---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN BUILDINGS SINGLE ROOM LEASE."
description: "This bill requires a landlord to provide 15 days written notice to a single room tenant prior to the termination of a rental agreement for any reason other than a material violation. This notice provision ensures that the tenant has time to find suitable housing prior to the termination of their current lease, while still permitting a landlord to quickly remove a tenant renting a single room within a house."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 57"
citation: "Delaware HB 57 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Stephen Smyk", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-12-18"
last_action: "2021-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4353f9d4-8088-4615-9580-963b12ceda57"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48233"
source_hash: "cccdb69015e2d8bc870311455ac389586ff4334e7b10e5f047cb8136bbd0498f"
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 57 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN BUILDINGS SINGLE ROOM LEASE.

This bill requires a landlord to provide 15 days written notice to a single room tenant prior to the termination of a rental agreement for any reason other than a material violation. This notice provision ensures that the tenant has time to find suitable housing prior to the termination of their current lease, while still permitting a landlord to quickly remove a tenant renting a single room within a house.

## 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=48233&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB57)
2. **SA 1 to HB 57** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78971&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-18** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-03-19** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-03-25** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Assigned to Housing Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** Amendment SA 1 to HB 57 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** Laid On Table in Senate
- **2021-06-24** Lifted From Table in Senate
- **2021-06-24** Amendment SA 1 to HB 57 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-09-17** 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/4353f9d4-8088-4615-9580-963b12ceda57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).