republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-206.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND VOLUNTEERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES.	This bill requires criminal background checks for any current or prospective employee, contractor, and volunteer of the Division of Health and Social Services (DHSS) who visits children in their homes and in the community and has regular, direct access to children or adolescents under the age of 18. The background check includes fingerprinting for Delaware and national background checks as well as a check of the Child Protection Registry. An individual who has a disqualifying criminal conviction or is on the Child Protection Registry at Level III or IV may not be an employee, contractor, or volunteer in any capacity that involves visiting children in their homes or the community or having regular, direct access to children. DHSS, if it chooses, may use its Background Check Center, which processes background checks for individuals working in home-care and long-term care facilities.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 206	Delaware HB 206 (151)	bill		enacted	Kimberly Williams Nicole Poore	2	9	2	2022-05-03	2022-10-21	openstates	ocd-bill/6a3b627f-d629-4922-a3e3-5ce2cfe50ab3	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109427	7de89496070496d009ffc27386fec8661f94a579c1439d0d2334026239a6567c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 206 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND VOLUNTEERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES.

This bill requires criminal background checks for any current or prospective employee, contractor, and volunteer of the Division of Health and Social Services (DHSS) who visits children in their homes and in the community and has regular, direct access to children or adolescents under the age of 18. The background check includes fingerprinting for Delaware and national background checks as well as a check of the Child Protection Registry. An individual who has a disqualifying criminal conviction or is on the Child Protection Registry at Level III or IV may not be an employee, contractor, or volunteer in any capacity that involves visiting children in their homes or the community or having regular, direct access to children. DHSS, if it chooses, may use its Background Check Center, which processes background checks for individuals working in home-care and long-term care facilities.

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 HS 1 for HB 206 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-05-03 Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 206, and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-02 Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-09 Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-09 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-06-09 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-10-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a3b627f-d629-4922-a3e3-5ce2cfe50ab3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).