republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-339.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REAL PROPERTY LIEN OF CRIMINAL-RELATED JUDGMENTS.	This Act provides protection to homeowners from sellers that may have misled buyers (or their settlement attorneys) regarding a criminal judgment that attached to real property. It prevents innocent owners from potentially becoming a second victim by having a prior owner’s lien attach for more than 7 years after the settlement.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 339	Delaware HB 339 (151)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Krista Griffith Kyle Evans Gay Sean M. Lynn Spiros Mantzavinos Stephanie L. Hansen William Bush	3	12	2	2022-03-22	2022-10-21	openstates	ocd-bill/bc05d7f7-da62-4117-9dd9-6682a6c222f8	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79260	a49fe8acb1a76e31a0c57c480a3120ad84f693ffdbe873125ebe5d3c4b501f35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 339 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REAL PROPERTY LIEN OF CRIMINAL-RELATED JUDGMENTS.

This Act provides protection to homeowners from sellers that may have misled buyers (or their settlement attorneys) regarding a criminal judgment that attached to real property. It prevents innocent owners from potentially becoming a second victim by having a prior owner’s lien attach for more than 7 years after the settlement.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 339 (committee substitute) — source
3. HA 2 to HB 339 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-22 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2022-04-07 Amendment HA 1 to HB 339 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-05-03 Amendment HA 2 to HB 339 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-05-03 Amendment HA 1 to HB 339 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-05-03 Amendment HA 2 to HB 339 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-05-03 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-05-03 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-06 Re-Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-10-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc05d7f7-da62-4117-9dd9-6682a6c222f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).