republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-227.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 16 AND 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEAD POISONING PREVENTION."
description: "This Act makes various amendments to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to improve compliance with its testing and reporting requirements. First, this Act requires physicians to take a training program every 2 years relating to the provisions of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act. Second, it requires the Division of Public Health to develop electronic forms to be used at a child’s 12 and 24 month well visit that record lead screening results and are shared with the Divison. Third, it clarifies that laboratories and health care professionals involved in blood lead level analysis must report results to the the Division of Public Health. Finally, it requires the Division of Public Health to share data with school nurses relating to whether an enrolled student has been screened for lead poisoning."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "Delaware HB 227 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Larry Lambert", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Ronald E. Gray", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-14"
last_action: "2023-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ca81ace-6569-4a19-ac3b-60ba9e60bcce"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140606"
source_hash: "bf045b5ab6cb7c4295eea15d03e1af223db5845a5cbf90793ca50d03d84e1ec1"
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 HB 227 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 16 AND 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO LEAD POISONING PREVENTION.

This Act makes various amendments to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to improve compliance with its testing and reporting requirements. First, this Act requires physicians to take a training program every 2 years relating to the provisions of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act. Second, it requires the Division of Public Health to develop electronic forms to be used at a child’s 12 and 24 month well visit that record lead screening results and are shared with the Divison. Third, it clarifies that laboratories and health care professionals involved in blood lead level analysis must report results to the the Division of Public Health. Finally, it requires the Division of Public Health to share data with school nurses relating to whether an enrolled student has been screened for lead poisoning.

## 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=140606&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB227)
2. **HA 2 to HB 227** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140709&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Ronald E. Gray — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-14** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 227 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-22** Amendment HA 1 to HB 227 - Stricken in House
- **2023-06-22** Amendment HA 2 to HB 227 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-22** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-27** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2023-08-31** 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/8ca81ace-6569-4a19-ac3b-60ba9e60bcce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).