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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
description: "This Act allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to recommend medical marijuana for adult patients."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 60"
citation: "Delaware SB 60 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B. Lopez", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Michael Ramone", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-12"
last_action: "2021-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/622bd44d-25e8-4f97-a89b-55569e5b1e3e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48375"
source_hash: "eb1ff8a12993d7e7201a146a1835fb501b1fe9e7adaf47d4f47ce1ef749ae493"
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 60 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
This Act allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to recommend medical marijuana for adult patients.
## 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=48375&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB60)
2. **SA 1 to SB 60** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=48485&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- 2/3 — **390** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — 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)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Marie Pinkney — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-12** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 60 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-03-23** Amendment SA 1 to SB 60 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-23** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-07** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2021-05-13** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2021-06-15** 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/622bd44d-25e8-4f97-a89b-55569e5b1e3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).