republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-363.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RIGHTS OF TENANT EMPLOYEES.	This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once they are no longer employed for the landlord. The disclosure must inform the tenant employee that the landlord must offer the tenant, within 5 business days of termination by the employer, the opportunity to enter into a written rental agreement, if no rental agreement is in effect already. No offer for a rental agreement is necessary if the tenant employee is terminated for cause. The landlord may condition the rental agreement on the person financially qualifying as a tenant and meeting the landlord’s income, credit, or other financial requirements for renting the unit. This Act also lengthens the time period the landlord must wait before bringing a summary possession action against a formerly employed tenant from 15 days to 30 days unless the termination is for cause.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 363	Delaware HB 363 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend David P. Sokola Eric Morrison Madinah Wilson-Anton Marie Pinkney Paul S. Baumbach S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos	1	7	2	2024-04-11	2024-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/cde981e1-8993-405a-b9cc-fac322e4a722	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141174	ab00082902f532eb489330904468861b6319ffbbda4141c254868dfe2cbfcd7e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 363 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RIGHTS OF TENANT EMPLOYEES.

This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once they are no longer employed for the landlord. The disclosure must inform the tenant employee that the landlord must offer the tenant, within 5 business days of termination by the employer, the opportunity to enter into a written rental agreement, if no rental agreement is in effect already. No offer for a rental agreement is necessary if the tenant employee is terminated for cause. The landlord may condition the rental agreement on the person financially qualifying as a tenant and meeting the landlord’s income, credit, or other financial requirements for renting the unit. This Act also lengthens the time period the landlord must wait before bringing a summary possession action against a formerly employed tenant from 15 days to 30 days unless the termination is for cause.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 15–5 (pass) · upper
• SM — 34–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-11 Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-04-25 Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-14 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 2 NO 3 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT passage
• 2024-05-14 Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING passage
• 2024-10-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cde981e1-8993-405a-b9cc-fac322e4a722. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).