Delaware House Bill 363 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Passed on October 9 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-10-09 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

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 landlords 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.

An Act To Amend Title 25 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Rights Of Tenant Employees.

Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]
Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]

2024-06-30 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 15 N: 5 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-05-14 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 34 N: 2 NV: 3 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-10-09		Signed by Governor
2024-06-30		Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING
2024-06-12		Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits
2024-05-14		Assigned to Housing & Land Use Committee in Senate
2024-05-14		Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 2 NO 3 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT
2024-04-25		Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2024-04-11		Introduced and Assigned to Housing Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141174
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141174&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB363
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#55624
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#56416