republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-422.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS.	This Act dissolves the Delaware Interagency Council on Homelessness (DICH). The DICH has been an important venue for significant progress in addressing homelessness in Delaware. However, changes to the primary source of federal assistance for resources for homelessness required the establishment of a Continuum of Care. The similar goals, tasks, and membership of the Continuum of Care have made the DICH obsolete and duplicative of these efforts.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 422	Delaware HB 422 (149)	bill		enacted	Margaret Rose Henry Paul S. Baumbach	1	7	2	2018-05-30	2018-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/741038ce-00d7-4b5a-96a5-76f295190691	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26709	d6406dc3b82736e4f81a0db79f62ca26450dcddb0549378763f4406ba74f78ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 422 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS.

This Act dissolves the Delaware Interagency Council on Homelessness (DICH). The DICH has been an important venue for significant progress in addressing homelessness in Delaware. However, changes to the primary source of federal assistance for resources for homelessness required the establishment of a Continuum of Care. The similar goals, tasks, and membership of the Continuum of Care have made the DICH obsolete and duplicative of these efforts.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-30 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-19 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-19 Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2018-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/741038ce-00d7-4b5a-96a5-76f295190691. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).