---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VETERINARY TECHNICIANS."
description: "This bill allows licensed veterinary technicians, as well as licensed veterinarians, to administer rabies vaccinations to dogs, cats, and ferrets."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "Delaware SB 228 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38d059b7-711d-4ca9-9c57-484a3d5deafe"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79153"
source_hash: "4779cf2b4d91be9d302ed5fd39e171b8cb114b2bebf21dbc9f2f83fa7a67bcf9"
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 228 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VETERINARY TECHNICIANS.

This bill allows licensed veterinary technicians, as well as licensed veterinarians, to administer rabies vaccinations to dogs, cats, and ferrets.

## 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=79153&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB228)
2. **SA 1 to SB 228** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=99339&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-03** Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 228 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2022-05-10** Amendment SA 1 to SB 228 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2022-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-05-11** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-10-03** 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/38d059b7-711d-4ca9-9c57-484a3d5deafe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).