republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-218.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE LIVING DONOR PROTECTION ACT.	This Act, known as the Living Donor Protection Act, prohibits discrimination based on an individual’s status as a living organ or tissue donor in the offering, issuance, cancellation, coverage, price, or other condition of an insurance policy, including a life, health, disability, or long-term care insurance policy.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 218	Delaware SB 218 (151)	bill		enacted	Ernesto B. Lopez Peter C. Schwartzkopf Sherry Dorsey Walker Stephen Smyk	2	9	2	2022-01-26	2022-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c73ef6ad-6d68-45f8-84c9-001e7d30ab43	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79129	84caa45dcda373f57b91c6d1f97ab4a1e444d30bf96c2cdea9be9cb626fa1829	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 218 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE LIVING DONOR PROTECTION ACT.

This Act, known as the Living Donor Protection Act, prohibits discrimination based on an individual’s status as a living organ or tissue donor in the offering, issuance, cancellation, coverage, price, or other condition of an insurance policy, including a life, health, disability, or long-term care insurance policy.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 218 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Stephen Smyk — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Darius J. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
• William Bush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-26 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-08 Amendment SA 1 to SB 218 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-03-09 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-15 Amendment SA 1 to SB 218 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2022-03-15 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-03-16 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 13 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-24 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-04-28 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c73ef6ad-6d68-45f8-84c9-001e7d30ab43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).