---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENTAL AGREEMENTS."
description: "This Act prohibits a landlord from requiring a tenant declaw a cat as a condition for entering into or renewing a rental agreement. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 386"
citation: "Delaware HB 386 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andria L. Bennett", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-13"
last_action: "2022-10-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee037bb5-06c5-4efd-be88-51db99e7423d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109364"
source_hash: "d9d4d3bd46ac2629e8e161da747dbffb435697e1bbd78769940747506f4b04a3"
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 386 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENTAL AGREEMENTS.

This Act prohibits a landlord from requiring a tenant declaw a cat as a condition for entering into or renewing a rental agreement. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

## 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=109364&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB386)

## Votes

- SM — **15–5** (pass) · upper
- SM — **24–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andria L. Bennett — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-13** Introduced and Assigned to Housing & Community Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-04** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Community Affairs) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-16** Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 13 NO 1 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Assigned to Housing Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-10-26** 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/ee037bb5-06c5-4efd-be88-51db99e7423d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).