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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 12, 14, 16, AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
+description: "This Act makes changes to provisions related to behavioral health and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to reflect current practices."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 153"
+citation: "Delaware SB 153 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Marie Pinkney", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-06-01"
+last_action: "2023-09-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3d62178-cc58-4eb8-a433-b87af32ae5b1"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140481"
+source_hash: "8921b7e24888b9a7fc7a7919606e849bc94a390f78ed04aa7056d979b74e7c54"
+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 153 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 12, 14, 16, AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.
+
+This Act makes changes to provisions related to behavioral health and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to reflect current practices.
+
+## 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=140481&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB153)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-06-16** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
+- **2023-09-11** 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/a3d62178-cc58-4eb8-a433-b87af32ae5b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+