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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD TENANT GUIDE."
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description: "This Act establishes the Rights and Responsibilities Guide for Landlords and Tenants Committee (“Committee”) within the Delaware Real Estate Commission (“Commission”). The Commission is tasked with drafting, maintaining, and distributing a comprehensive, statewide rights & responsibilities guide (“guide”) for landlords and tenants with support from the Committee. This guide will reference responsibilities that a tenant or landlord must follow, including federal, state, county, and municipal requirements."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "153"
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identifier: "HB 311"
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citation: "Delaware HB 311 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Kimberly Williams", "Mara Gorman", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2026-03-05"
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last_action: "2026-06-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/840f4630-98dd-4d5a-8ef7-a98588f571fc"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142906"
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source_hash: "80bcc0feb31d3941d779b195c49b923f29a814c33fb63f272c52485fc0724536"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 311 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 AND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD TENANT GUIDE.
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This Act establishes the Rights and Responsibilities Guide for Landlords and Tenants Committee (“Committee”) within the Delaware Real Estate Commission (“Commission”). The Commission is tasked with drafting, maintaining, and distributing a comprehensive, statewide rights & responsibilities guide (“guide”) for landlords and tenants with support from the Committee. This guide will reference responsibilities that a tenant or landlord must follow, including federal, state, county, and municipal requirements.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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## Votes
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- SM — **29–4** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-03-05** Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2026-03-10** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-04-23** Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 4 NO 2 NOT VOTING 6 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2026-04-23** Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2026-05-20** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2026-06-10** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/840f4630-98dd-4d5a-8ef7-a98588f571fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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