republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-83.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OF RESIDENTS OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.	This Act amends the long-term care resident’s bill of rights to provide that residents may not be subject to discrimination based on their membership in a protected class. Specifically, this Act does the following:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 83	Delaware SB 83 (153)	bill		enacted	Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall David P. Sokola Eric Morrison Franklin D. Cooke Marie Pinkney Melanie Ross Levin Nicole Poore Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride	0	7	2	2025-04-03	2025-09-03	openstates	ocd-bill/c4f66191-a875-46e6-9820-694842bc8137	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142037	20e445f803be346d612c29777ad2272a65fdc468977e66bbfcf58cd84c0e6f95	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 83 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OF RESIDENTS OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.

This Act amends the long-term care resident’s bill of rights to provide that residents may not be subject to discrimination based on their membership in a protected class. Specifically, this Act does the following:

Version chain

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

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
• Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-03 Introduced 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
• 2025-05-14 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-05-15 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-09-03 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4f66191-a875-46e6-9820-694842bc8137. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).