republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-163.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMS COMPANY VOLUNTEERS.	Individuals who volunteer their services through stand-alone EMS companies have been a valuable part of public safety to the citizens of the State of Delaware. To try to bolster the ranks of these volunteers, this bill exempts anyone applying for membership of a volunteer EMS company from paying the cost of a background check done by the State of Delaware Bureau of Identification.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 163	Delaware HB 163 (150)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis William J. Carson	2	12	2	2019-05-30	2019-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e4849252-98aa-4ee0-b7ad-2a3df6fc956a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47534	d08a989d0beae4143db015d74441d12c16b07b8ce025612ac492e10953b90811	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 163 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMS COMPANY VOLUNTEERS.

Individuals who volunteer their services through stand-alone EMS companies have been a valuable part of public safety to the citizens of the State of Delaware. To try to bolster the ranks of these volunteers, this bill exempts anyone applying for membership of a volunteer EMS company from paying the cost of a background check done by the State of Delaware Bureau of Identification.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 2 to HB 163 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-30 Introduced and Assigned to Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-05 Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-12 Amendment HA 2 to HB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-18 Amendment HA 1 to HB 163 - Stricken in House
• 2019-06-18 Amendment HA 2 to HB 163 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-18 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-18 Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-30 Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2019-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2019-07-23 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4849252-98aa-4ee0-b7ad-2a3df6fc956a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).