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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS."
+description: "This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed in a multiyear collaborative and non-partisan process to modernize and expand on the 1993 version of the act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "SB 309"
+citation: "Delaware SB 309 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-05-16"
+last_action: "2024-09-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141421"
+source_hash: "248f4bd84d19336ee5cd0e830f1cee7cafe688e34c11c7a7f6a1b9e0269be1f5"
+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 309 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS.
+
+This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed in a multiyear collaborative and non-partisan process to modernize and expand on the 1993 version of the act.
+
+## 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=141421&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB309)
+2. **SA 1 to SB 309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141594&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **19–2** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-06-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-06-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
+- **2024-09-30** 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/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+