republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-369.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FALSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RECORDS.	This Bill expands the offense of falsifying business records by including the act of altering or modifying and creating false medical records. Currently, no specific statute exists to prevent a person from falsely creating, altering, or modifying a medical record. Expanding the offense of falsifying business records to include medical records will be a useful tool for combating healthcare provider fraud, protecting patients, and assisting patients in ensuring the integrity of their medical records.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 369	Delaware HB 369 (149)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski John Walsh	1	9	2	2018-04-12	2018-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/1f7b2221-aa45-45b9-b421-88eb22cd9977	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26485	08763a5b66a9025dd6222446b5db86784ff4605637d423517cdb45910b9597bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 369 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE FALSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RECORDS.

This Bill expands the offense of falsifying business records by including the act of altering or modifying and creating false medical records. Currently, no specific statute exists to prevent a person from falsely creating, altering, or modifying a medical record. Expanding the offense of falsifying business records to include medical records will be a useful tool for combating healthcare provider fraud, protecting patients, and assisting patients in ensuring the integrity of their medical records.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John Walsh — primary (person)
• Brian J. Bushweller — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-12 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 369 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-26 Amendment HA 1 to HB 369 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-04-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-04-29 Assigned to Judicial & Community Affairs Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f7b2221-aa45-45b9-b421-88eb22cd9977. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).