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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE."
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description: "This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act is consumer and patient friendly."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "150"
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identifier: "SB 15"
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citation: "Delaware SB 15 (150)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Catherine Cloutier", "Ernesto B Lopez", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Trey Paradee"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-01-24"
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last_action: "2019-08-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/747414f9-ea30-40cb-a670-1894c3dbc807"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=37116"
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source_hash: "d523fbeea7e1fab4a9f8147705a79aae1abf17a4213e3cdb6363d98841c3f4ed"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware SB 15 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ABOUT LYME DISEASE.
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This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instructs the patient to see their health-care provider if the patient continues to experience unexplained symptoms. This Act is consumer and patient friendly.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=37116&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB15)
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2. **SA 1 to SB 15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47423&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Catherine Cloutier — primary (person)
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- Ernesto B Lopez — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan W. Shupe — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
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- Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- Harris B. McDowell — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
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- Jesse R. Vanderwende — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean M. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephen Smyk — cosponsor (person)
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- Timothy D. Dukes — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-24** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-05-07** Amendment SA 1 to SB 15 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
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- **2019-05-07** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2019-05-08** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-05-16** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2019-08-21** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/747414f9-ea30-40cb-a670-1894c3dbc807`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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