---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE."
description: "This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act is consumer and patient friendly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "Delaware SB 15 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Catherine Cloutier", "Ernesto B Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-08-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/747414f9-ea30-40cb-a670-1894c3dbc807"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37116"
source_hash: "d523fbeea7e1fab4a9f8147705a79aae1abf17a4213e3cdb6363d98841c3f4ed"
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 15 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE.

This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act is consumer and patient friendly.

## 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=37116&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB15)
2. **SA 1 to SB 15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47423&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-07** Amendment SA 1 to SB 15 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-07** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-05-08** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2019-08-21** 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/747414f9-ea30-40cb-a670-1894c3dbc807`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).