---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS."
description: "This bill raises the threshold for licensed property appraisers so that they may appraise residential units valued at $400,000.00 or less as a way to meet market demand. It also changes the requirements for licensure, such that property appraisers must file annual certificates but only renew their registrations every other year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Delaware SB 296 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kyle Evans Gay", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-11"
last_action: "2022-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2380cb15-39ee-453f-a6f9-a361a1cd4053"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109499"
source_hash: "5361372ac9a2582b9d2b03339f573e98a9a3d60ef86c76b947c337097d49ecad"
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 SB 296 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.

This bill raises the threshold for licensed property appraisers so that they may appraise residential units valued at $400,000.00 or less as a way to meet market demand. It also changes the requirements for licensure, such that property appraisers must file annual certificates but only renew their registrations every other year.

## 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=109499&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB296)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-11** Introduced and Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-08** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-09** Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-11-02** 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/2380cb15-39ee-453f-a6f9-a361a1cd4053`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).