---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE DELAWARE VETERINARIAN MEDICINE EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL."
description: "The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medical Education (“DIVME”) was established in 1975 with a stated purpose of creating opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain veterinary training and strengthening factors that would encourage them to return to practice in Delaware. DIVME’s statute has had only 2 minor updates since 1975, with the last update in 1993."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 251"
citation: "Delaware SB 251 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-25"
last_action: "2024-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6dfa7c53-0023-4c4a-8778-2374953f439b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141128"
source_hash: "61d0ae56e05400b35b9725e88b818b996cc5de684534b0c0864e3abb3f8f188d"
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 251 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE DELAWARE VETERINARIAN MEDICINE EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL.

The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medical Education (“DIVME”) was established in 1975 with a stated purpose of creating opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain veterinary training and strengthening factors that would encourage them to return to practice in Delaware. DIVME’s statute has had only 2 minor updates since 1975, with the last update in 1993.

## 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=141128&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB251)
2. **SA 1 to SB 251** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141245&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-25** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23** Amendment SA 1 to SB 251 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-04-24** Amendment SA 1 to SB 251 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-24** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Assigned to Education Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-26** 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/6dfa7c53-0023-4c4a-8778-2374953f439b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).