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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 was previously passed by the 150th General Assembly in Senate Bill 15, and is the same except for the removal of the sunset provision."
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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 309"
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citation: "Delaware HB 309 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B. Lopez", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "William Bush"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-03-03"
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last_action: "2022-08-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5389d12e-deb4-409c-b95b-f3c7482db670"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79160"
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source_hash: "ff54d558ec7af3454c92ca8ec9b775cc929884a30b305ddabe06be87702a91de"
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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 309 (151) — 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 was previously passed by the 150th General Assembly in Senate Bill 15, and is the same except for the removal of the sunset provision.
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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=79160&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB309)
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## Votes
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce C. Ennis — 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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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Eric Morrison — 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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- Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
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- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah McBride — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-03-03** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-16** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-03-17** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-03-17** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-06** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2022-08-04** 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/5389d12e-deb4-409c-b95b-f3c7482db670`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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