---
type: "Bill"
title: "DESIGNATING AUGUST 31, 2022, AS \"INTERNATIONAL OVERDOSE AWARENESS DAY\" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE."
description: "This Senate Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2022, as \"International Overdose Awareness Day\" in the State of Delaware and directs the State flag to be lowered to half-staff at State facilities and encourages local governments, businesses, and Delawareans to do the same."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SJR 6"
citation: "Delaware SJR 6 (151)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7a45433-91cb-451d-beb0-807e83b446d2"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79152"
source_hash: "9dfd4bb51d57ea704a108c97063bf605fdfb704e07853d50183148d6423eeda2"
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 SJR 6 (151) — DESIGNATING AUGUST 31, 2022, AS "INTERNATIONAL OVERDOSE AWARENESS DAY" IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE.

This Senate Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2022, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware and directs the State flag to be lowered to half-staff at State facilities and encourages local governments, businesses, and Delawareans to do the same.

## 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=79152&legislationTypeId=4&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SJR6)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-03** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-09** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-04** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-29** 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/e7a45433-91cb-451d-beb0-807e83b446d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).