Delaware House Bill 337 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-5)
Status: Passed on October 26 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-10-26 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act makes it easier to properly clear title to real property after a person dies if the person held real property jointly with the right of survivorship. With more frequency, a deceased person may die as a resident in a county that is different from the county in which the deceased owned real property. This Act provides relief to those who are the surviving joint owner of a person who died in a county that is different than the county where the real property is located. The surviving joint owner of real property may not have anything to do with the deceased persons estate, or the probate of it, making it difficult for the surviving joint owner to obtain exemplified copies from different states or countries, which results in the loss of valuable time and money to the surviving joint owner.

An Act To Amend Title 12 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Jointly Held Real-estate Affidavits And Filing At The Register Of Wills.

Rep. William Bush [D]	Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]
Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]	Rep. Kevin Hensley [R]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]
Rep. Michael Smith [R]	Rep. Stephen Smyk [R]	Rep. Jeffrey Spiegelman [R]

2022-06-28 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-04-14 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-10-26		Signed by Governor
2022-06-28		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2022-05-11		Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
2022-04-14		Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate
2022-04-14		Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT
2022-04-05		Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
2022-03-15		Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79231
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=79231&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB337
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53085
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53719