---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK."
description: "This Act makes changes to Chapter 103 of Title 16, pertaining to the Delaware Health Information Network (“DHIN”)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 138"
citation: "Delaware SB 138 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndie Romer", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-13"
last_action: "2025-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2eb1e8e4-24b9-472e-b47a-82ced0870aba"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142263"
source_hash: "cb589401d24e213d12978579c53ec8b0efebb6027e94b4ef492ed0270eec63e0"
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 138 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK.

This Act makes changes to Chapter 103 of Title 16, pertaining to the Delaware Health Information Network (“DHIN”).

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SA 1 to SB 138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142348&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-13** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Amendment SA 1 to SB 138 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-10** Amendment SA 1 to SB 138 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-06-11** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-07-21** 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/2eb1e8e4-24b9-472e-b47a-82ced0870aba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).