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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS AND THE INTERSTATE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 247"
citation: "Delaware SB 247 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Heffernan", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-16"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2d22fc8-10d6-49a8-96b2-14d2e9a543b0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79236"
source_hash: "ca974a7703372c413bb215f84a803f29aef8c93823afad3d5277f146ac09314d"
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 247 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS AND THE INTERSTATE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT.
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.
## 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=79236&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB247)
2. **SA 1 to SB 247** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=89278&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-03-16** Introduced and Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** Amendment SA 1 to SB 247 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 3 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-12** Amendment SA 1 to SB 247 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-04-13** Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **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`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2022-08-04** 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/e2d22fc8-10d6-49a8-96b2-14d2e9a543b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).