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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AN ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE COMPACT."
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description: "This Act adopts the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. The Compact benefits the public by improving continuity of care, increasing license portability for advanced practice registered nurses, and increasing access to APRN care. Under the Compact, APRNs licensed in a Compact member state may practice in another Compact member state. In adopting the Compact, the state-based licensure system is preserved but communication between states is enhanced."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "HB 21"
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citation: "Delaware HB 21 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Melissa Minor-Brown", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2020-12-04"
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last_action: "2021-08-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2ad7c99-534e-4e9d-bda2-83ef5c069bf4"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48202"
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source_hash: "04744104b2fddda09eae4e14e225d6beb26184377eb6098e22dd3cd67db3e635"
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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 HB 21 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AN ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE COMPACT.
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This Act adopts the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. The Compact benefits the public by improving continuity of care, increasing license portability for advanced practice registered nurses, and increasing access to APRN care. Under the Compact, APRNs licensed in a Compact member state may practice in another Compact member state. In adopting the Compact, the state-based licensure system is preserved but communication between states is enhanced.
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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=48202&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB21)
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## Votes
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- 2/3 — **38–3** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **20–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
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- William J. Carson — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-12-04** Introduced and Assigned to Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-01-27** Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-05-14** Suspension of Rules in House
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- **2021-05-20** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 NO `passage`
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- **2021-05-20** Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-09** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO `passage`
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- **2021-08-04** 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/f2ad7c99-534e-4e9d-bda2-83ef5c069bf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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