republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-311.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS.	The Board of Clinical Social Work Examiners (“Board”) has worked several years to amend Chapter 39, Title 24 of the Delaware Code to update the statute governing social work licensure and practice in this State. The Board’s work has included collaboration with the Division of Professional Regulation, the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee, several state agencies, and other stakeholders. The result of that work is this Act, which modernizes Chapter 39 to include a multi-tiered licensure system similar to those already in place in most other states, reflect current practices and standards, and clarify the law.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 311	Delaware HB 311 (149)	bill		enacted	John Walsh Stephanie T. Bolden	1	9	2	2018-01-25	2018-06-11	openstates	ocd-bill/1427f0f2-0eb5-490a-ac2c-f89cf71b48e4	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26293	10907ef5d5f31e9a17008bcbf6ff8c1993c886e7a3a9cc0ea4771c078bb21705	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 311 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS.

The Board of Clinical Social Work Examiners (“Board”) has worked several years to amend Chapter 39, Title 24 of the Delaware Code to update the statute governing social work licensure and practice in this State. The Board’s work has included collaboration with the Division of Professional Regulation, the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee, several state agencies, and other stakeholders. The result of that work is this Act, which modernizes Chapter 39 to include a multi-tiered licensure system similar to those already in place in most other states, reflect current practices and standards, and clarify the law.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John Walsh — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-25 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-03-20 Amendment HA 1 to HB 311 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-17 Amendment HA 1 to HB 311 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-04-17 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-04-18 Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-05-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2018-06-11 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1427f0f2-0eb5-490a-ac2c-f89cf71b48e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).