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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES."
description: "This Act is a Companion Bill to House Bill No. 21. It aligns the Delaware Board of Nursing statute with the APRN Compact to advance APRN practice through elimination of barriers and improving access to care for Delawareans. The Act removes the requirement for a collaborative agreement for licensure purposes although employers and health care organizations may still require one."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 141"
citation: "Delaware HB 141 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nicole Poore"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-30"
last_action: "2021-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67d2da5f-3857-4464-9c54-527cb0453b39"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=58536"
source_hash: "84a631191ad699a7f459669515f3e45fe2feb5f92b4b578ef531baefe1d00dce"
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 HB 141 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES.
This Act is a Companion Bill to House Bill No. 21. It aligns the Delaware Board of Nursing statute with the APRN Compact to advance APRN practice through elimination of barriers and improving access to care for Delawareans. The Act removes the requirement for a collaborative agreement for licensure purposes although employers and health care organizations may still require one.
## 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=58536&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB141)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **383** (pass) · lower
- SM — **201** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-30** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-14** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-05-20** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 NO `passage`
- **2021-05-20** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2021-08-04** 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/67d2da5f-3857-4464-9c54-527cb0453b39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).