---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
description: "This Act removes the requirement that a psychiatrist be the physician who signs the written certification in support of an applicant's application for medical marijuana and adds anxiety to the list of debilitating conditions which a person can have to be eligible for medical marijuana. This Act also makes technical corrections to the statute."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 24"
citation: "Delaware SB 24 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Helene M. Keeley", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-03-16"
last_action: "2017-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b458a65-fdb4-4212-8f06-2dbc3f0f0005"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25447"
source_hash: "f0de332c3e8dcf7498713f7af496451b2d6f713dff3d21fe207a0e4133981279"
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 24 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

This Act removes the requirement that a psychiatrist be the physician who signs the written certification in support of an applicant's application for medical marijuana and adds anxiety to the list of debilitating conditions which a person can have to be eligible for medical marijuana. This Act also makes technical corrections to the statute.

## 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=25447&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB24)

## Votes

- SM — **36–1** (pass) · lower
- SM — **9–1** (fail) · upper
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-16** Defeated By Senate. Votes: 9 YES 1 NO 10 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `failure`
- **2017-05-18** Reconsidered in Senate
- **2017-05-18** Roll Call Rescinded in Senate
- **2017-05-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 24 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-05-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 24 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-01** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2017-07-12** 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/9b458a65-fdb4-4212-8f06-2dbc3f0f0005`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).