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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY-BASED NALOXONE ACCESS PROGRAM."
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description: "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."
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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 77"
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citation: "Delaware SB 77 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David Bentz", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2021-03-04"
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last_action: "2021-06-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff0edca4-ea04-460b-928b-4c67ae5c5f89"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48407"
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source_hash: "3d69f4cd5d1cef73d093037c498f73268e6f6d794cb32eed264df33296c596cb"
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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 77 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY-BASED NALOXONE ACCESS PROGRAM.
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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.
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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=48407&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB77)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3/5 — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David Bentz — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-03-04** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-24** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-03-31** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2021-04-01** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-04-23** Suspension of Rules in House
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- **2021-04-29** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2021-06-03** 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/ff0edca4-ea04-460b-928b-4c67ae5c5f89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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