---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HOME TITLE TRANSFERS."
description: "This Act updates the procedures governing the transfer of a manufactured home located in a manufactured home community in order to provide a clearer process and reduce ambiguities that allowed some community owners to prevent the transfer of a lease or a home as well as prevent family members from inheriting the investment made by a deceased family member in a home."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Delaware SB 56 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kyra L. Hoffner", "Mara Gorman", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-10"
last_action: "2025-09-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c523327-bea2-4d93-9c58-b0918b370789"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142490"
source_hash: "70d887d31e7ac026b17ad10df4d58bec78a841a59f566da7df07afb080d7e107"
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 56 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HOME TITLE TRANSFERS.

This Act updates the procedures governing the transfer of a manufactured home located in a manufactured home community in order to provide a clearer process and reduce ambiguities that allowed some community owners to prevent the transfer of a lease or a home as well as prevent family members from inheriting the investment made by a deceased family member in a home.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- 3/4 — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kyra L. Hoffner — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-10** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 56, and Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-12** Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-26** 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/5c523327-bea2-4d93-9c58-b0918b370789`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).