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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE."
+description: "This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act is consumer and patient friendly."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "SB 15"
+citation: "Delaware SB 15 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Catherine Cloutier", "Ernesto B Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Trey Paradee"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-24"
+last_action: "2019-08-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/747414f9-ea30-40cb-a670-1894c3dbc807"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37116"
+source_hash: "d523fbeea7e1fab4a9f8147705a79aae1abf17a4213e3cdb6363d98841c3f4ed"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware SB 15 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE.
+
+This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act is consumer and patient friendly.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=37116&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB15)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47423&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
+- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
+- Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-24** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-07** Amendment SA 1 to SB 15 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-07** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2019-05-08** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-16** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
+- **2019-08-21** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/747414f9-ea30-40cb-a670-1894c3dbc807`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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