-ee3e-42d9-b6ab-b37570436bae"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68691"
source_hash: "9e452e847693a4efbf05aa1f813ce846be90796233bc9299a205e06caa82c095"
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 183 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RESIDENCY.

This Act creates a process for the Commissioner of Elections to determine if a candidate or an incumbent elected official for a State or county elected office are residents of the district or area they represent or seek to represent.

## 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=68691&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB183)
2. **HA 2 to HB 183** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=79075&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
3. **SA 2 to HB 183** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129889&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-12** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-18** Amendment HA 1 to HB 183 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Amendment HA 2 to HB 183 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-03** Amendment HA 1 to HB 183 - Stricken in House
- **2022-05-03** Amendment HA 2 to HB 183 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-05-03** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-05-03** Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment SA 1 to HB 183 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment SA 2 to HB 183 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment SA 1 to HB 183 - Stricken in Senate
- **2022-06-30** Amendment SA 2 to HB 183 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-07-01** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2022-07-22** 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/84a3c863-ee3e-42d9-b6ab-b37570436bae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).