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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16, TITLE 24, TITLE 25, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF LONG TERM CARE RESIDENTS PROTECTION."
description: "House Bill No. 208 of the 149th General Assembly changes the name of the Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection to the Division of Health Care Quality. This Act updates the name of the Division where it appears in the Delaware Code and takes effect upon the enactment of House Bill No. 208. House Bill No. 195 revises Chapter 11 of Title 16, removing references to a specific Division in 2 sections. This Act clarifies that the name change in those sections sunset upon the enactment of House Bill No. 195."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 225"
citation: "Delaware HB 225 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-06-13"
last_action: "2018-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf95a669-986e-4e3d-b11e-b1783602b864"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25937"
source_hash: "217bd4c65c794ac5308a65f85270ec74bc5be8b2fa5eca76e1d4db050fa6bf83"
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 225 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16, TITLE 24, TITLE 25, AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF LONG TERM CARE RESIDENTS PROTECTION.
House Bill No. 208 of the 149th General Assembly changes the name of the Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection to the Division of Health Care Quality. This Act updates the name of the Division where it appears in the Delaware Code and takes effect upon the enactment of House Bill No. 208. House Bill No. 195 revises Chapter 11 of Title 16, removing references to a specific Division in 2 sections. This Act clarifies that the name change in those sections sunset upon the enactment of House Bill No. 195.
## 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=25937&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB225)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-06-13** 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`
- **2017-06-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 225 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-28** Amendment HA 1 to HB 225 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2017-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `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** Amendment SA 1 to HB 225 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2018-01-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2018-01-25** Passed By House. Votes: 40 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/bf95a669-986e-4e3d-b11e-b1783602b864`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).