republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-210.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE PROGRAM.	This Act responds to the promulgation of final federal regulations, 85 FR 74010, for state-sponsored savings programs under section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code, the Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 (“ABLE”), through which contributions may be made to the account of an eligible individual with a disability to meet qualified disability expenses. The federal regulations, among other things, resolve questions related to who may establish and exercise signature authority over an ABLE account. The final regulations clarify that an eligible individual with legal capacity may delegate signature authority to any other person and provide a hierarchy of persons who may establish or exercise signature authority over an ABLE account for an individual without legal capacity. The final regulations also clarify that expenses incurred at a time when a designated beneficiary is neither disabled nor blind are not qualified disability expenses. The Act makes changes to Chapter 96A of Title 16 of the Delaware Code for the sole purpose of conforming the Code to these aspects of the final regulations.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 210	Delaware SB 210 (151)	bill		enacted	Debra Heffernan Krista Griffith Trey Paradee	1	7	2	2022-01-06	2022-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/94d891e3-a4b9-464a-8110-d542d74ac461	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79063	50bbd69837dc4a54c32765f30f4a02c04ff171b627a5dcba9aecf20dbcf1ae9d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 210 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE PROGRAM.

This Act responds to the promulgation of final federal regulations, 85 FR 74010, for state-sponsored savings programs under section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code, the Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 (“ABLE”), through which contributions may be made to the account of an eligible individual with a disability to meet qualified disability expenses. The federal regulations, among other things, resolve questions related to who may establish and exercise signature authority over an ABLE account. The final regulations clarify that an eligible individual with legal capacity may delegate signature authority to any other person and provide a hierarchy of persons who may establish or exercise signature authority over an ABLE account for an individual without legal capacity. The final regulations also clarify that expenses incurred at a time when a designated beneficiary is neither disabled nor blind are not qualified disability expenses. The Act makes changes to Chapter 96A of Title 16 of the Delaware Code for the sole purpose of conforming the Code to these aspects of the final regulations.

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
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Krista Griffith — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)
• William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-06 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-19 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-01-20 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-24 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-04-28 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94d891e3-a4b9-464a-8110-d542d74ac461. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).