---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS."
description: "This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed in a multiyear collaborative and non-partisan process to modernize and expand on the 1993 version of the act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 309"
citation: "Delaware SB 309 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-16"
last_action: "2024-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141421"
source_hash: "248f4bd84d19336ee5cd0e830f1cee7cafe688e34c11c7a7f6a1b9e0269be1f5"
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 309 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS.

This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed in a multiyear collaborative and non-partisan process to modernize and expand on the 1993 version of the act.

## 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=141421&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB309)
2. **SA 1 to SB 309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141594&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **19–2** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `passage`
- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2024-09-30** 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/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).