republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-148.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NURSING.	This Act updates the Board of Nursing’s enabling act to allow the Board to issue confidential letters of concern to licensees who have acted in manner warranting concern but have not violated the Board’s statute or regulations. The purpose of the letter of concern is to encourage the licensee to improve such practice. The bill further allows the Board to require any licensee who receives 3 or more letters of concern to appear before the Board for a hearing to assess the licensee’s competency, at which time the letters of concern would no longer be confidential.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 148	Delaware HB 148 (153)	bill		enacted	Edward S. Osienski Kerri Evelyn Harris Laura V. Sturgeon Marie Pinkney Melissa Minor-Brown Nicole Poore Russell Huxtable Spiros Mantzavinos	0	7	2	2025-05-13	2025-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/f4b9784e-7737-4bfb-8b78-b86f9491fc9d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142250	47a7157969367a793f398d9955387c51f129bb086e2fa726a25a80d273ecf540	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 148 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NURSING.

This Act updates the Board of Nursing’s enabling act to allow the Board to issue confidential letters of concern to licensees who have acted in manner warranting concern but have not violated the Board’s statute or regulations. The purpose of the letter of concern is to encourage the licensee to improve such practice. The bill further allows the Board to require any licensee who receives 3 or more letters of concern to appear before the Board for a hearing to assess the licensee’s competency, at which time the letters of concern would no longer be confidential.

Version chain

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

Votes

• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-13 Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 5 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-10 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-10 Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-08-25 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4b9784e-7737-4bfb-8b78-b86f9491fc9d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).