republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-309.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS.	This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed in a multiyear collaborative and non-partisan process to modernize and expand on the 1993 version of the act.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 309	Delaware SB 309 (152)	bill		enacted	Kerri Evelyn Harris Kyle Evans Gay Paul S. Baumbach	2	9	2	2024-05-16	2024-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141421	248f4bd84d19336ee5cd0e830f1cee7cafe688e34c11c7a7f6a1b9e0269be1f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 309 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS.

This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed in a multiyear collaborative and non-partisan process to modernize and expand on the 1993 version of the act.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 309 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 19–2 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-16 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-22 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-06-17 Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-06-18 Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO amendment-passage
• 2024-06-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO passage
• 2024-06-20 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO passage
• 2024-09-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).