republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-7.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADULT CORRECTION HEALTHCARE REVIEW COMMITTEE.	This Act makes permanent and temporary changes to the Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee ("ACHRC") which is a committee that serves in an advisory capacity to the Governor, General Assembly and the Commissioner of the Department of Correction on all matters relating to the provision of inmate health care services. The permanent changes include adding to ACHRC a healthcare professional who by virtue of the professional's training, education, and specialization hold expertise in correctional health and allowing either a psychiatrist or forensic psychologist to serve as a member.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 7	Delaware HB 7 (151)	bill		enacted	Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown	3	14	4	2021-03-09	2021-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/f570e9d8-6a75-4f7d-af4a-e424f454f8b0	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48441	f60ad011faced45ea556829152f520ac88759d6b319deb1d3564983d371dff4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 7 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADULT CORRECTION HEALTHCARE REVIEW COMMITTEE.

This Act makes permanent and temporary changes to the Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee ("ACHRC") which is a committee that serves in an advisory capacity to the Governor, General Assembly and the Commissioner of the Department of Correction on all matters relating to the provision of inmate health care services. The permanent changes include adding to ACHRC a healthcare professional who by virtue of the professional's training, education, and specialization hold expertise in correctional health and allowing either a psychiatrist or forensic psychologist to serve as a member.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 7 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to HB 7 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-09 Introduced and Assigned to Corrections Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 6 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-23 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-04-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-04-29 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-03 Amendment SA 1 to HB 7 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-08 Amendment SA 1 to HB 7 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 3 NO 1 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2021-06-08 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-06-15 Amendment HA 1 to HB 7 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2021-06-17 Amendment HA 1 to HB 7 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2021-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-06-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-09-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f570e9d8-6a75-4f7d-af4a-e424f454f8b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).