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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FENTANYL TESTING STRIPS."
+description: "This Act authorizes the distribution of testing strips to determine the presence of fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Fentanyl testing strips could be distributed to the community along with opioid overdose reversal medication as a harm reduction strategy in the opioid addiction crisis. A number of states have authorized fentanyl testing strips distribution in recent years including Maryland, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Twenty-seven states currently provide fentanyl testing strips through needle exchange programs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "SB 76"
+citation: "Delaware SB 76 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Sarah McBride", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-04"
+last_action: "2021-06-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d85abf5f-969b-41ad-8842-e8aad1d9a2a1"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48404"
+source_hash: "4b1bd235be2e45d28be8c2b864fad52e2b884f256054ff2e89f2a93926a83045"
+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 76 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FENTANYL TESTING STRIPS.
+
+This Act authorizes the distribution of testing strips to determine the presence of fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Fentanyl testing strips could be distributed to the community along with opioid overdose reversal medication as a harm reduction strategy in the opioid addiction crisis. A number of states have authorized fentanyl testing strips distribution in recent years including Maryland, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Twenty-seven states currently provide fentanyl testing strips through needle exchange programs.
+
+## 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=48404&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB76)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David Bentz — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
+- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-04** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2021-03-24** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-16** Suspension of Rules in House
+- **2021-04-22** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** 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/d85abf5f-969b-41ad-8842-e8aad1d9a2a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+