---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE WILMINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY."
description: "This Act deletes the requirement in Title 31 of the Delaware Code, Section 4304, that no more than 5 commissioners or interim commissioners of the Wilmington Housing Authority be of the same political party."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 177"
citation: "Delaware SB 177 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Kendra Johnson", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-14"
last_action: "2023-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28a92b56-9056-46e2-9fe7-25aa889ea0af"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140618"
source_hash: "e473188e207471d32bdadb80f8b42f991cfb17fbd4ad88c2d0634b14c1247b12"
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 177 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE WILMINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY.

This Act deletes the requirement in Title 31 of the Delaware Code, Section 4304, that no more than 5 commissioners or interim commissioners of the Wilmington Housing Authority be of the same political party.

## 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=140618&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB177)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **25–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Introduced and Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-22** Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 16 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/28a92b56-9056-46e2-9fe7-25aa889ea0af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).