---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NALOXONE AND OTHER OPIOID ANTAGONISTS."
description: "An opioid antagonist is a medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency reversal of a known or suspected opioid overdose. Currently, naloxone is the only FDA-approved opioid antagonist, however, the FDA is expected to approve at least 1 new, more powerful opioid antagonist in 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 292"
citation: "Delaware SB 292 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "David Bentz", "Sarah McBride", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-05-09"
last_action: "2022-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1842e8a7-a4f6-4e58-be25-84e3f4d0a461"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109462"
source_hash: "4ea1d83e540f0c028062d192b39c223ff9cb74cba67cc3b9fb69e2eb9760525d"
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 292 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NALOXONE AND OTHER OPIOID ANTAGONISTS.

An opioid antagonist is a medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency reversal of a known or suspected opioid overdose. Currently, naloxone is the only FDA-approved opioid antagonist, however, the FDA is expected to approve at least 1 new, more powerful opioid antagonist 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=109462&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB292)
2. **SA 1 to SB 292** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109521&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — 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)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-09** 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 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-16** Amendment SA 1 to SB 292 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-05-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 292 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2022-05-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-05-18** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-11-02** 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/1842e8a7-a4f6-4e58-be25-84e3f4d0a461`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).