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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 RELATING TO THE MEDICAL PRACTICES ACT."
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description: "This Act requires physicians who are discontinuing business, leaving the State, or terminating a patient-physician relationship for any other reason to notify affected patients at least thirty days prior to the discontinuation of services via first class mail and an electronic message if electronic communication is available. It removes the requirement that physicians ending a patient-physician relationship publish a notice in a newspaper of daily circulation."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 105"
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citation: "Delaware HB 105 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kimberly Williams", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-04-06"
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last_action: "2023-08-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f28a9031-13e1-42f2-821f-a4784ac46bf9"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130182"
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source_hash: "559af1a79806a7a0df2f3656ad80f8635a492d573a054cf2edb9566b8b8cb371"
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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 HB 105 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 RELATING TO THE MEDICAL PRACTICES ACT.
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This Act requires physicians who are discontinuing business, leaving the State, or terminating a patient-physician relationship for any other reason to notify affected patients at least thirty days prior to the discontinuation of services via first class mail and an electronic message if electronic communication is available. It removes the requirement that physicians ending a patient-physician relationship publish a notice in a newspaper of daily circulation.
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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=130182&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB105)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 105** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=130258&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-04-06** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-25** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-26** Amendment HA 1 to HB 105 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2023-05-02** Amendment HA 1 to HB 105 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2023-05-02** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-05-02** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-07** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2023-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2023-08-09** 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/f28a9031-13e1-42f2-821f-a4784ac46bf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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