---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY."
description: "This Act requires that each county reassess the value of real property in the county at least once every 5 years. The first 5-year period starts when the reassessment currently being conducted by each county is completed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 62"
citation: "Delaware HB 62 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-02"
last_action: "2023-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d573cf3-a5c3-45bb-bac8-4c6c2289468d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130021"
source_hash: "be4413be86fe1bf034ad34dfbef3b067647b9cf75100b35e59cd6d394e24f3c6"
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 62 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY.

This Act requires that each county reassess the value of real property in the county at least once every 5 years. The first 5-year period starts when the reassessment currently being conducted by each county is completed.

## 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=130021&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB62)

## Votes

- SM — **29–3** (pass) · lower
- SM — **17–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-02** Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 10 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 3 NO 5 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-05-11** Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-08-09** 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/6d573cf3-a5c3-45bb-bac8-4c6c2289468d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).