republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-52.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE SATISFACTION AND PARTIAL RELEASE OF MORTGAGES.	This Act will allow a retired Delaware attorney to satisfy a mortgage that the attorney paid off while in practice. Currently only attorneys still in active practice are permitted to satisfy mortgages under Section 2120. This limitation can leave no practicable way to satisfy a mortgage for which the lender fails to record a satisfaction as required by State law if the attorney who paid off the mortgage subsequently retires. This Act will also expand the scope of Section 2120 to include partial releases of a mortgage where a Delaware attorney made a partial payment to release a portion of the mortgaged property.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 52	Delaware SB 52 (149)	bill		enacted	Anthony Delcollo Brian J. Bushweller Bryan Townsend Bryon H. Short Kevin S Hensley Melanie George Smith Sean M. Lynn Stephanie L. Hansen	1	7	2	2017-03-30	2017-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/658b338d-6e02-402c-9be1-9afe9850d509	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25568	e68eefa5ba5f7fe1afbb736777c4df94c5a987524ff9b245ec817d99b5ea2da8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 52 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE SATISFACTION AND PARTIAL RELEASE OF MORTGAGES.

This Act will allow a retired Delaware attorney to satisfy a mortgage that the attorney paid off while in practice. Currently only attorneys still in active practice are permitted to satisfy mortgages under Section 2120. This limitation can leave no practicable way to satisfy a mortgage for which the lender fails to record a satisfaction as required by State law if the attorney who paid off the mortgage subsequently retires. This Act will also expand the scope of Section 2120 to include partial releases of a mortgage where a Delaware attorney made a partial payment to release a portion of the mortgaged property.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Anthony Delcollo — primary (person)
• Brian J. Bushweller — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
• Melanie George Smith — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-30 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-04-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2017-04-26 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2017-09-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/658b338d-6e02-402c-9be1-9afe9850d509. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).