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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 RELATING TO PRACTICE BY TELEHEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE."
description: "This bill permits health-care providers who are licensed in a state other than Delaware to deliver health-care services by telehealth and telemedicine only if a health-care provider-patient relationship has been established in accordance with § 6003 of Title 24."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 334"
citation: "Delaware HB 334 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz", "Debra Heffernan", "Kendra Johnson", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sarah McBride"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-03-15"
last_action: "2022-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97abcbe7-0b76-4282-ab8b-233dcef84782"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79227"
source_hash: "cb71d27d0ecbc0b02a2c5d16e2e663b08290b050180bde45fe965d029f709ad6"
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 334 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 RELATING TO PRACTICE BY TELEHEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE.
This bill permits health-care providers who are licensed in a state other than Delaware to deliver health-care services by telehealth and telemedicine only if a health-care provider-patient relationship has been established in accordance with § 6003 of Title 24.
## 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=79227&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB334)
2. **HA 2 to HB 334** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109557&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
3. **SA 1 to HB 334** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129814&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-03-15** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 334 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-05-19** Amendment HA 2 to HB 334 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-05-19** Amendment HA 1 to HB 334 - Stricken in House
- **2022-05-19** Amendment HA 2 to HB 334 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-05-19** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-05-19** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Amendment SA 1 to HB 334 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-28** Amendment SA 1 to HB 334 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-10-21** 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/97abcbe7-0b76-4282-ab8b-233dcef84782`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).