republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-24.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.	This Act removes the requirement that a psychiatrist be the physician who signs the written certification in support of an applicant's application for medical marijuana and adds anxiety to the list of debilitating conditions which a person can have to be eligible for medical marijuana. This Act also makes technical corrections to the statute.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 24	Delaware SB 24 (149)	bill		enacted	Helene M. Keeley Margaret Rose Henry Paul S. Baumbach	1	12	3	2017-03-16	2017-07-12	openstates	ocd-bill/9b458a65-fdb4-4212-8f06-2dbc3f0f0005	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25447	f0de332c3e8dcf7498713f7af496451b2d6f713dff3d21fe207a0e4133981279	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 24 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

This Act removes the requirement that a psychiatrist be the physician who signs the written certification in support of an applicant's application for medical marijuana and adds anxiety to the list of debilitating conditions which a person can have to be eligible for medical marijuana. This Act also makes technical corrections to the statute.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 36–1 (pass) · lower
• SM — 9–1 (fail) · upper
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-16 Introduced and Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-05-16 Defeated By Senate. Votes: 9 YES 1 NO 10 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT failure
• 2017-05-18 Reconsidered in Senate
• 2017-05-18 Roll Call Rescinded in Senate
• 2017-05-18 Amendment SA 1 to SB 24 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-18 Amendment SA 1 to SB 24 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-05-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-01 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 NOT VOTING passage
• 2017-07-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b458a65-fdb4-4212-8f06-2dbc3f0f0005. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).