---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10, 11, 18, 24, AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTHCARE SERVICES."
description: "The purpose of this Act is to protect medical providers in the State from out-of-state lawsuits and investigations that threaten the practice of medicine in the State. To that end this Act does the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 205"
citation: "Delaware HB 205 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Josue O Ortega", "Mara Gorman", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-05"
last_action: "2025-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4ffeb5b-3043-467a-a8c1-b8d85fdcbd06"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142421"
source_hash: "881c2bc75bdf8159a7340a217c27a8cd89ea3c617150a8d3e9cc57c3bcc43d59"
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 HB 205 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10, 11, 18, 24, AND 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTHCARE SERVICES.

The purpose of this Act is to protect medical providers in the State from out-of-state lawsuits and investigations that threaten the practice of medicine in the State. To that end this Act does the following:

## Version chain

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

1. **HA 1 to HB 205** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142475&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
2. **HA 2 to HB 205** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142550&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **29–11** (pass) · lower
- SM — **15–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Amendment HA 1 to HB 205 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Amendment HA 2 to HB 205 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-06-17** Amendment HA 1 to HB 205 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Amendment HA 2 to HB 205 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 11 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-17** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO `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/f4ffeb5b-3043-467a-a8c1-b8d85fdcbd06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).