---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BLOOD BANK."
description: "This Act removes membership with the Blood Bank of Delaware as a recognized benefit by the State due to changes in policies in how hospitals and insurance companies bill for blood replacement and blood replacement procedures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 159"
citation: "Delaware SB 159 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David P. Sokola", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Valerie Longhurst"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-01"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3783a1d2-0e7d-45bc-8c49-958f0976e3ce"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140497"
source_hash: "15cc86dbcbc181eb02829bce791b9b54319f5d38aaa9db2c2db33e57e035e1bf"
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 159 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BLOOD BANK.

This Act removes membership with the Blood Bank of Delaware as a recognized benefit by the State due to changes in policies in how hospitals and insurance companies bill for blood replacement and blood replacement procedures.

## 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=140497&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB159)

## Votes

- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-14** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-05-16** 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/3783a1d2-0e7d-45bc-8c49-958f0976e3ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).