---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY-BASED NALOXONE ACCESS PROGRAM."
description: "This Act clarifies that a lay individual who administers naloxone under the Community-Based Naloxone Access Program is protected from civil liability for rendering emergency care under § 6801 of Title 16, the general Good Samaritan law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "Delaware SB 77 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Bentz", "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/ff0edca4-ea04-460b-928b-4c67ae5c5f89"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48407"
source_hash: "3d69f4cd5d1cef73d093037c498f73268e6f6d794cb32eed264df33296c596cb"
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 77 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY-BASED NALOXONE ACCESS PROGRAM.

This Act clarifies that a lay individual who administers naloxone under the Community-Based Naloxone Access Program is protected from civil liability for rendering emergency care under § 6801 of Title 16, the general Good Samaritan law.

## 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=48407&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB77)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — 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`
- **2021-03-24** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-23** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `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/ff0edca4-ea04-460b-928b-4c67ae5c5f89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).