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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES."
description: "This Act would enhance the ability of the prescription monitoring program to make informed determinations as to prescribers who may be making extraordinary prescriptions of opiates or other controlled substances, and to refer such cases to law enforcement or professional licensing organizations for further review. The Act would also provide a more usable standard for provision of specified information to law enforcement agencies upon a showing of need."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 91"
citation: "Delaware HB 91 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Mulrooney", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-28"
last_action: "2017-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba66bb50-39bc-48d8-9a4b-673123369221"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25536"
source_hash: "1f1de77d600ed960499aab658c660e331b52710e64bb29d0fc8d778b7f39ac10"
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 91 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.
This Act would enhance the ability of the prescription monitoring program to make informed determinations as to prescribers who may be making extraordinary prescriptions of opiates or other controlled substances, and to refer such cases to law enforcement or professional licensing organizations for further review. The Act would also provide a more usable standard for provision of specified information to law enforcement agencies upon a showing of need.
## 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=25536&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB91)
## Votes
- SM — **150** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Michael Mulrooney — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Harvey R. Kenton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
- William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-28** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Amendment HA 1 to HB 91 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-06** Amendment HA 1 to HB 91 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Amendment HA 2 to HB 91 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-06** Amendment HA 2 to HB 91 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-10** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-05-30** 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/ba66bb50-39bc-48d8-9a4b-673123369221`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).