republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-219.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES.	The 146th General Assembly gave the Department of Health and Social Services the authority to promulgate regulations and require accreditation for facilities that perform invasive medical procedures. The current terminology and definition of an “invasive medical procedure” has been frequently misinterpreted and caused a great deal of confusion in the medical community. This Act revises the current language to be consistent with terminology used by accreditation organizations and other states, replacing the term “invasive medical procedure” with the term “office-based surgery”. In addition, this Act clarifies the definition to ensure that all facilities that perform such procedures do so in a safe and sanitary environment. Finally, this Act adds a requirement that the approved accreditation organizations shall report, at a minimum, findings of surveys and complaint and incident investigations, and data for all office-based surgical facilities to the Department.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 219	Delaware HB 219 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David Bentz	1	10	2	2017-06-08	2018-09-04	openstates	ocd-bill/5ea6e96a-a3a7-4bee-9fdb-768df4bf706f	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25928	6b94ff8883a5547aa27daadc3b130f6607bae5307906d4edb272d0dd3145bf82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 219 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES.

The 146th General Assembly gave the Department of Health and Social Services the authority to promulgate regulations and require accreditation for facilities that perform invasive medical procedures. The current terminology and definition of an “invasive medical procedure” has been frequently misinterpreted and caused a great deal of confusion in the medical community. This Act revises the current language to be consistent with terminology used by accreditation organizations and other states, replacing the term “invasive medical procedure” with the term “office-based surgery”. In addition, this Act clarifies the definition to ensure that all facilities that perform such procedures do so in a safe and sanitary environment. Finally, this Act adds a requirement that the approved accreditation organizations shall report, at a minimum, findings of surveys and complaint and incident investigations, and data for all office-based surgical facilities to the Department.

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 — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David Bentz — primary (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-08 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-16 Amendment HA 1 to HB 219 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-05-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 219 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-05-08 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2018-05-10 Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-28 Rules Suspended in Senate
• 2018-06-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-09-04 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ea6e96a-a3a7-4bee-9fdb-768df4bf706f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).