---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9, TITLE 16, TITLE 25, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITIES."
description: "This Act is identical to Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 9, which establishes new formulas that a community owner is allowed use to increase rent in a manufactured home community. The requirements under this Act will be in effect for 5 years, during which time the current requirements for rent increases in manufactured home communities will be suspended."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 317"
citation: "Delaware SB 317 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-08"
last_action: "2022-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/270d2275-9a6b-42fc-91be-82f197a8d960"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=119646"
source_hash: "845feda8d4110b6dfacb5a821ce5e6d83ad95dd1ddc8ccd2297fedc41accafc6"
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 317 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9, TITLE 16, TITLE 25, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITIES.

This Act is identical to Senate Substitute No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 9, which establishes new formulas that a community owner is allowed use to increase rent in a manufactured home community. The requirements under this Act will be in effect for 5 years, during which time the current requirements for rent increases in manufactured home communities will be suspended.

## 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=119646&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB317)

## Votes

- SM — **18–1** (pass) · upper
- SM — **37–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-08** Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-06-09** Lifted from the Table and Assigned to Housing Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-21** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Amendment HA 1 to SB 317 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-22** Amendment HA 2 to SB 317 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment HA 1 to SB 317 - Defeated By House. Votes: 7 YES 32 NO 2 ABSENT `amendment-failure`
- **2022-06-30** Amendment HA 2 to SB 317 - Defeated By House. Votes: 7 YES 34 NO `amendment-failure`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 3 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-30** 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/270d2275-9a6b-42fc-91be-82f197a8d960`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).