republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-63.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF NURSING.	Section 1 of this Act updates the Delaware Code relating to the Board of Nursing (“Board”) by eliminating conflicting definitions of an “advanced practice registered nurse” in the Code, correcting inaccurate cross-references, and eliminating references to the Joint Practice Committee, a now defunct body, and replacing such references with the newly enacted Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Committee.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 63	Delaware SB 63 (149)	bill		enacted	John Walsh Margaret Rose Henry Stephanie T. Bolden	1	9	2	2017-04-27	2017-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/a381e6a2-3f4b-4923-aa63-5734285db07a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25653	749814492fe77b50149a5ced540137c298227428f38f2af56b8a290298463acf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 63 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF NURSING.

Section 1 of this Act updates the Delaware Code relating to the Board of Nursing (“Board”) by eliminating conflicting definitions of an “advanced practice registered nurse” in the Code, correcting inaccurate cross-references, and eliminating references to the Joint Practice Committee, a now defunct body, and replacing such references with the newly enacted Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Committee.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 18–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John Walsh — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Mulrooney — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-27 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-18 Amendment SA 1 to SB 63 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-18 Amendment SA 1 to SB 63 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2017-05-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-01 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
• 2017-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a381e6a2-3f4b-4923-aa63-5734285db07a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).