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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RIGHTS OF TENANT EMPLOYEES."
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description: "This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once they are no longer employed for the landlord. The disclosure must inform the tenant employee that the landlord must offer the tenant, within 5 business days of termination by the employer, the opportunity to enter into a written rental agreement, if no rental agreement is in effect already. No offer for a rental agreement is necessary if the tenant employee is terminated for cause. The landlord may condition the rental agreement on the person financially qualifying as a tenant and meeting the landlord’s income, credit, or other financial requirements for renting the unit. This Act also lengthens the time period the landlord must wait before bringing a summary possession action against a formerly employed tenant from 15 days to 30 days unless the termination is for cause."
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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 363"
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citation: "Delaware HB 363 (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", "Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Paul S. Baumbach", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-04-11"
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last_action: "2024-10-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cde981e1-8993-405a-b9cc-fac322e4a722"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141174"
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source_hash: "ab00082902f532eb489330904468861b6319ffbbda4141c254868dfe2cbfcd7e"
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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 363 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 25 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RIGHTS OF TENANT EMPLOYEES.
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This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once they are no longer employed for the landlord. The disclosure must inform the tenant employee that the landlord must offer the tenant, within 5 business days of termination by the employer, the opportunity to enter into a written rental agreement, if no rental agreement is in effect already. No offer for a rental agreement is necessary if the tenant employee is terminated for cause. The landlord may condition the rental agreement on the person financially qualifying as a tenant and meeting the landlord’s income, credit, or other financial requirements for renting the unit. This Act also lengthens the time period the landlord must wait before bringing a summary possession action against a formerly employed tenant from 15 days to 30 days unless the termination is for cause.
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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=141174&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB363)
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## Votes
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- SM — **15–5** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **34–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — 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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- **2024-04-11** Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-25** Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-05-14** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 2 NO 3 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-05-14** Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-12** Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
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- **2024-10-09** 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/cde981e1-8993-405a-b9cc-fac322e4a722`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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