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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT."
description: "This Bill clarifies that every prescriber holding a controlled substance registration must be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program. Further, prescribers who receive a CSR (controlled substances registration) for the first time must register with the Prescription Monitoring Program within 90 days."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "SB 44"
citation: "Delaware SB 44 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-30"
last_action: "2017-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/667f29e9-2c99-45ad-aa47-dac9dea485a7"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25566"
source_hash: "fe4c37e5947ccf7cff2f21e09b68925ee182d5068eba1d0bdbfd5d85b3437f0a"
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 44 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.
This Bill clarifies that every prescriber holding a controlled substance registration must be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program. Further, prescribers who receive a CSR (controlled substances registration) for the first time must register with the Prescription Monitoring Program within 90 days.
## 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=25566&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB44)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **410** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph E. Miro — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-30** Introduced and Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-26** Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-26** Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-04-27** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2017-07-21** 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/667f29e9-2c99-45ad-aa47-dac9dea485a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).