republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-277.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE.	This Act increases opportunities for federally qualified health centers (“FQHC”) and government-operated dental clinics to serve the indigent and other underserved communities with dental care and improves flexibility with updated provisional licensing processes for FQHC and government-operated dental clinic applicants.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 277	Delaware SB 277 (151)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown Melissa Minor-Brown Sarah McBride	1	7	2	2022-04-28	2022-08-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d1a0f32f-aca4-4a64-926e-66de722f483c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109412	91daccc3d22137afc63ba21182304988adce42df6944d67a7a6e545e09bb897b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 277 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE.

This Act increases opportunities for federally qualified health centers (“FQHC”) and government-operated dental clinics to serve the indigent and other underserved communities with dental care and improves flexibility with updated provisional licensing processes for FQHC and government-operated dental clinic applicants.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — 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)
• Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
• Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
• Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-04-28 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-05-13 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-08-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1a0f32f-aca4-4a64-926e-66de722f483c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).