---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE BETWEEN SPOUSES."
description: "This Act resolves ambiguities in the current law and confirms the ability of a spouse who owns real property as tenant by the entirety, acting alone, to convey that spouse’s interest in such real property to both spouses, as tenants by the entirety or otherwise, or to the other spouse."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 131"
citation: "Delaware HB 131 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Ronald E. Gray", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sean Matthews", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-27"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84428785-ec6d-4cf7-8fdc-cfca37adc163"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130267"
source_hash: "13a97c092464d9d32569e442df19e9a699fc1cef8833e0a2b8b1fbaf7a4e0eb6"
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 131 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE BETWEEN SPOUSES.

This Act resolves ambiguities in the current law and confirms the ability of a spouse who owns real property as tenant by the entirety, acting alone, to convey that spouse’s interest in such real property to both spouses, as tenants by the entirety or otherwise, or to the other spouse.

## 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=130267&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB131)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-27** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-29** 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/84428785-ec6d-4cf7-8fdc-cfca37adc163`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).