---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE HEALTH FACILITIES AUTHORITY."
description: "This Act amends Delaware Code provisions which govern the Delaware Health Facilities Authority (DFHA)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 261"
citation: "Delaware SB 261 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-04-11"
last_action: "2024-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a34f3e5-b643-457d-9a50-411782061015"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141167"
source_hash: "88218dc7758cef6543240763a3e4a6eccdda5a31e8e81543dc8b9deb2fe180e1"
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 261 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE HEALTH FACILITIES AUTHORITY.

This Act amends Delaware Code provisions which govern the Delaware Health Facilities Authority (DFHA).

## 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=141167&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB261)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **36–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-11** 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`
- **2024-05-07** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-05-08** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 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/4a34f3e5-b643-457d-9a50-411782061015`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).