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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BLOOD BANK."
+description: "This Act removes membership with the Blood Bank of Delaware as a recognized benefit by the State due to changes in policies in how hospitals and insurance companies bill for blood replacement and blood replacement procedures."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 159"
+citation: "Delaware SB 159 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-06-01"
+last_action: "2024-05-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3783a1d2-0e7d-45bc-8c49-958f0976e3ce"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140497"
+source_hash: "15cc86dbcbc181eb02829bce791b9b54319f5d38aaa9db2c2db33e57e035e1bf"
+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 159 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BLOOD BANK.
+
+This Act removes membership with the Blood Bank of Delaware as a recognized benefit by the State due to changes in policies in how hospitals and insurance companies bill for blood replacement and blood replacement procedures.
+
+## 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=140497&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB159)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
+- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2023-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-06** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-14** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-05-16** 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/3783a1d2-0e7d-45bc-8c49-958f0976e3ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+