---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FALSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RECORDS."
description: "This Bill expands the offense of falsifying business records by including the act of altering or modifying and creating false medical records. Currently, no specific statute exists to prevent a person from falsely creating, altering, or modifying a medical record. Expanding the offense of falsifying business records to include medical records will be a useful tool for combating healthcare provider fraud, protecting patients, and assisting patients in ensuring the integrity of their medical records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 369"
citation: "Delaware HB 369 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "John Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-04-12"
last_action: "2018-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f7b2221-aa45-45b9-b421-88eb22cd9977"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26485"
source_hash: "08763a5b66a9025dd6222446b5db86784ff4605637d423517cdb45910b9597bd"
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 369 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FALSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RECORDS.

This Bill expands the offense of falsifying business records by including the act of altering or modifying and creating false medical records. Currently, no specific statute exists to prevent a person from falsely creating, altering, or modifying a medical record. Expanding the offense of falsifying business records to include medical records will be a useful tool for combating healthcare provider fraud, protecting patients, and assisting patients in ensuring the integrity of their medical records.

## 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=26485&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB369)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John Walsh — primary (person)
- Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-12** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-25** Amendment HA 1 to HB 369 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-26** Amendment HA 1 to HB 369 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-04-29** Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 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/1f7b2221-aa45-45b9-b421-88eb22cd9977`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).