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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF LONG TERM CARE RESIDENTS PROTECTION."
description: "This Act renames the Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection to the Division of Health Care Quality and strengthens the Division's ability to protect Delawareans receiving long term, acute, or outpatient health care. The new name better describes the Division which now includes not only long term care, but also acute and outpatient care facilities and agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 208"
citation: "Delaware HB 208 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-01"
last_action: "2018-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd487473-a09d-4ccb-a5bf-0e7f2f7d5853"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25853"
source_hash: "36dcb1054ab05d0f97cfae37411d98c148d6cd2ae7e08f6179c45f8681b9a0f3"
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 208 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF LONG TERM CARE RESIDENTS PROTECTION.
This Act renames the Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection to the Division of Health Care Quality and strengthens the Division's ability to protect Delawareans receiving long term, acute, or outpatient health care. The new name better describes the Division which now includes not only long term care, but also acute and outpatient care facilities and agencies.
## 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=25853&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB208)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-29** Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-02-14** 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/cd487473-a09d-4ccb-a5bf-0e7f2f7d5853`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).