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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENT INCREASE DISPUTE RESOLUTION."
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description: "If a community owner proposes a rent increase that exceeds the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City area (CPI-U), then the Delaware Manufactured Home relocation Authority is mandated to hold a final meeting between the community owner and the affected homeowners, and the homeowners’ association to discuss the reasons for the proposed increase. This Act allows the following to attend the final meeting: (1) the homeowners’ designee; (2) the homeowner’s attorney; (3) The attorney for the homeowners’ association; (4) A representative from the Delaware Manufactured Home Owners Association; and (5) Elected Delaware officials."
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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 5"
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citation: "Delaware HB 5 (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 \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams", "William J. Carson"]
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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: "2021-03-09"
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last_action: "2021-09-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd60c3d2-a532-477d-afc1-ea7acf44f2e3"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48438"
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source_hash: "77e84715990150a22c86599b6365d91b67d452a424807d3b8f08c9c17995ff7b"
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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 5 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RENT INCREASE DISPUTE RESOLUTION.
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If a community owner proposes a rent increase that exceeds the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City area (CPI-U), then the Delaware Manufactured Home relocation Authority is mandated to hold a final meeting between the community owner and the affected homeowners, and the homeowners’ association to discuss the reasons for the proposed increase. This Act allows the following to attend the final meeting: (1) the homeowners’ designee; (2) the homeowner’s attorney; (3) The attorney for the homeowners’ association; (4) A representative from the Delaware Manufactured Home Owners Association; and (5) Elected Delaware officials.
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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=48438&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB5)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=58532&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **34–7** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **18–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- William J. Carson — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-03-09** Introduced and Assigned to Manufactured Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-30** Amendment HA 1 to HB 5 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2021-04-01** Reported Out of Committee (Manufactured Housing) in House with 4 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-04-29** Amendment HA 1 to HB 5 - Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `amendment-passage`
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- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO `passage`
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- **2021-04-29** Assigned to Housing Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2021-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `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/dd60c3d2-a532-477d-afc1-ea7acf44f2e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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