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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS."
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description: "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."
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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 309"
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citation: "Delaware SB 309 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Kyle Evans Gay", "Paul S. Baumbach"]
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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: "2024-05-16"
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last_action: "2024-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141421"
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source_hash: "248f4bd84d19336ee5cd0e830f1cee7cafe688e34c11c7a7f6a1b9e0269be1f5"
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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 309 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 12 AND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS.
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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.
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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=141421&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB309)
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2. **SA 1 to SB 309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141594&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **19–2** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — primary (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-05-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-17** Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2024-06-18** Amendment SA 1 to SB 309 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `amendment-passage`
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- **2024-06-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO `passage`
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- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2024-09-30** 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/19486a2b-aba1-4cce-a051-7dcf372ed7fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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