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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 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS AND THE INTERSTATE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT."
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description: "By this Act, Delaware would join the Interstate Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact (OT Compact). The OT Compact is an interstate compact, or a formal agreement among states, to facilitate the interstate practice of occupational therapy."
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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 247"
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citation: "Delaware SB 247 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
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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: "2022-03-16"
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last_action: "2022-08-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2d22fc8-10d6-49a8-96b2-14d2e9a543b0"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79236"
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source_hash: "ca974a7703372c413bb215f84a803f29aef8c93823afad3d5277f146ac09314d"
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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 247 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS AND THE INTERSTATE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT.
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By this Act, Delaware would join the Interstate Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact (OT Compact). The OT Compact is an interstate compact, or a formal agreement among states, to facilitate the interstate practice of occupational therapy.
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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=79236&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB247)
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2. **SA 1 to SB 247** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=89278&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-03-16** Introduced and Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-24** Amendment SA 1 to SB 247 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 3 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-12** Amendment SA 1 to SB 247 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-04-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-04-13** Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-16** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 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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- **2022-08-04** 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/e2d22fc8-10d6-49a8-96b2-14d2e9a543b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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