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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OF RESIDENTS OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES."
+description: "This Act amends the long-term care resident’s bill of rights to provide that residents may not be subject to discrimination based on their membership in a protected class. Specifically, this Act does the following:"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "153"
+identifier: "SB 83"
+citation: "Delaware SB 83 (153)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-04-03"
+last_action: "2025-09-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4f66191-a875-46e6-9820-694842bc8137"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142037"
+source_hash: "20e445f803be346d612c29777ad2272a65fdc468977e66bbfcf58cd84c0e6f95"
+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 83 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OF RESIDENTS OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.
+
+This Act amends the long-term care resident’s bill of rights to provide that residents may not be subject to discrimination based on their membership in a protected class. Specifically, this Act does the following:
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
+- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-03** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-14** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2025-05-15** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
+- **2025-09-03** 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/c4f66191-a875-46e6-9820-694842bc8137`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+