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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNLAWFUL POSSESSION, DISTRIBUTION, DELIVERY, OR SALE OF DRUG MASKING PRODUCTS."
description: "This Act creates the crimes of unlawful possession of a drug masking product, punishable as a class A misdemeanor, and unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of a drug masking product, punishable as a class E felony. Drug masking products are designed to be added to human urine or human hair to defraud alcohol or drug urine screening tests."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Delaware SB 137 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce C. Ennis", "John L. Mitchell", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-05"
last_action: "2019-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbd8dcfb-5c5a-45e7-ab0c-ed8535a5e7c0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47602"
source_hash: "66eb8dc4c89a6d108d590ea214bc023f615ccecfe4297efef5afe1ba4b6b91c4"
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 137 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNLAWFUL POSSESSION, DISTRIBUTION, DELIVERY, OR SALE OF DRUG MASKING PRODUCTS.
This Act creates the crimes of unlawful possession of a drug masking product, punishable as a class A misdemeanor, and unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of a drug masking product, punishable as a class E felony. Drug masking products are designed to be added to human urine or human hair to defraud alcohol or drug urine screening tests.
## 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=47602&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB137)
2. **SA 1 to SB 137** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47775&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **170** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bruce C. Ennis — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-06-05** Introduced and Assigned to Judicial Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Amendment SA 1 to SB 137 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 2 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-21** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-23** 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/fbd8dcfb-5c5a-45e7-ab0c-ed8535a5e7c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).