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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS."
description: "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 Boards 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 311"
citation: "Delaware HB 311 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Walsh", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1427f0f2-0eb5-490a-ac2c-f89cf71b48e4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26293"
source_hash: "10907ef5d5f31e9a17008bcbf6ff8c1993c886e7a3a9cc0ea4771c078bb21705"
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 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 Boards 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=26293&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB311)
## Votes
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1427f0f2-0eb5-490a-ac2c-f89cf71b48e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).