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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY AND OBLIGATIONS OF HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS FOR NON-ACUTE PATIENTS."
+description: "Presently, a legal process does not exist for a Delaware hospital to seek the appointment of a guardian for a non-acute patient who has been a patient at the hospital for an extended period, after having been abandoned by family. This bill authorizes a hospital to petition for a court-appointed guardian for such a patient after providing two notices to the patient, the patient's surrogate, or the patient's family if there is no surrogate, of the need to seek a guardian for the patient."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "150"
+identifier: "SB 246"
+citation: "Delaware SB 246 (150)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nicole Poore", "Raymond Seigfried"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-06-16"
+last_action: "2020-08-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba554b9f-ef9d-4f49-8271-1bbb05bb627b"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48141"
+source_hash: "4a623e3dbaf210f735a7b48b6a7dab4057d0afd35a414d7d50d67b67d68e1947"
+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 246 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY AND OBLIGATIONS OF HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS FOR NON-ACUTE PATIENTS.
+
+Presently, a legal process does not exist for a Delaware hospital to seek the appointment of a guardian for a non-acute patient who has been a patient at the hospital for an extended period, after having been abandoned by family. This bill authorizes a hospital to petition for a court-appointed guardian for such a patient after providing two notices to the patient, the patient's surrogate, or the patient's family if there is no surrogate, of the need to seek a guardian for the patient.
+
+## 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=48141&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB246)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 2/3 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Raymond Seigfried — primary (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
+- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-06-16** Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-06-23** Suspension of Rules in Senate
+- **2020-06-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2020-06-23** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-25** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2020-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2020-08-06** 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/ba554b9f-ef9d-4f49-8271-1bbb05bb627b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+