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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS DISCLOSURE ACT."
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description: "This Act updates Chapter 10A of Title 16, the Healthcare-Associated Infections Disclosure Act, to ensure consistency with correct terminology, such as psychiatric changes to behavioral health facilities and to adherence to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) requirements."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "153"
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identifier: "HB 156"
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citation: "Delaware HB 156 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Eric Morrison", "Frank Burns", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Ray Seigfried", "Sarah McBride"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-05-08"
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last_action: "2025-08-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40b1b70f-e1c1-48d6-8ebb-4890c4b8fa5c"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142228"
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source_hash: "5c42b00dfaf336df4ce399b80d5b38808acbaba42aeb9f3018e80a493626770b"
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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 156 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS DISCLOSURE ACT.
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This Act updates Chapter 10A of Title 16, the Healthcare-Associated Infections Disclosure Act, to ensure consistency with correct terminology, such as psychiatric changes to behavioral health facilities and to adherence to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) requirements.
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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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## Votes
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Frank Burns — primary (person)
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- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
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- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-05-08** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-10** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-06-10** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2025-08-25** 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/40b1b70f-e1c1-48d6-8ebb-4890c4b8fa5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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