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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES."
description: "This Act is a result of the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services Task Force (\"the Task Force\"), which was created under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 62 and extended by House Bill No. 345, both of the 150th General Assembly. This Act fulfills 2 of the Task Force's many recommendations, by requiring that the chair or vice chair of the Advisory Council to the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services be an individual with a developmental disability, and amending the Advisory Council membership to include the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 162"
citation: "Delaware SB 162 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kendra Johnson", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-06-03"
last_action: "2021-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd82e917-44ec-4846-ab97-fda5c47460fa"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78794"
source_hash: "90b6fd0a5a85adfa2bd1ff2ab1fef2d30104d3841019c744cacfc51145f193c2"
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 SB 162 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES.
This Act is a result of the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services Task Force ("the Task Force"), which was created under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 62 and extended by House Bill No. 345, both of the 150th General Assembly. This Act fulfills 2 of the Task Force's many recommendations, by requiring that the chair or vice chair of the Advisory Council to the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services be an individual with a developmental disability, and amending the Advisory Council membership to include the following:
## 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=78794&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB162)
2. **SA 1 to SB 162** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=78826&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-03** Introduced and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-04** Amendment SA 1 to SB 162 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-09** Amendment SA 1 to SB 162 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-06-10** Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-18** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-06-23** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2021-07-30** 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/cd82e917-44ec-4846-ab97-fda5c47460fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).