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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY PLANNING."
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description: "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."
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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 158"
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citation: "Delaware HB 158 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Eric Morrison", "Frank Burns", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Ray Seigfried", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-05-08"
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last_action: "2025-08-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02c1d379-7b6a-4922-8fed-ab34a84b3352"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142231"
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source_hash: "063e4d87f76169d672b5699b3a4291e82935f96fb453e21910de19984468b7cf"
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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 158 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY PLANNING.
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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.
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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. **HA 1 to HB 158** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142472&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Frank Burns — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
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- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — 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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- **2025-05-08** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-10** Amendment HA 1 to HB 158 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2025-06-10** Amendment HA 1 to HB 158 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-06-10** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-06-10** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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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/02c1d379-7b6a-4922-8fed-ab34a84b3352`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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