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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION."
description: "This Act establishes the Office of Suicide Prevention to address suicide prevention and to do the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 54"
citation: "Delaware HB 54 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "Dave G. Lawson", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Franklin D. Cooke", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Josue O Ortega", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Ray Seigfried", "Russell Huxtable", "Sarah McBride", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6208bc3-7c1e-4e28-8d73-dc2ea5f045d9"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141885"
source_hash: "047a9e0c5d1e7d02faf4919914085ed2c9ac77177a0f39b5e9d1965314a912bf"
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 54 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION.
This Act establishes the Office of Suicide Prevention to address suicide prevention and to do the following:
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HA 1 to HB 54** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141951&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **200** (pass) · upper
- SM — **370** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Franklin D. Cooke — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-06** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Amendment HA 1 to HB 54 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-19** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-12** Amendment HA 1 to HB 54 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-12** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-08-20** 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/b6208bc3-7c1e-4e28-8d73-dc2ea5f045d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).