republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-232.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO JURISDICTION OF THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT AND SUMMARY POSSESSION.	This Act would both raise the jurisdictional limit of the Justice of the Peace Court to $25,000 and allow Justice of the Peace to consider claims in excess of the jurisdictional limit where the underlying matter involves a commercial tenancy and possession of the rental unit is at issue. Currently, if a party is owed rent in excess of the jurisdictional limit they must either submit to the jurisdictional limit of the Court and forego the portion of the claim which exceeds the jurisdictional limit or bifurcate the case, filing both for possession in the Justice of the Peace Court and a debt action in a court of competent jurisdiction. While this Act would increase efficiency in terms of allowing one court to consider all aspects of the case it would in no way preclude a party from bifurcating the action if they chose to do so.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 232	Delaware HB 232 (150)	bill		enacted	Nicole Poore Sean Matthews	1	7	2	2019-06-17	2020-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/26cf2275-974b-4adc-a62d-43fc1d000395	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47731	749653efb959f843e78dc384e325bdb09a77e61b792cc774a457a09762e187d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 232 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO JURISDICTION OF THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT AND SUMMARY POSSESSION.

This Act would both raise the jurisdictional limit of the Justice of the Peace Court to $25,000 and allow Justice of the Peace to consider claims in excess of the jurisdictional limit where the underlying matter involves a commercial tenancy and possession of the rental unit is at issue. Currently, if a party is owed rent in excess of the jurisdictional limit they must either submit to the jurisdictional limit of the Court and forego the portion of the claim which exceeds the jurisdictional limit or bifurcate the case, filing both for possession in the Justice of the Peace Court and a debt action in a court of competent jurisdiction. While this Act would increase efficiency in terms of allowing one court to consider all aspects of the case it would in no way preclude a party from bifurcating the action if they chose to do so.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-17 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2019-06-21 Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2020-06-23 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2020-06-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2020-08-25 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26cf2275-974b-4adc-a62d-43fc1d000395. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).