---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 12, 14, 16, AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH."
description: "This Act makes changes to provisions related to behavioral health and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to reflect current practices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 153"
citation: "Delaware SB 153 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Marie Pinkney", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-01"
last_action: "2023-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3d62178-cc58-4eb8-a433-b87af32ae5b1"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140481"
source_hash: "8921b7e24888b9a7fc7a7919606e849bc94a390f78ed04aa7056d979b74e7c54"
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 153 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 12, 14, 16, AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.

This Act makes changes to provisions related to behavioral health and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to reflect current practices.

## 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=140481&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB153)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-16** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2023-09-11** 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/a3d62178-cc58-4eb8-a433-b87af32ae5b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).