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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE."
+description: "This Act increases opportunities for federally qualified health centers (“FQHC”) and government-operated dental clinics to serve the indigent and other underserved communities with dental care and improves flexibility with updated provisional licensing processes for FQHC and government-operated dental clinic applicants."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 277"
+citation: "Delaware SB 277 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Sarah McBride"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-04-28"
+last_action: "2022-08-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1a0f32f-aca4-4a64-926e-66de722f483c"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109412"
+source_hash: "91daccc3d22137afc63ba21182304988adce42df6944d67a7a6e545e09bb897b"
+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 277 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE.
+
+This Act increases opportunities for federally qualified health centers (“FQHC”) and government-operated dental clinics to serve the indigent and other underserved communities with dental care and improves flexibility with updated provisional licensing processes for FQHC and government-operated dental clinic applicants.
+
+## 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=109412&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB277)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-04-28** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-05-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-05-13** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2022-08-30** 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/d1a0f32f-aca4-4a64-926e-66de722f483c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+