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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT."
+description: "This Act terminates the Medical Marijuana Act Oversight Committee (\"Committee\"). After Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's (\"JLOSC\") thoroughly reviewed the Committee, JLOSC concluded that the Office of Medical Marijuana (\"Office\") oversees a functioning medical marijuana program without support from the Committee. Since October 15, 2015, the Committee has made only 2 recommendations to the Office relating to the medical marijuana program and has not made recommendations to the Governor or the General Assembly. Therefore, the Committee is not meeting a public need."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 356"
+citation: "Delaware HB 356 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kyle Evans Gay", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-03-22"
+last_action: "2022-10-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/244d858d-9163-49a9-9ee2-b8b52b5e0449"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79259"
+source_hash: "95fd9f79a38eed20d13aa167c51438d0edaa14abf50fd4068867191de53f9598"
+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 HB 356 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT.
+
+This Act terminates the Medical Marijuana Act Oversight Committee ("Committee"). After Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") thoroughly reviewed the Committee, JLOSC concluded that the Office of Medical Marijuana ("Office") oversees a functioning medical marijuana program without support from the Committee. Since October 15, 2015, the Committee has made only 2 recommendations to the Office relating to the medical marijuana program and has not made recommendations to the Governor or the General Assembly. Therefore, the Committee is not meeting a public need.
+
+## 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=79259&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB356)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
+- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-03-22** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2022-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2022-10-14** 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/244d858d-9163-49a9-9ee2-b8b52b5e0449`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+