republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-77.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY-BASED NALOXONE ACCESS PROGRAM.	This Act clarifies that a lay individual who administers naloxone under the Community-Based Naloxone Access Program is protected from civil liability for rendering emergency care under § 6801 of Title 16, the general Good Samaritan law.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 77	Delaware SB 77 (151)	bill		enacted	David Bentz Stephanie L. Hansen	1	8	2	2021-03-04	2021-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/ff0edca4-ea04-460b-928b-4c67ae5c5f89	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48407	3d69f4cd5d1cef73d093037c498f73268e6f6d794cb32eed264df33296c596cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 77 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY-BASED NALOXONE ACCESS PROGRAM.

This Act clarifies that a lay individual who administers naloxone under the Community-Based Naloxone Access Program is protected from civil liability for rendering emergency care under § 6801 of Title 16, the general Good Samaritan law.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• 3/5 — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-04 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-04-01 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-23 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-04-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-06-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff0edca4-ea04-460b-928b-4c67ae5c5f89. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).