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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TENANT'S REMEDIES RELATING TO THE RENTAL UNIT. | This bill increases the amount that a tenant may deduct from rent in order to have necessary work done on the rental premises if the landlord fails to repair or maintain the premises after proper notice. The original amount of $200 was selected at the time that the Landlord Tenant Code was drafted in 1996. The amended amount of $400 reflects inflation of rent and cost of repairs. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 151 | HB 60 | Delaware HB 60 (151) |
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1 | 9 | 2 | 2020-12-18 | 2021-09-30 | openstates | ocd-bill/0c79a83c-da2c-4481-83d7-439e07a2e895 | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48236 | e9d13427bfa5bb8a672894a6e321a5bd052e0fb3f47c2007a3ffa505b2c565e0 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 60 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TENANT'S REMEDIES RELATING TO THE RENTAL UNIT.
This bill increases the amount that a tenant may deduct from rent in order to have necessary work done on the rental premises if the landlord fails to repair or maintain the premises after proper notice. The original amount of $200 was selected at the time that the Landlord Tenant Code was drafted in 1996. The amended amount of $400 reflects inflation of rent and cost of repairs.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
- SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-12-18 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2021-03-09 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-19 Suspension of Rules in House
- 2021-03-19 Suspension of Rules in House
- 2021-03-25 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
passage - 2021-03-25 Assigned to Housing Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2021-05-13 Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in Senate with 5 Favorable
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
passage - 2021-09-30 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c79a83c-da2c-4481-83d7-439e07a2e895. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).