republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-158.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY PLANNING.	The Public Health Emergency Planning Commission was established in 2002 and directed to deliver to the Governor a plan for responding to a public health emergency that addressed at least 21 specific provisions. Since then, that single plan has evolved into an overarching Public Health Emergency Operations Coordination Plan, which is a strategic plan that provides a broad context for the execution of public health emergency response and recovery. There are over 70 additional “plans” or annexes that provide additional procedural guidance that have been developed by DHSS in partnership with other state agencies and external stakeholders such as hospitals.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 158	Delaware HB 158 (153)	bill		enacted	Eric Morrison Frank Burns John "Jack" Walsh Melanie Ross Levin Ray Seigfried Sarah McBride Spiros Mantzavinos	1	9	2	2025-05-08	2025-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/02c1d379-7b6a-4922-8fed-ab34a84b3352	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142231	063e4d87f76169d672b5699b3a4291e82935f96fb453e21910de19984468b7cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 158 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY PLANNING.

The Public Health Emergency Planning Commission was established in 2002 and directed to deliver to the Governor a plan for responding to a public health emergency that addressed at least 21 specific provisions. Since then, that single plan has evolved into an overarching Public Health Emergency Operations Coordination Plan, which is a strategic plan that provides a broad context for the execution of public health emergency response and recovery. There are over 70 additional “plans” or annexes that provide additional procedural guidance that have been developed by DHSS in partnership with other state agencies and external stakeholders such as hospitals.

Version chain

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

1. HA 1 to HB 158 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
• 2/3 — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Frank Burns — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-08 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-10 Amendment HA 1 to HB 158 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-10 Amendment HA 1 to HB 158 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-06-10 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-10 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 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/02c1d379-7b6a-4922-8fed-ab34a84b3352. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).