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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SALES OF REAL ESTATE MADE BY A SHERIFF."
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description: "This act modifies the locations at which sheriff’s sales may be conducted to provide the sheriffs with needed flexibility and to modernize the sheriff’s sale process. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has revealed substantial inflexibility in 10 Del. C. § 4974 as currently adopted, forcing the sheriff of each of the three counties to either hold sheriff’s sales outdoors, find non-governmental venues in which to hold sheriff’s sales or cancel sheriff’s sales. Additionally, the New Castle County Sheriff is considering using an online auction process to conduct sheriff’s sales, as other counties throughout the United States have done, but § 4974 as currently adopted does not permit online sheriff’s sales. Finally, this act removes uncertainty regarding the meaning of the term “public building” as currently used in § 4974 by adopting a definition that is consistent with the Delaware Supreme Court’s definition of that term in Moore v. Wilmington Housing Authority, 619 A.2d 1166, 1174-75 (Del. 1993)."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 159"
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citation: "Delaware HB 159 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["John L. Mitchell", "Nicole Poore", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-04-27"
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last_action: "2021-09-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13d57802-bcf7-4c5d-9332-9d83d1d3b47f"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=68631"
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source_hash: "c3d183d072768a81342339b1a2db380d273d62ebf7690223ac404f71896e6294"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 159 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SALES OF REAL ESTATE MADE BY A SHERIFF.
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This act modifies the locations at which sheriff’s sales may be conducted to provide the sheriffs with needed flexibility and to modernize the sheriff’s sale process. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has revealed substantial inflexibility in 10 Del. C. § 4974 as currently adopted, forcing the sheriff of each of the three counties to either hold sheriff’s sales outdoors, find non-governmental venues in which to hold sheriff’s sales or cancel sheriff’s sales. Additionally, the New Castle County Sheriff is considering using an online auction process to conduct sheriff’s sales, as other counties throughout the United States have done, but § 4974 as currently adopted does not permit online sheriff’s sales. Finally, this act removes uncertainty regarding the meaning of the term “public building” as currently used in § 4974 by adopting a definition that is consistent with the Delaware Supreme Court’s definition of that term in Moore v. Wilmington Housing Authority, 619 A.2d 1166, 1174-75 (Del. 1993).
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=68631&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB159)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 159** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78906&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-04-27** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-19** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 159 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2021-06-17** Amendment HA 1 to HB 159 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2021-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2021-06-17** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2021-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2021-09-15** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13d57802-bcf7-4c5d-9332-9d83d1d3b47f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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