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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VETERINARY TECHNICIANS."
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description: "This bill allows licensed veterinary technicians, as well as licensed veterinarians, to administer rabies vaccinations to dogs, cats, and ferrets."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "SB 228"
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citation: "Delaware SB 228 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kimberly Williams"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-03-03"
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last_action: "2022-10-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38d059b7-711d-4ca9-9c57-484a3d5deafe"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79153"
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source_hash: "4779cf2b4d91be9d302ed5fd39e171b8cb114b2bebf21dbc9f2f83fa7a67bcf9"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 228 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VETERINARY TECHNICIANS.
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This bill allows licensed veterinary technicians, as well as licensed veterinarians, to administer rabies vaccinations to dogs, cats, and ferrets.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=79153&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB228)
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2. **SA 1 to SB 228** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=99339&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-03-03** Introduced and Assigned to Agriculture Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 228 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
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- **2022-05-10** Amendment SA 1 to SB 228 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-05-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2022-05-11** Assigned to Agriculture Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-10-03** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38d059b7-711d-4ca9-9c57-484a3d5deafe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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