republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-52.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STERILE NEEDLE AND SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM.	This Act directs the State’s current needle exchange program to take a needs-based approach.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 52	Delaware SB 52 (152)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Cyndie Romer Darius J. Brown David L. Wilson David P. Sokola Eric Morrison Kendra Johnson Kerri Evelyn Harris Madinah Wilson-Anton Marie Pinkney Nicole Poore Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable S. Elizabeth Lockman Sarah McBride Spiros Mantzavinos Trey Paradee	1	16	2	2023-03-01	2023-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/f4891c7d-2ed6-4316-a1c8-80a5c834e6f7	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130023	eb85e176d3b1988b917b050ff5bb7075cdb02715058844a61df5a84edd1a795e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 52 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE STERILE NEEDLE AND SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM.

This Act directs the State’s current needle exchange program to take a needs-based approach.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 15–5 (pass) · upper
• SM — 24–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-01 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-29 Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2023-04-06 Amendment SA 1 to SB 52 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-06 Amendment SA 2 to SB 52 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-06 Amendment SA 1 to SB 52 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 5 YES 15 NO 1 ABSENT amendment-failure
• 2023-04-06 Amendment SA 2 to SB 52 - Stricken in Senate
• 2023-04-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 ABSENT passage
• 2023-04-20 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 Not Worked in Committee
• 2023-05-03 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2023-05-04 Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2023-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 17 ABSENT passage
• 2023-08-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4891c7d-2ed6-4316-a1c8-80a5c834e6f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).