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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 27, VOLUME 79 AND CHAPTER 74, VOLUME 81 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE AND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FORECLOSURE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION."
description: "This Act extends the Automatic Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program and the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education through December 31, 2024. The Automatic Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program and the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education were established by 3 different Acts which each sunset after 2 years, based upon the effective date of each Act. The sunset periods have been extended for additional 2 year periods so that the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education sunsets in September 2019; § 5062C and § 5062D of Title 10 sunset in January 2020; and § 5062A of Title 10 sunset in January 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 68"
citation: "Delaware HB 68 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Catherine Cloutier", "John A. Kowalko", "Michael Ramone", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d965d78-b81a-4ad1-b6cd-767a38278106"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47171"
source_hash: "126c30050bc12dc44adf7274a34a972b23e87249e8d71243c92df982846b1e25"
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 HB 68 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 27, VOLUME 79 AND CHAPTER 74, VOLUME 81 OF THE LAWS OF DELAWARE AND TITLE 10 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FORECLOSURE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION.
This Act extends the Automatic Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program and the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education through December 31, 2024. The Automatic Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program and the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education were established by 3 different Acts which each sunset after 2 years, based upon the effective date of each Act. The sunset periods have been extended for additional 2 year periods so that the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education sunsets in September 2019; § 5062C and § 5062D of Title 10 sunset in January 2020; and § 5062A of Title 10 sunset in January 2019.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47171&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB68)
2. **HA 1 to HB 68** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47295&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **360** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
- John A. Kowalko — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-06** Introduced and Assigned to Housing & Community Affairs Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Community Affairs) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Amendment HA 1 to HB 68 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-28** Amendment HA 1 to HB 68 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-07** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-06-05** 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/9d965d78-b81a-4ad1-b6cd-767a38278106`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).