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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 222"
citation: "Delaware HB 222 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "Larry Lambert", "Nicole Poore", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-06-03"
last_action: "2021-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c8761d1-2430-4c0c-b743-381ea7d048b4"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78803"
source_hash: "38d731e230f4b8a9f50a293f1bda5d7ad0f5529e11c5343e27d8b9e22553ab92"
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 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](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=78803&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB222)
2. **HA 1 to HB 222** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78890&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c8761d1-2430-4c0c-b743-381ea7d048b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).