Fabio
85 lines
4.0 KiB
Markdown
85 lines
4.0 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR."
|
||
description: "This Act establishes a Behavioral Health Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work behavioral health professionals, such as, school counselors, social workers, licensed clinical social workers, school psychologists, and school nurses."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
|
||
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
|
||
session: "151"
|
||
identifier: "HB 35"
|
||
citation: "Delaware HB 35 (151)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Edward S. Osienski", "Kimberly Williams", "Larry Lambert", "Marie Pinkney", "Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha", "Sarah McBride", "Valerie Longhurst"]
|
||
version_count: 1
|
||
action_count: 8
|
||
vote_count: 2
|
||
first_action: "2020-12-11"
|
||
last_action: "2021-02-17"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18925bd6-b250-403c-8231-512498dd5f16"
|
||
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48213"
|
||
source_hash: "c0d5457fc1e43e2d2f72474b34fd522a14152f1032d555ca35bcda40f028ea36"
|
||
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 HB 35 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR.
|
||
|
||
This Act establishes a Behavioral Health Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work behavioral health professionals, such as, school counselors, social workers, licensed clinical social workers, school psychologists, and school nurses.
|
||
|
||
## 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=48213&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB35)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
|
||
- 3/5 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
|
||
- Kimberly Williams — primary (person)
|
||
- Larry Lambert — primary (person)
|
||
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
|
||
- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — primary (person)
|
||
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
|
||
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
|
||
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
|
||
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2020-12-11** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
|
||
- **2021-01-13** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
|
||
- **2021-01-26** Suspension of Rules in House
|
||
- **2021-01-27** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
|
||
- **2021-01-27** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
|
||
- **2021-01-27** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2021-01-28** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
|
||
- **2021-02-17** 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/18925bd6-b250-403c-8231-512498dd5f16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
|
||
|