republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-59.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A MULTISTATE NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT.	This Act replaces the current multistate nurse licensure compact with an enhanced version. The enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact allows for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to have one multistate license, with the privilege to practice in their home state and other compact states. Under the enhanced version, all nurses practicing under a multistate license must meet a minimum set of licensure requirements, including a fingerprint federal criminal background check. Nurses who fail to meet these requirements will not be eligible for a multistate license, and multistate privileges will be removed from nurses when disciplinary actions are taken against a home state multistate license. If Delaware fails to enact the enhanced nurse multistate licensure compact, Delaware nurses with current multistate licenses will no longer be permitted to practice in states that have enacted the enhanced version. Currently, 13 states have adopted this enhanced Compact and legislation to adopt it is pending in 15 other states.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 59	Delaware SB 59 (149)	bill		enacted	John Walsh Margaret Rose Henry Stephanie T. Bolden	1	9	2	2017-04-05	2017-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7507cf84-941f-4c7e-b55d-5605614dec90	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25612	320f717af79fd18c89d746499fada2c0e4bc7ada2756f5814c330e4f3f5a9ab7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 59 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A MULTISTATE NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT.

This Act replaces the current multistate nurse licensure compact with an enhanced version. The enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact allows for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to have one multistate license, with the privilege to practice in their home state and other compact states. Under the enhanced version, all nurses practicing under a multistate license must meet a minimum set of licensure requirements, including a fingerprint federal criminal background check. Nurses who fail to meet these requirements will not be eligible for a multistate license, and multistate privileges will be removed from nurses when disciplinary actions are taken against a home state multistate license. If Delaware fails to enact the enhanced nurse multistate licensure compact, Delaware nurses with current multistate licenses will no longer be permitted to practice in states that have enacted the enhanced version. Currently, 13 states have adopted this enhanced Compact and legislation to adopt it is pending in 15 other states.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John Walsh — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryon H. Short — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-05 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-09 Amendment SA 1 to SB 59 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-17 Amendment SA 1 to SB 59 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-05-17 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-05-18 Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-28 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2017-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7507cf84-941f-4c7e-b55d-5605614dec90. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).