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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ESTABLISHING THE DELAWARE WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM."
description: "This Act establishes the “Delaware Workforce Housing Program\" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital costs associated with workforce housing units they create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 22"
citation: "Delaware SB 22 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Daniel B. Short", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Ronald E. Gray", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-24"
last_action: "2024-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c24957f0-184c-4350-a6ff-5f3b2bbda856"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141265"
source_hash: "34af654b7314d1966cdd3dd56b574936c66ac725eff83ef3ff1c23d36622a6dd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 22 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ESTABLISHING THE DELAWARE WORKFORCE HOUSING PROGRAM.
This Act establishes the “Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital costs associated with workforce housing units they create.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141265&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB22)
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — 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.
- **2024-04-24** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 22 `introduction`
- **2024-05-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-08-09** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c24957f0-184c-4350-a6ff-5f3b2bbda856`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).