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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE BETWEEN SPOUSES. | This Act resolves ambiguities in the current law and confirms the ability of a spouse who owns real property as tenant by the entirety, acting alone, to convey that spouse’s interest in such real property to both spouses, as tenants by the entirety or otherwise, or to the other spouse. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 152 | HB 131 | Delaware HB 131 (152) |
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1 | 7 | 2 | 2023-04-27 | 2023-06-29 | openstates | ocd-bill/84428785-ec6d-4cf7-8fdc-cfca37adc163 | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130267 | 13a97c092464d9d32569e442df19e9a699fc1cef8833e0a2b8b1fbaf7a4e0eb6 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 131 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE BETWEEN SPOUSES.
This Act resolves ambiguities in the current law and confirms the ability of a spouse who owns real property as tenant by the entirety, acting alone, to convey that spouse’s interest in such real property to both spouses, as tenants by the entirety or otherwise, or to the other spouse.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — 20–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-04-27 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2023-05-02 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2023-05-04 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT
passage - 2023-05-04 Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2023-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 8 On Its Merits
committee-passage - 2023-06-20 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
passage - 2023-06-29 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84428785-ec6d-4cf7-8fdc-cfca37adc163. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).