republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-440.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HOUSING STATUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.	Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in employment and professional activities. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	HB 440	Delaware HB 440 (152)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Cyndie Romer Darius J. Brown Peter C. Schwartzkopf S. Elizabeth Lockman Sophie Phillips Spiros Mantzavinos Trey Paradee William Bush	1	7	2	2024-06-06	2024-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/2755c8d1-b5de-4b60-8572-e359cae6f400	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141518	d68aa029b55dc64e6c5eb6edf4da5588c6535a4f2860205c846fe30fed225126	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 440 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HOUSING STATUS DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.

Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in employment and professional activities. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sophie Phillips — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-06 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 ABSENT passage
• 2024-06-20 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO passage
• 2024-09-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2755c8d1-b5de-4b60-8572-e359cae6f400. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).