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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 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NALOXONE AND OTHER OPIOID ANTAGONISTS."
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description: "An opioid antagonist is a medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency reversal of a known or suspected opioid overdose. Currently, naloxone is the only FDA-approved opioid antagonist, however, the FDA is expected to approve at least 1 new, more powerful opioid antagonist in 2022."
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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 292"
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citation: "Delaware SB 292 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Darius J. Brown", "David Bentz", "Sarah McBride", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
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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: "2022-05-09"
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last_action: "2022-11-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1842e8a7-a4f6-4e58-be25-84e3f4d0a461"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109462"
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source_hash: "4ea1d83e540f0c028062d192b39c223ff9cb74cba67cc3b9fb69e2eb9760525d"
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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 292 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NALOXONE AND OTHER OPIOID ANTAGONISTS.
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An opioid antagonist is a medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency reversal of a known or suspected opioid overdose. Currently, naloxone is the only FDA-approved opioid antagonist, however, the FDA is expected to approve at least 1 new, more powerful opioid antagonist in 2022.
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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=109462&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB292)
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2. **SA 1 to SB 292** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109521&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **18–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
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- David Bentz — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
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- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
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- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-05-09** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-05-16** Amendment SA 1 to SB 292 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-05-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 292 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-05-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-05-18** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-11-02** 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/1842e8a7-a4f6-4e58-be25-84e3f4d0a461`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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