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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CERTIFICATION OF CENTRAL SERVICE TECHNICIANS."
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description: "This Act establishes certification and continuing education requirements for central service technicians working in hospitals and freestanding surgical centers. Central service technicians are an important part of the healthcare team responsible for decontaminating, inspecting, assembling, disassembling, packaging, and sterilizing reusable surgical instruments and equipment. This Act requires individuals who perform the tasks of a central service technician to pass a nationally accredited examination and to hold either a certified registered central service technician credential or certified sterile processing and distribution technician credential within 18 months of hire. This Act grandfathers anyone working as a central service technician in a health care facility on or before January 1, 2023."
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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 279"
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citation: "Delaware HB 279 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-01-06"
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last_action: "2022-10-21"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8344c0d-4356-4dae-a841-8f458efc3cfc"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79060"
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source_hash: "ef94d8ddb1e70f47aafae5d6497e52fd3ce0acb86acbff471432cc9b7c6a6f59"
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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 279 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CERTIFICATION OF CENTRAL SERVICE TECHNICIANS.
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This Act establishes certification and continuing education requirements for central service technicians working in hospitals and freestanding surgical centers. Central service technicians are an important part of the healthcare team responsible for decontaminating, inspecting, assembling, disassembling, packaging, and sterilizing reusable surgical instruments and equipment. This Act requires individuals who perform the tasks of a central service technician to pass a nationally accredited examination and to hold either a certified registered central service technician credential or certified sterile processing and distribution technician credential within 18 months of hire. This Act grandfathers anyone working as a central service technician in a health care facility on or before January 1, 2023.
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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=79060&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB279)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 279** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=99315&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3/5 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
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- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — 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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- **2022-01-06** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-23** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-04** Amendment HA 1 to HB 279 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-04-05** Amendment HA 1 to HB 279 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-04-05** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2022-04-05** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2022-10-21** 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/c8344c0d-4356-4dae-a841-8f458efc3cfc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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