---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NURSING."
description: "This Act permits licensed child care providers, who successfully complete a State-approved medication training, to administer medication to children in their care, including by non-intravenous injection, if a child has a medical need during child care hours that requires it."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 352"
citation: "Delaware HB 352 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret Rose Henry", "Sean Matthews", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-22"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4958e6fb-a381-4869-86af-727540971ca5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26406"
source_hash: "25a9d6da3be77d50fbfc6c5367ab28f6ae1c4cec671aca26ccc6d3887df2b77f"
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 352 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NURSING.

This Act permits licensed child care providers, who successfully complete a State-approved medication training, to administer medication to children in their care, including by non-intravenous injection, if a child has a medical need during child care hours that requires it.

## 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=26406&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB352)

## Votes

- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-22** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-05** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-05** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-07-01** 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/4958e6fb-a381-4869-86af-727540971ca5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).