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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY PROFESSIONALS."
description: "Sections 1-4 clarify the type of supervised experience applicants are required to obtain in order to be qualified for licensure and eliminates the requirement that reciprocal applicants be certified by a national organization prior to being qualified for licensure. Additionally, section 2 eliminates a pending criminal charge as a basis to deny licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 82"
citation: "Delaware HB 82 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Potter Jr.", "David B. McBride", "Helene M. Keeley", "John L. Mitchell", "Michael Mulrooney", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-16"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdaf8866-482d-4822-9250-f8e74fb1674c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25488"
source_hash: "f7690d2459b9dc42ffb161c5b360c013838d21a660ed97aa61b568497c39846f"
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 HB 82 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY PROFESSIONALS.
Sections 1-4 clarify the type of supervised experience applicants are required to obtain in order to be qualified for licensure and eliminates the requirement that reciprocal applicants be certified by a national organization prior to being qualified for licensure. Additionally, section 2 eliminates a pending criminal charge as a basis to deny licensure.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25488&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB82)
## Votes
- SM — **182** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Charles Potter Jr. — primary (person)
- David B. McBride — primary (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
- Michael Mulrooney — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
- John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-16** Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 82 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-23** Amendment HA 1 to HB 82 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-03-28** Assigned to Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 2 NO 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-05-02** 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/bdaf8866-482d-4822-9250-f8e74fb1674c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).