republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-173.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRISONS AND PRISONERS.	This bill makes changes to the Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee by adding the chairpersons of the House and Senate Correction committees as ex-officio non-voting members. This bill also places this Committee within the Criminal Justice Council so the Committee has the administrative support it needs to effectuate its purpose. This bill also tasks the Committee with advising not only the Commissioner of the Department of Correction but also the Governor and the General Assembly on matters concerning inmate health-care services in our State’s correctional institutions. This bill makes clear that certain State agencies and contractors providing medical services to inmates must provide information requested by the Committee. This Committee is not a public body, and the bill emphasizes that Committee members must abide by federal and state laws regarding the privacy of protected health information and provides penalties for violations of the privacy of such information.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 173	Delaware HB 173 (150)	bill		enacted	Bruce C. Ennis David B. McBride Melissa Minor-Brown Peter C. Schwartzkopf	2	11	2	2019-06-03	2019-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6b889c0b-aa16-4d75-833a-0121a25b0a84	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47569	fb3c8b2dd38eb01a25f123ff336bbc8ee7dcac7d174f36fd0ace0df51f96fed0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 173 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PRISONS AND PRISONERS.

This bill makes changes to the Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee by adding the chairpersons of the House and Senate Correction committees as ex-officio non-voting members. This bill also places this Committee within the Criminal Justice Council so the Committee has the administrative support it needs to effectuate its purpose. This bill also tasks the Committee with advising not only the Commissioner of the Department of Correction but also the Governor and the General Assembly on matters concerning inmate health-care services in our State’s correctional institutions. This bill makes clear that certain State agencies and contractors providing medical services to inmates must provide information requested by the Committee. This Committee is not a public body, and the bill emphasizes that Committee members must abide by federal and state laws regarding the privacy of protected health information and provides penalties for violations of the privacy of such information.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 173 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
• David B. McBride — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-06 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-10 Amendment HA 1 to HB 173 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-11 Amendment HA 1 to HB 173 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-11 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-11 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-13 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-26 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b889c0b-aa16-4d75-833a-0121a25b0a84. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).