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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BUREAU OF HEALTH EQUITY."
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description: "Like Senate Bill No. 212, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 212 codifies the Bureau of Health Equity (BHE) in the Division of Public Health, which includes the Office of Minority Health and the Office of Women’s Health. The purpose of the BHE is to ensure that everyone in Delaware will achieve their full health potential by eliminating health disparities, particularly among all racial and ethnic minority groups. The BHE works with communities to address social determinants of health, focusing on prevention, health, and wellness in the broader population instead of treatment focused on individuals. Health disparities are preventable differences in the quality of health or health care between 2 or more groups of people based on a shared characteristic of the individuals within each group, such as race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status and the differences between the groups regarding access to health care or burdens, prevalence, or incidence of disease or violence."
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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: "SB 212"
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citation: "Delaware SB 212 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "David P. Sokola", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Marie Pinkney", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-03-11"
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last_action: "2024-08-12"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86428bc1-3444-4ba5-bc59-9a710ca6cdb6"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141023"
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source_hash: "060870bc2fa7459959fac736ceb314f2d2ce3b01bc5f3eca235d3032fee09ea7"
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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 212 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BUREAU OF HEALTH EQUITY.
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Like Senate Bill No. 212, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 212 codifies the Bureau of Health Equity (BHE) in the Division of Public Health, which includes the Office of Minority Health and the Office of Women’s Health. The purpose of the BHE is to ensure that everyone in Delaware will achieve their full health potential by eliminating health disparities, particularly among all racial and ethnic minority groups. The BHE works with communities to address social determinants of health, focusing on prevention, health, and wellness in the broader population instead of treatment focused on individuals. Health disparities are preventable differences in the quality of health or health care between 2 or more groups of people based on a shared characteristic of the individuals within each group, such as race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status and the differences between the groups regarding access to health care or burdens, prevalence, or incidence of disease or violence.
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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=141023&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1forSB212)
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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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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — 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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- **2024-03-11** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 212, and Assigned to Elections & Government Affairs Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-03-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
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- **2024-03-21** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-25** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-08-12** 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/86428bc1-3444-4ba5-bc59-9a710ca6cdb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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