AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 3 AND 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RABIES AND OTHER VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS, AND LICENSING.
Summary
This Act supports veterinarians in their effort to protect people from rabies and to ensure the welfare of animals. This Act enables licensed veterinarians to exempt an animal from the mandated rabies vaccination, if the veterinarian determines, based on their professional judgement, that the vaccine would endanger the animal's health and a titer test may be administered to assist in determining the necessity of the vaccine.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2019
Committee Review
Jan 2020
House Passage
Jun 2019
Senate Passage
Jan 2020
Signed into Law
Jul 2020
Introduced Jun 12, 2019
Signed Jul 23, 2020
Floor votes · House Jun 30, 2019
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
11
Key actions
7
Committee
2
Amendments
4
Jul 23, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by Governor
executive
Jan 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
upper
Jan 21, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits
upper
Dec 19, 2019
Introduced
Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
upper
Jun 30, 2019
Lower · Passed
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
lower
Jun 30, 2019
Lower · Passed
Amendment HA 2 to HB 214 - Passed In House by Voice Vote
lower
Jun 30, 2019
Lower · Passed
Amendment HA 1 to HB 214 - Passed In House by Voice Vote
lower
Jun 24, 2019
Introduced
Amendment HA 2 to HB 214 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
lower
Jun 19, 2019
Lower · Passed
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 On Its Merits
lower
Jun 19, 2019
Introduced
Amendment HA 1 to HB 214 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
lower
Jun 12, 2019
Introduced
Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
lower
3 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
EG
Earl G. Jaques Jr.
DDemocratic
P
Gerald Hocker
RRepublican
P
Ron Gray
RRepublican
Co
Bryan Shupe
RRepublican
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