republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-84.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSE, NEGLECT, MISTREATMENT, FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION, OR MEDICATION DIVERSION OF RESIDENTS OR PATIENTS.	This Act elevates medication diversion out of the definition of abuse for the sake of clarity and is not intended to change existing reporting obligations for facilities under Subchapter III of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code (“Subchapter III”). This Act ensures reporting requirements are triggered for facilities and hospitals covered by Subchapter III if medication diversion occurs in the facilities or hospitals. Reporting is essential to the Department of Justice’s ability to prosecute and recommend treatment, when appropriate, for the person committing medication diversion. Finally, this Act makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual, including standardizing the order of words in the phrase “abuse, neglect, mistreatment, financial exploitation, or medication diversion” to ensure consistency.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 84	Delaware SB 84 (151)	bill		enacted	Larry Lambert Laura V. Sturgeon Melissa Minor-Brown Paul S. Baumbach	1	8	2	2021-03-09	2021-06-03	openstates	ocd-bill/a0d3432a-45a8-43b9-82d0-fc965c147a57	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48443	dc5475f013514f411ce3d044735f95c49da2e325ab032b4f8ffd05b1c419d28b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 84 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO ABUSE, NEGLECT, MISTREATMENT, FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION, OR MEDICATION DIVERSION OF RESIDENTS OR PATIENTS.

This Act elevates medication diversion out of the definition of abuse for the sake of clarity and is not intended to change existing reporting obligations for facilities under Subchapter III of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code (“Subchapter III”). This Act ensures reporting requirements are triggered for facilities and hospitals covered by Subchapter III if medication diversion occurs in the facilities or hospitals. Reporting is essential to the Department of Justice’s ability to prosecute and recommend treatment, when appropriate, for the person committing medication diversion. Finally, this Act makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual, including standardizing the order of words in the phrase “abuse, neglect, mistreatment, financial exploitation, or medication diversion” to ensure consistency.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Larry Lambert — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-09 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 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 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
• 2021-04-16 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-04-22 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-06-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0d3432a-45a8-43b9-82d0-fc965c147a57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).