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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE. | This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act was previously passed by the 150th General Assembly in Senate Bill 15, and is the same except for the removal of the sunset provision. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 151 | HB 309 | Delaware HB 309 (151) |
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Delaware HB 309 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE.
This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act was previously passed by the 150th General Assembly in Senate Bill 15, and is the same except for the removal of the sunset provision.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
- SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-03-03 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2022-03-16 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-03-17 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
passage - 2022-03-17 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2022-04-06 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
passage - 2022-08-04 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5389d12e-deb4-409c-b95b-f3c7482db670. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).