republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/hb-7.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MASSAGE AND BODYWORK.	This Bill modifies the impact of criminal history on an applicant’s eligibility for licensure and thereby removes certain barriers to employment. It gives the Board the discretion to grant a waiver of a felony conviction for a crime committed against a person where more than 3 years have elapsed since the date of conviction, and for all other felonies, more than 2 years have elapsed since the date of conviction. The Board will be precluded from considering a conviction where more than 10 years have elapsed since the date of conviction, if there have been no other criminal convictions in the intervening time. The statute already prohibits licensure to anyone that has a felony sexual offense conviction.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	HB 7	Delaware HB 7 (150)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski John "Jack" Walsh Melissa Minor-Brown Valerie Longhurst	2	8	2	2019-05-15	2019-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/c7e41786-3058-40a0-b5d9-3fb02a4aa9df	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47495	12d8ead8301af0c4448ccb34e28f2f110a0709f4d2af34c581efff5eeba6b419	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 7 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MASSAGE AND BODYWORK.

This Bill modifies the impact of criminal history on an applicant’s eligibility for licensure and thereby removes certain barriers to employment. It gives the Board the discretion to grant a waiver of a felony conviction for a crime committed against a person where more than 3 years have elapsed since the date of conviction, and for all other felonies, more than 2 years have elapsed since the date of conviction. The Board will be precluded from considering a conviction where more than 10 years have elapsed since the date of conviction, if there have been no other criminal convictions in the intervening time. The statute already prohibits licensure to anyone that has a felony sexual offense conviction.

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 7 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 19–1 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-05-15 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 7 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-25 Amendment HA 1 to HB 7 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2019-06-25 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2019-06-30 Suspension of Rules in Senate
• 2019-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-08-12 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7e41786-3058-40a0-b5d9-3fb02a4aa9df. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).