Delaware Senate Bill 247
Session 152
An Act To Amend Title 25 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Manufactured Housing.
Active
Passed House on Jun 30, 2024
Sponsors
16 Sponsors
Russell Huxtable
S. Elizabeth Lockman
David P. Sokola
Bryan Townsend
Kerri Evelyn Harris
Paul S. Baumbach
Franklin D. Cooke
Kendra Johnson
Sean Matthews
Peter C. Schwartzkopf
Marie Pinkney
Laura V. Sturgeon
John "Jack" Walsh
Darius J. Brown
Spiros Mantzavinos
Madinah Wilson-Anton
First Action
Jun 18, 2024
Latest Action
Jun 30, 2024
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill Number
247
State
Delaware
Session
152
Kerri Evelyn Harris
grade
Primary
Russell Huxtable
grade
Primary
checkPassed on June 18, 2024
Motion Text
SM
Senate Roll Call Votes
Eric Buckson
Yes
Other
Kyra L. Hoffner
Yes
Yes
Russell Huxtable
Yes
Yes
Summary
This Act creates a clearer and workable system for ensuring that manufactured home communities with health and safety violations and conditions that threaten the health and safety of people in the community cannot continue to raise rents on residents without fixing the conditions and providing a safe community for its residents.
This substitute differs from the original bill in that it does the following:
(1) Adds definitions to § 7003 for the whole chapter.
(2) Creates a section that provides requirements for what a community owner must do when it receives a citation or experiences a failure of services related to water, sewer, or utilities distributed by the community owner, including having to fix the problem within 10 days or give detailed reasons why it cannot be completed in that timeframe as well as provide a surety bond for 150% of the estimated cost if it cannot be done in that timeframe.
(3) Specifies that a community owner cannot impose a rent increase if it does not comply with the requirements of new section governing such repairs.
(4) Changes the court in which community owners may dispute a citation for purposes of receiving a rent increase from Superior Court to the Justice of the Peace Court.
This Substitute also makes the new version of § 7051A sunset on July 1, 2026. It reinserts the current version of § 7051A into the code on July 1, 2026, when the new version sunsets.
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06/30/2024
House
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NOT VOTING
06/28/2024
House
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
06/20/2024
House
Assigned to Housing Committee in House
06/18/2024
Senate
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING
06/18/2024
Senate
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 247
Sources
Open States
Record Created
Mar 21, 2024 11:11:48 PM
Record Updated
Jul 12, 2024 3:58:29 PM