---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FENTANYL TESTING STRIPS."
description: "This Act authorizes the distribution of testing strips to determine the presence of fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Fentanyl testing strips could be distributed to the community along with opioid overdose reversal medication as a harm reduction strategy in the opioid addiction crisis. A number of states have authorized fentanyl testing strips distribution in recent years including Maryland, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Twenty-seven states currently provide fentanyl testing strips through needle exchange programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "Delaware SB 76 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Sarah McBride", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04"
last_action: "2021-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d85abf5f-969b-41ad-8842-e8aad1d9a2a1"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48404"
source_hash: "4b1bd235be2e45d28be8c2b864fad52e2b884f256054ff2e89f2a93926a83045"
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 76 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FENTANYL TESTING STRIPS.

This Act authorizes the distribution of testing strips to determine the presence of fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Fentanyl testing strips could be distributed to the community along with opioid overdose reversal medication as a harm reduction strategy in the opioid addiction crisis. A number of states have authorized fentanyl testing strips distribution in recent years including Maryland, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Twenty-seven states currently provide fentanyl testing strips through needle exchange programs.

## 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=48404&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB76)

## Votes

- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — 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.

- **2021-03-04** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-16** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-04-22** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-03** 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/d85abf5f-969b-41ad-8842-e8aad1d9a2a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).