---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRESCRIPTIONS."
description: "This Bill requires Podiatrists, Dentists, Doctors, Nurses and Optometrists who issue prescriptions to utilize electronic prescriptions except under certain exceptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 115"
citation: "Delaware HB 115 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Harris B. McDowell", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-04"
last_action: "2019-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22225f66-a644-4a63-8fb8-1265bd393046"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47309"
source_hash: "1fe0cc4c6e7893ae9f9f5bbf06ae1be2a69394384a1eb6d9b8ab5467bb238117"
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 115 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRESCRIPTIONS.

This Bill requires Podiatrists, Dentists, Doctors, Nurses and Optometrists who issue prescriptions to utilize electronic prescriptions except under certain exceptions.

## 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=47309&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB115)

## Votes

- SM — **37–2** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-04** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-14** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-11** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-27** 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/22225f66-a644-4a63-8fb8-1265bd393046`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).