---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM."
description: "This bill establishes the Behavioral Health Consortium that will provide oversight and coordination of the State’s private and public bodies to address behavioral health issues in Delaware."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 111"
citation: "Delaware SB 111 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David B. McBride", "David Bentz", "Helene M. Keeley", "John J. Viola", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-14"
last_action: "2017-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec8dd99e-c464-42d2-b543-3f9c4ef47be1"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25946"
source_hash: "24f341e71adde65fd1f886aedbce747041fa990807403c44a459609510103f27"
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 111 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM.

This bill establishes the Behavioral Health Consortium that will provide oversight and coordination of the State’s private and public bodies to address behavioral health issues in Delaware.

## 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=25946&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB111)

## Votes

- SM — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- John J. Viola — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — 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.

- **2017-06-14** Introduced and Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Amendment SA 1 to SB 111 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-22** Amendment SA 1 to SB 111 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-23** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-01** Passed By House. Votes: 41 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/ec8dd99e-c464-42d2-b543-3f9c4ef47be1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).