---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD TENANT GUIDE."
description: "This Act establishes the Rights and Responsibilities Guide for Landlords and Tenants Committee (“Committee”) within the Delaware Real Estate Commission (“Commission”). The Commission is tasked with drafting, maintaining, and distributing a comprehensive, statewide rights & responsibilities guide (“guide”) for landlords and tenants with support from the Committee. This guide will reference responsibilities that a tenant or landlord must follow, including federal, state, county, and municipal requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 311"
citation: "Delaware HB 311 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Kimberly Williams", "Mara Gorman", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-03-05"
last_action: "2026-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/840f4630-98dd-4d5a-8ef7-a98588f571fc"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142906"
source_hash: "80bcc0feb31d3941d779b195c49b923f29a814c33fb63f272c52485fc0724536"
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 311 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD TENANT GUIDE.

This Act establishes the Rights and Responsibilities Guide for Landlords and Tenants Committee (“Committee”) within the Delaware Real Estate Commission (“Commission”). The Commission is tasked with drafting, maintaining, and distributing a comprehensive, statewide rights & responsibilities guide (“guide”) for landlords and tenants with support from the Committee. This guide will reference responsibilities that a tenant or landlord must follow, including federal, state, county, and municipal requirements.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- SM — **29–4** (pass) · lower
- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-05** Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-23** Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 4 NO 2 NOT VOTING 6 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-04-23** Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-05-20** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-06-10** 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/840f4630-98dd-4d5a-8ef7-a98588f571fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).