---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STERILE NEEDLE AND SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM."
description: "This Act directs the State’s current needle exchange program to take a needs-based approach."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "Delaware SB 52 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-01"
last_action: "2023-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4891c7d-2ed6-4316-a1c8-80a5c834e6f7"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130023"
source_hash: "eb85e176d3b1988b917b050ff5bb7075cdb02715058844a61df5a84edd1a795e"
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 52 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STERILE NEEDLE AND SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM.

This Act directs the State’s current needle exchange program to take a needs-based approach.

## 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=130023&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB52)

## Votes

- SM — **15–5** (pass) · upper
- SM — **24–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-01** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06** Amendment SA 1 to SB 52 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-04-06** Amendment SA 2 to SB 52 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-04-06** Amendment SA 1 to SB 52 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 5 YES 15 NO 1 ABSENT `amendment-failure`
- **2023-04-06** Amendment SA 2 to SB 52 - Stricken in Senate
- **2023-04-06** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Not Worked in Committee
- **2023-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2023-05-04** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 17 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-08-09** 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/f4891c7d-2ed6-4316-a1c8-80a5c834e6f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).