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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMPACT."
description: "This Act enters Delaware into the Social Work Licensure Compact. This will allow social workers to obtain a multistate license among the member states. Delaware will join the Compact Commission that is comprised of membership of all states that have enacted the Compact. Enough states have enacted the Compact that the Commission has been created and the applications for licensure could start in late 2025. Currently, at least 24 states have joined the Compact, while another 18 have pending legislation to enact the Compact, including Maryland and Pennsylvania."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 109"
citation: "Delaware SB 109 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "Darius J. Brown", "Dave G. Lawson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-06"
last_action: "2025-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1d8fd50-1a3f-431b-9a0b-3d1d734f08cb"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142198"
source_hash: "b6b7a75ee310f17cba35913d122f1019239f93bcfbb6c96b8fccd68a01ab876e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---
# Delaware SB 109 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO A SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMPACT.
This Act enters Delaware into the Social Work Licensure Compact. This will allow social workers to obtain a multistate license among the member states. Delaware will join the Compact Commission that is comprised of membership of all states that have enacted the Compact. Enough states have enacted the Compact that the Commission has been created and the applications for licensure could start in late 2025. Currently, at least 24 states have joined the Compact, while another 18 have pending legislation to enact the Compact, including Maryland and Pennsylvania.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- SM — **400** (pass) · lower
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-06** Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 109, and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-08-25** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1d8fd50-1a3f-431b-9a0b-3d1d734f08cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).