---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE CREATING A PRESCRIPTION OPIOID IMPACT FUND."
description: "This Act creates a Prescription Opioid Impact Fund (“Fund”) through a prescription opioid impact fee (“Fee”) that is paid by pharmaceutical manufacturer. The anticipated revenue from the Fee is $2.8 million in 2020, $2.7 million in 2021, and $2.5 million in 2022.:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 34"
citation: "Delaware SB 34 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Delcollo", "David Bentz", "Kevin S Hensley", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-12"
last_action: "2019-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57812ec9-b41c-4cf5-b7d0-6b7d8c061ca5"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47187"
source_hash: "8b766578c266b2a78c3a405a351d4a3a694897b238e6c474ffcd96ef7fe47af6"
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 34 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE CREATING A PRESCRIPTION OPIOID IMPACT FUND.

This Act creates a Prescription Opioid Impact Fund (“Fund”) through a prescription opioid impact fee (“Fee”) that is paid by pharmaceutical manufacturer. The anticipated revenue from the Fee is $2.8 million in 2020, $2.7 million in 2021, and $2.5 million in 2022.:

## 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=47187&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB34)
2. **SA 1 to SB 34** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47316&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 3/5 — **33–8** (pass) · lower
- 3/5 — **17–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anthony Delcollo — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- David B. McBride — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-09** Amendment SA 1 to SB 34 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 NO `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 8 NO `passage`
- **2019-06-12** 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/57812ec9-b41c-4cf5-b7d0-6b7d8c061ca5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).