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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NURSING."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "153"
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identifier: "HB 148"
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citation: "Delaware HB 148 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-05-13"
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last_action: "2025-08-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4b9784e-7737-4bfb-8b78-b86f9491fc9d"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142250"
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source_hash: "47a7157969367a793f398d9955387c51f129bb086e2fa726a25a80d273ecf540"
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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 HB 148 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NURSING.
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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.
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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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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — 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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- **2025-05-13** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2025-06-10** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-06-10** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2025-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2025-08-25** 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/f4b9784e-7737-4bfb-8b78-b86f9491fc9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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