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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR NURSING PROFESSIONALS."
+description: "This Act amends the continuing education requirements for nursing professionals, mandating that all nursing professionals receive at least one hour of continuing education in each reporting period on the recognition of sexual or physical abuse, exploitation, or domestic violence of vulnerable populations, or on the reporting obligations under the rules and regulations of the Board of Nursing. The Act removes the requirement for nursing professionals who work in adult gerontology to complete continuing education on the topic of diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 223"
+citation: "Delaware HB 223 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kendra Johnson", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Valerie Jones Giltner"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-06-09"
+last_action: "2024-10-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ee9ec80-7ef4-486f-8e3c-2ab1a04cf453"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140574"
+source_hash: "5c0cdaa832d17d5937680956932c848fa1d658a9316f096e6e7073220be84227"
+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 223 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR NURSING PROFESSIONALS.
+
+This Act amends the continuing education requirements for nursing professionals, mandating that all nursing professionals receive at least one hour of continuing education in each reporting period on the recognition of sexual or physical abuse, exploitation, or domestic violence of vulnerable populations, or on the reporting obligations under the rules and regulations of the Board of Nursing. The Act removes the requirement for nursing professionals who work in adult gerontology to complete continuing education on the topic of diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.
+
+## 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=140574&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB223)
+2. **HA 2 to HB 223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140738&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+3. **HA 3 to HB 223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141581&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Valerie Jones Giltner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-09** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-23** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable`
+- **2023-06-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 223 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2023-06-27** Amendment HA 2 to HB 223 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 3 to HB 223 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 1 to HB 223 - Stricken in House
+- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 2 to HB 223 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-06-13** Amendment HA 3 to HB 223 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-06-13** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-06-13** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-10-23** 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/5ee9ec80-7ef4-486f-8e3c-2ab1a04cf453`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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