republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-35.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR.	This Act establishes a Behavioral Health Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work behavioral health professionals, such as, school counselors, social workers, licensed clinical social workers, school psychologists, and school nurses.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 35	Delaware HB 35 (151)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski Kimberly Williams Larry Lambert Marie Pinkney Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha Sarah McBride Valerie Longhurst	1	8	2	2020-12-11	2021-02-17	openstates	ocd-bill/18925bd6-b250-403c-8231-512498dd5f16	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48213	c0d5457fc1e43e2d2f72474b34fd522a14152f1032d555ca35bcda40f028ea36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 35 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR.

This Act establishes a Behavioral Health Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work behavioral health professionals, such as, school counselors, social workers, licensed clinical social workers, school psychologists, and school nurses.

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
• 3/5 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
• Larry Lambert — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-11 Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-01-13 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2021-01-26 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-01-27 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-01-27 Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-01-27 Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-01-28 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-02-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18925bd6-b250-403c-8231-512498dd5f16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).