---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 6 AND 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HOUSING STATUS DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING AND PROPERTY."
description: "Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in housing and property transactions. This Act would add \"housing status\" as a protected characteristic."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 439"
citation: "Delaware HB 439 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sophie Phillips", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-06-06"
last_action: "2024-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b43c682-e809-4bda-9d85-b26e0601aedb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141517"
source_hash: "9adf81df0af8a6df97c23873931afad62b46368b15b5ef4f4a29ffdc8b45c0e0"
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 439 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 6 AND 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HOUSING STATUS DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING AND PROPERTY.

Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in housing and property transactions. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.

## 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=141517&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB439)
2. **HA 1 to HB 439** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141586&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
3. **HA 2 to HB 439** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141623&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper
- SM — **25–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sophie Phillips — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-06** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 1 to HB 439 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-20** Amendment HA 2 to HB 439 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 439 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-20** Amendment HA 2 to HB 439 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 8 NO 2 NOT VOTING 6 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `passage`
- **2024-09-26** 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/4b43c682-e809-4bda-9d85-b26e0601aedb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).