Delaware House Bill 22 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2-1)
Status: Passed on May 10 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-05-10 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [HTML]

This Bill amends the format in which abandoned personal property is defined to make it simpler to read and adds a provision that the language used in the forms of applications, notices and declarations should be simple and non-technical. Additionally, this Bill provides the owner or person claiming an interest in the property the ability to file a replevin counterclaim, in addition to defending the abandoned property claim, prior to the final determination of title by the Court. Finally, this Bill amends the notice requirement for a sale from 30 days to 15 days and requires publication of the sale in 5 public places, making the notification requires consistent with actions of a similar nature, such as garagekeeper’s liens.

An Act To Amend Title 25 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Abandoned Property

Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Rep. George [?]	Sen. Bethany Hall-Long [D]	Sen. Margaret Henry [D]
Rep. James Johnson [D]	Rep. Harvey Kenton [R]	Sen. Robert Venables [D]	Rep. Rebecca Walker [D]
Sen. David Wilson [R]

2011-05-03 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2011-03-24 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-10		Signed by Governor
2011-05-03		Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2011-05-03		Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits
2011-04-06		Amendment SA 1 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate
2011-03-29		Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate
2011-03-24		Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 37 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2011-03-24		Amendment HA 1 - Passed in House by Voice Vote
2011-03-16		Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 6 On Its Merits
2011-01-26		Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2011-01-25		Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/1903b43e2780fac88525781e00748fce?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+22/$file/1031460010.doc?open
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+22/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/20c97f00a5bd11a88525785d006d0031?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/d33b7a0118c81a8f852578850071c307?OpenDocument