---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE LIVING DONOR PROTECTION ACT."
description: "This Act, known as the Living Donor Protection Act, prohibits discrimination based on an individual’s status as a living organ or tissue donor in the offering, issuance, cancellation, coverage, price, or other condition of an insurance policy, including a life, health, disability, or long-term care insurance policy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 218"
citation: "Delaware SB 218 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B. Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephen Smyk"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-26"
last_action: "2022-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c73ef6ad-6d68-45f8-84c9-001e7d30ab43"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79129"
source_hash: "84caa45dcda373f57b91c6d1f97ab4a1e444d30bf96c2cdea9be9cb626fa1829"
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 218 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE LIVING DONOR PROTECTION ACT.

This Act, known as the Living Donor Protection Act, prohibits discrimination based on an individual’s status as a living organ or tissue donor in the offering, issuance, cancellation, coverage, price, or other condition of an insurance policy, including a life, health, disability, or long-term care insurance policy.

## 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=79129&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB218)
2. **SA 1 to SB 218** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=79197&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-26** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Amendment SA 1 to SB 218 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Amendment SA 1 to SB 218 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 13 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-24** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-04-28** 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/c73ef6ad-6d68-45f8-84c9-001e7d30ab43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).