republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-316.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 13 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATING COUNCIL.	This bill does all of the following relating to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. First, it adds the Chief Magistrate of the Justice of the Peace Court to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. Second, it removes the limitations on the use of voting by proxy by members of the Council. These limitations are unnecessary because § 2104(f) provides that the Council promulgate rules of procedure governing its operations so long as they are in accordance with Chapters 100 and 101 of Title 29. Thus, the Council, not the statute, should determine the rules necessary to govern its own operations. Finally, the bill adds the Fatal Incident Review Team of the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council to the list of entities that are entitled to receive protected health information without informed consent. The protected health information at issue is essential for the Fatal Incident Review Team to review. Due to federal law, certain providers are prohibited from providing such information even with a subpoena. However, these providers can provide the protected health information if the statute specifically permits such protected health information to be disclosed without informed consent.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 316	Delaware HB 316 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Ernesto B. Lopez Krista Griffith Michael F. Smith Nicole Poore Sherry Dorsey Walker	1	7	2	2022-03-03	2022-06-14	openstates	ocd-bill/401cdf46-0571-45c6-84ec-81a6607f6c84	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79171	1e7dbb2d88b5cb5b90464a549ce8d556539ecc7888e7898fa1accaeaa225b684	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 316 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 13 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATING COUNCIL.

This bill does all of the following relating to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. First, it adds the Chief Magistrate of the Justice of the Peace Court to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. Second, it removes the limitations on the use of voting by proxy by members of the Council. These limitations are unnecessary because § 2104(f) provides that the Council promulgate rules of procedure governing its operations so long as they are in accordance with Chapters 100 and 101 of Title 29. Thus, the Council, not the statute, should determine the rules necessary to govern its own operations. Finally, the bill adds the Fatal Incident Review Team of the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council to the list of entities that are entitled to receive protected health information without informed consent. The protected health information at issue is essential for the Fatal Incident Review Team to review. Due to federal law, certain providers are prohibited from providing such information even with a subpoena. However, these providers can provide the protected health information if the statute specifically permits such protected health information to be disclosed without informed consent.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-03 Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-15 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-03-15 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-14 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-06-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/401cdf46-0571-45c6-84ec-81a6607f6c84. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).