republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-44.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.	This Bill clarifies that every prescriber holding a controlled substance registration must be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program. Further, prescribers who receive a CSR (controlled substances registration) for the first time must register with the Prescription Monitoring Program within 90 days.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 44	Delaware SB 44 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David Bentz	1	9	2	2017-03-30	2017-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/667f29e9-2c99-45ad-aa47-dac9dea485a7	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25566	fe4c37e5947ccf7cff2f21e09b68925ee182d5068eba1d0bdbfd5d85b3437f0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 44 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.

This Bill clarifies that every prescriber holding a controlled substance registration must be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program. Further, prescribers who receive a CSR (controlled substances registration) for the first time must register with the Prescription Monitoring Program within 90 days.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-30 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
• 2017-04-26 Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-26 Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-04-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2017-04-27 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2017-07-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/667f29e9-2c99-45ad-aa47-dac9dea485a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).