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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL PRACTICE. This Act updates the mandatory reporting requirements for Delaware physicians with anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. These changes are necessary to ensure that physicians are able to seek treatment without undue stigma or fear of loss of medical licensure. The recommended changes to the statutory reporting requirements are aligned with national best practices recommendations of leading experts including the Joint Commission on Healthcare Accreditation and the Federation of State Medical Boards. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 151 SB 300 Delaware SB 300 (151)
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Bryan Townsend
David Bentz
Krista Griffith
Laura V. Sturgeon
Nicole Poore
Sarah McBride
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Delaware SB 300 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL PRACTICE.

This Act updates the mandatory reporting requirements for Delaware physicians with anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. These changes are necessary to ensure that physicians are able to seek treatment without undue stigma or fear of loss of medical licensure. The recommended changes to the statutory reporting requirements are aligned with national best practices recommendations of leading experts including the Joint Commission on Healthcare Accreditation and the Federation of State Medical Boards.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 200 (pass) · upper
  • SM — 410 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
  • Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
  • David Bentz — primary (person)
  • Krista Griffith — primary (person)
  • Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
  • Nicole Poore — primary (person)
  • Sarah McBride — primary (person)
  • Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
  • Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
  • David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
  • Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
  • John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
  • Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
  • Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
  • Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
  • Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
  • Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-05-19 Introduced and Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-06-02 Re-Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-06-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
  • 2022-06-10 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2022-06-15 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
  • 2022-07-29 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1efcd0c7-ef4e-4b28-bd9e-f13aa4e92ae6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).