---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 56, TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE."
description: "This Act updates the Right to Representation statute by moving certain duties to the office of the State Courts Administrator and clarifies terminology used within the statute."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 132"
citation: "Delaware SB 132 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Daniel Cruce", "Josue O Ortega", "Mara Gorman", "Nicole Poore", "Sarah McBride", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-08"
last_action: "2025-09-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc90371d-1cd1-4668-b909-f4d15bbc616c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142240"
source_hash: "fd5bbda115c3beaac90a7aabbdee6d17b432e580b453771a0fca586c15186aa2"
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 132 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 56, TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE.

This Act updates the Right to Representation statute by moving certain duties to the office of the State Courts Administrator and clarifies terminology used within the statute.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- 3/4 — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Daniel Cruce — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-08** Introduced and Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** Re-Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-22** Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-09-03** 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/fc90371d-1cd1-4668-b909-f4d15bbc616c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).