---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRUG ABUSE."
description: "This act establishes the Addiction Action Committee as a means to establish a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to address addiction in Delaware. The committee is authorized to make recommendations on a comprehensive approach to address and monitor the addiction crisis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 220"
citation: "Delaware HB 220 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz", "Helene M. Keeley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-13"
last_action: "2017-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cd393c8-a51d-4b02-a397-89106a3e0b39"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25944"
source_hash: "d48817850c9afd140e51dfe92970d63f4b6d81df0ca22962e1eabf68fb1920c7"
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 220 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DRUG ABUSE.

This act establishes the Addiction Action Committee as a means to establish a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to address addiction in Delaware. The committee is authorized to make recommendations on a comprehensive approach to address and monitor the addiction crisis.

## 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=25944&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB220)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie George Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-13** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2017-06-23** Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2017-08-16** 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/7cd393c8-a51d-4b02-a397-89106a3e0b39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).