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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF NURSING."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "Delaware SB 63 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Walsh", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-27"
last_action: "2017-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a381e6a2-3f4b-4923-aa63-5734285db07a"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25653"
source_hash: "749814492fe77b50149a5ced540137c298227428f38f2af56b8a290298463acf"
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 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25653&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB63)
## Votes
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
- SM — **181** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a381e6a2-3f4b-4923-aa63-5734285db07a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).