Delaware House Bill 397

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on July 17 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-07-17 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

The purpose of this Act is to reduce the cost to the State in addressing ownership of land encumbered by public right-of-way permanent easements when the land has been abandoned by a prior owner and a current owner cannot be located. This Act will allow the Department, in the name of the State, to obtain fee simple ownership of land encumbered by right-of-ways, previously conveyed to the Department by permanent easement, when such right-of-ways are part of a current Department project. This Act requires the Department to promulgate regulations to establish the procedures for establishing that the land has been abandoned and for recording its fee simple ownership of the land.

An Act To Amend Title 17 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Establishment Of Department Of Transportation Ownership Of Abandoned Land Encumbered By The Departments Right-of-way Easements.

Rep. Sean Matthews [D]

Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]

2024-06-30 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-06-18 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-07-17		Signed by Governor
2024-06-30		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2024-06-26		Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2024-06-18		Assigned to Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee in Senate
2024-06-18		Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT
2024-06-12		Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 6 On Its Merits
2024-05-15		Introduced and Assigned to Transportation Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141386
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=141386&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB397
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#55952
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#56349