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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 SURGICAL SMOKE."
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description: "This Act requires health care employers to implement a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke."
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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 173"
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citation: "Delaware HB 173 (153)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Edward S. Osienski", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
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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: "2025-06-24"
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last_action: "2025-08-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf0ea99d-8b05-4ff3-b174-c9d9bf524294"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142611"
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source_hash: "28479f9a18896c0865ac1a5dd2d2e4e27767b5e4b46992788e955dadc7b5fd1a"
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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 173 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SURGICAL SMOKE.
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This Act requires health care employers to implement a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.
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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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- 2/3 — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-06-24** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 173, and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-24** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
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- **2025-06-26** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-30** 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/cf0ea99d-8b05-4ff3-b174-c9d9bf524294`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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