republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hb-3.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BREASTFEEDING.	This Act creates a breastfeeding and lactation program within the DOC to provide lactation support to women in DOC custody. Among other things, it permits women to collect breast milk for later retrieval and delivery to an infant or toddler by an approved person. It also requires the DOC to provide nutrition information and a meal plan specific to pregnant, post-partum, or lactating women, based on national best practices. This Act further requires that DOC publish an annual report regarding the number of participants in the program and the nature of services provided.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HB 3	Delaware HB 3 (153)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend Claire Snyder-Hall Cyndie Romer Dave G. Lawson David P. Sokola DeShanna U Neal Edward S. Osienski Eric Morrison Kerri Evelyn Harris Mara Gorman Marie Pinkney Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Russell Huxtable Spiros Mantzavinos Trey Paradee	0	7	2	2025-01-09	2025-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/9eb8ae3d-86db-4ddd-8258-7343ee09bace	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141756	9360c66a0ba39d8e048f244500206e7fa528f85d505d1a2058708ecc50258d20	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 3 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BREASTFEEDING.

This Act creates a breastfeeding and lactation program within the DOC to provide lactation support to women in DOC custody. Among other things, it permits women to collect breast milk for later retrieval and delivery to an infant or toddler by an approved person. It also requires the DOC to provide nutrition information and a meal plan specific to pregnant, post-partum, or lactating women, based on national best practices. This Act further requires that DOC publish an annual report regarding the number of participants in the program and the nature of services provided.

Version chain

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

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• DeShanna U Neal — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Mara Gorman — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-09 Introduced and Assigned to Corrections Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-17 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-17 Assigned to Corrections & Public Safety Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-07-21 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9eb8ae3d-86db-4ddd-8258-7343ee09bace. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).