---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE."
description: "This Act increases opportunities for federally qualified health centers (“FQHC”) and government-operated dental clinics to serve the indigent and other underserved communities with dental care and improves flexibility with updated provisional licensing processes for FQHC and government-operated dental clinic applicants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 277"
citation: "Delaware SB 277 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-28"
last_action: "2022-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1a0f32f-aca4-4a64-926e-66de722f483c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109412"
source_hash: "91daccc3d22137afc63ba21182304988adce42df6944d67a7a6e545e09bb897b"
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 277 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE.

This Act increases opportunities for federally qualified health centers (“FQHC”) and government-operated dental clinics to serve the indigent and other underserved communities with dental care and improves flexibility with updated provisional licensing processes for FQHC and government-operated dental clinic applicants.

## 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=109412&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB277)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — 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)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-28** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-05-13** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-30** 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/d1a0f32f-aca4-4a64-926e-66de722f483c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).