republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-201.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TELEMEDICINE.	This Act clarifies that after a physician-patient relationship has been properly established in accordance with this section, subsequent communications and treatment may be conducted as the doctor and patient deem appropriate. As with all practice of medicine, such subsequent interactions must still meet the standard of care for the given field of medicine.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 201	Delaware HB 201 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryon H. Short Harris B. McDowell	1	7	2	2017-06-01	2017-07-12	openstates	ocd-bill/ef80673f-71ad-4672-a2bd-eb5adccc91f8	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25860	e9cd6e5c75ad5277897fe2f76317d4f0f927ae3e34f3f2750aa367aa4e8ebefa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 201 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TELEMEDICINE.

This Act clarifies that after a physician-patient relationship has been properly established in accordance with this section, subsequent communications and treatment may be conducted as the doctor and patient deem appropriate. As with all practice of medicine, such subsequent interactions must still meet the standard of care for the given field of medicine.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
• Harris B. McDowell — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• F. Gary Simpson — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
• William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-01 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 9 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-22 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2017-06-23 Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-07-02 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef80673f-71ad-4672-a2bd-eb5adccc91f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).