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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HOUSING."
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description: "House Substitute No. 2 to House Bill 212 prohibits manufactured home community owners from increasing rent if the rent was increased by 5 percent or more the previous year or rental period, instead permitting an increase capped at 3 percent. This Act does not prohibit a community owner from increasing rent to market rent in phases as called for in current law, even if doing so would otherwise violate the prohibition on increasing rent after a 5 percent or more increase. It also allows a greater increase where more than 50% of the homeowners use the property as a second residence. This Act clarifies that penalties of rent reduction and repayment of excess rent will be imposed for a community owner who increases rent in violation of any provision of Title 25, Chapter 70."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 212"
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citation: "Delaware HB 212 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2023-06-27"
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last_action: "2024-11-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7281065-0330-4e00-aa2d-fd56b5219148"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140740"
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source_hash: "d9a22fe075aba77d12c6fe8673b9c96dcf15dfc80c8c07b6d779cc55a35e420f"
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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 212 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HOUSING.
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House Substitute No. 2 to House Bill 212 prohibits manufactured home community owners from increasing rent if the rent was increased by 5 percent or more the previous year or rental period, instead permitting an increase capped at 3 percent. This Act does not prohibit a community owner from increasing rent to market rent in phases as called for in current law, even if doing so would otherwise violate the prohibition on increasing rent after a 5 percent or more increase. It also allows a greater increase where more than 50% of the homeowners use the property as a second residence. This Act clarifies that penalties of rent reduction and repayment of excess rent will be imposed for a community owner who increases rent in violation of any provision of Title 25, Chapter 70.
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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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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140740&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS2forHB212)
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2. **SA 1 to HS 2 for HB 212** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141704&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **25–13** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **29–10** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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- William J. Carson — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-06-27** was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 212 `introduction`
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- **2023-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 13 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-06-28** Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-30** Amendment SA 1 to HS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2024-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
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- **2024-06-30** Amendment SA 1 to HS 2 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NOT VOTING `amendment-passage`
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- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 10 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-11-02** 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/b7281065-0330-4e00-aa2d-fd56b5219148`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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