Delaware Senate Bill 246 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: Passed on August 6 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-08-06 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

Presently, a legal process does not exist for a Delaware hospital to seek the appointment of a guardian for a non-acute patient who has been a patient at the hospital for an extended period, after having been abandoned by family. This bill authorizes a hospital to petition for a court-appointed guardian for such a patient after providing two notices to the patient, the patient's surrogate, or the patient's family if there is no surrogate, of the need to seek a guardian for the patient.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Health And Safety And Obligations Of Health-care Providers For Non-acute Patients.

Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Rep. Raymond Seigfried [D]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. David McBride [D]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]
Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. William Carson [D]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]
Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]	Rep. John Viola [D]

2020-06-25 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 41 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-06-23 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-08-06		Signed by Governor
2020-06-25		Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
2020-06-25		Suspension of Rules in House
2020-06-23		Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
2020-06-23		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2020-06-23		Suspension of Rules in Senate
2020-06-16		Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48141
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48141&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB246
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41563
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41609