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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS."
description: "This Act exempts from school property taxes real estate owned by Todmorden Foundation and used for the purposes of affordable housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "Delaware SB 78 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kendra Johnson", "S. Elizabeth Lockman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-09"
last_action: "2024-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f64b151f-d9c7-4960-b1ae-05a01008d389"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141345"
source_hash: "bbc0202a60131889eba0b753e61d592286032eb4a3717482dde11d3c331b9940"
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 78 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS.
This Act exempts from school property taxes real estate owned by Todmorden Foundation and used for the purposes of affordable housing.
## 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=141345&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB78)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-22** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-06-13** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-19** 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/f64b151f-d9c7-4960-b1ae-05a01008d389`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).