republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-82.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY PROFESSIONALS.	Sections 1-4 clarify the type of supervised experience applicants are required to obtain in order to be qualified for licensure and eliminates the requirement that reciprocal applicants be certified by a national organization prior to being qualified for licensure. Additionally, section 2 eliminates a pending criminal charge as a basis to deny licensure.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 82	Delaware HB 82 (149)	bill		enacted	Charles Potter Jr. David B. McBride Helene M. Keeley John L. Mitchell Michael Mulrooney Peter C. Schwartzkopf	1	9	2	2017-03-16	2017-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/bdaf8866-482d-4822-9250-f8e74fb1674c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25488	f7690d2459b9dc42ffb161c5b360c013838d21a660ed97aa61b568497c39846f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 82 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY PROFESSIONALS.

Sections 1-4 clarify the type of supervised experience applicants are required to obtain in order to be qualified for licensure and eliminates the requirement that reciprocal applicants be certified by a national organization prior to being qualified for licensure. Additionally, section 2 eliminates a pending criminal charge as a basis to deny licensure.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 18–2 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
• John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Michael Mulrooney — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-16 Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-03-22 Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-03-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 82 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-23 Amendment HA 1 to HB 82 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-23 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-03-28 Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-04-05 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-02 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bdaf8866-482d-4822-9250-f8e74fb1674c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).