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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GENETIC COUNSELORS."
description: "This Act allows licensed genetic counselors to order genetic tests."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Delaware SB 70 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Darius J. Brown", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-12"
last_action: "2025-08-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26ac0f60-9515-44b8-9333-ca4d157f81e0"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141934"
source_hash: "681974cd9c1a092be7c445eccd4c3c82bbc365f208b6cee23d9fa57aa69ba803"
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 70 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO GENETIC COUNSELORS.
This Act allows licensed genetic counselors to order genetic tests.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SA 1 to SB 70** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142094&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **330** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — 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)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment SA 1 to SB 70 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 6 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 8 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-08-21** 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/26ac0f60-9515-44b8-9333-ca4d157f81e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).