---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE MEDICAL ORDERS FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT ACT."
description: "The Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment “DMOST” was enacted in 2016 under HB 64 (148th). The DMOST form allows Delawareans to plan ahead for health-care decisions, express their wishes in writing, and both enable and obligate health care professionals to act in accordance with a patient’s expressed preferences. A DMOST form is different than an Advance Health-Care Directive because a DMOST form contains portable medical orders that respect the patient’s goals for care in regard to the use of CPR and other medical interventions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 195"
citation: "Delaware SB 195 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Marie Pinkney", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-28"
last_action: "2024-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51e52ef7-f014-42f5-bc2c-233615614a21"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140759"
source_hash: "3bf17f2fe9e9e4d9eb11273704edd8a826f6bc608367320e7f42747e70b32b79"
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 195 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE MEDICAL ORDERS FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT ACT.

The Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment “DMOST” was enacted in 2016 under HB 64 (148th). The DMOST form allows Delawareans to plan ahead for health-care decisions, express their wishes in writing, and both enable and obligate health care professionals to act in accordance with a patient’s expressed preferences. A DMOST form is different than an Advance Health-Care Directive because a DMOST form contains portable medical orders that respect the patient’s goals for care in regard to the use of CPR and other medical interventions.

## 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=140759&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB195)

## Votes

- SM — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-28** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-17** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-25** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-26** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-09-26** 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/51e52ef7-f014-42f5-bc2c-233615614a21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).