---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16, TITLE 18, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRIMARY CARE SERVICES."
description: "This Act promotes the use of primary care by doing the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 227"
citation: "Delaware SB 227 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-06-05"
last_action: "2018-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e757423-75c3-47c7-a7d9-7213a36e382c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26743"
source_hash: "66194354ce7107322d3d9d5c6dc704e9649d44c15ad72eaa67f78df01eb1bc1a"
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 227 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16, TITLE 18, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRIMARY CARE SERVICES.

This Act promotes the use of primary care by doing the following:

## 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=26743&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB227)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-13** Amendment SA 1 to SB 227 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-06-14** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to SB 227 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to HA 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-27** Amendment HA 1 to SB 227 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2018-06-28** Rules Suspended in Senate
- **2018-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-08-29** 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/4e757423-75c3-47c7-a7d9-7213a36e382c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).