republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-222.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION.	Currently, blood lead level screening and testing rates are well below what the Division of Public Health would expect them to be based on the risk factors that determine when screening or testing is necessary.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 222	Delaware HB 222 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Larry Lambert Nicole Poore Sarah McBride Sean Matthews Stephanie L. Hansen	2	10	2	2021-06-03	2021-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/6c8761d1-2430-4c0c-b743-381ea7d048b4	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78803	38d731e230f4b8a9f50a293f1bda5d7ad0f5529e11c5343e27d8b9e22553ab92	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 222 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION.

Currently, blood lead level screening and testing rates are well below what the Division of Public Health would expect them to be based on the risk factors that determine when screening or testing is necessary.

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 222 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 39–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Larry Lambert — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 6 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-11 Amendment HA 1 to HB 222 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-17 Amendment HA 1 to HB 222 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2021-06-17 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-22 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c8761d1-2430-4c0c-b743-381ea7d048b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).