---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES."
description: "This Act requires long-term care facilities to offer the influenza vaccine to all employees with direct contact with patients. It also requires the facility to keep a record of a signed statement from each employee that the vaccine has been offered."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 431"
citation: "Delaware HB 431 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret Rose Henry", "Sean Matthews"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-07"
last_action: "2018-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9d18163-4198-47b2-99a6-d89078eef846"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26722"
source_hash: "95c1caae2de2989bb319178c20747affa4928d6d67b6c9914cbd2d9bd59b84f9"
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 431 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.

This Act requires long-term care facilities to offer the influenza vaccine to all employees with direct contact with patients. It also requires the facility to keep a record of a signed statement from each employee that the vaccine has been offered.

## 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=26722&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB431)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-07** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-06-19** Amendment HA 1 to HB 431 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to HB 431 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2018-07-23** 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/f9d18163-4198-47b2-99a6-d89078eef846`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).