SB158 • 2025

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMISSIONERS OF THE DELAWARE STATE FIRE COMMISSION.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Pinkney
Last action: 2025-05-20
Official status: Senate Judiciary 5/20/25
Effective date: Not listed

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AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMISSIONERS OF THE DELAWARE STATE FIRE COMMISSION.

What This Bill Does

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMISSIONERS OF THE DELAWARE STATE FIRE COMMISSION.
This Act adds the Commissioners of the Delaware State Fire Commission as an agency that can recognize an individual as a critical incident stress management team member for purposes of determining whether certain communications are confidential under § 4319 of Title 10.
The Act also allows for the Board of Commissioners and the Executive Director of the Delaware State Fire Commission to qualify a first responder as a trained peer support member for purposes determining whether certain communications are confidential under § 4319 of Title 10.

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Bill History

2025-05-20 Delaware General Assembly
Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate

Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMISSIONERS OF THE DELAWARE STATE FIRE COMMISSION.
This Act adds the Commissioners of the Delaware State Fire Commission as an agency that can recognize an individual as a critical incident stress management team member for purposes of determining whether certain communications are confidential under § 4319 of Title 10. The Act also allows for the Board of Commissioners and the Executive Director of the Delaware State Fire Commission to qualify a first responder as a trained peer support member for purposes determining whether certain communications are confidential under § 4319 of Title 10.

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SPONSOR:

Sen. Pinkney & Rep. Cooke

DELAWARE STATE SENATE

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SENATE BILL NO. 158

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 10 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COMMISSIONERS OF THE DELAWARE STATE FIRE COMMISSION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend § 4319, Title 10 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 4319. Confidential communications involving first responders, civilian employees, or their families.

(a) For purposes of this section:

(5) “Critical incident stress management team member” or “CISM team member” means an individual who satisfies all of the following:

a. Is specially trained to provide CISM services to assist and provide support to a first responder who has been involved in a critical incident that may affect, or has affected, the person’s work performance or general well-being.

b. Meets the requirements of a nationally-accredited critical incident stress management organization or network that has been recognized by the Police Officer Standards and Training

Commission.

Commission or the Commissioners of the Delaware State Fire Commission.

c. Has been approved to function as a CISM team member by

the Delaware State Fire Commission, or

the colonel or chief of the police, fire, or emergency medical services agency of which the individual is a member.

(10) “Trained peer support member” means a first responder designated by a state, county, or municipal law-enforcement, fire, or emergency medical services agency, with approval from the agency’s colonel or chief,

Board of Commissioners, or Executive Director of the Delaware State Fire Commission,

and specially trained to provide a participant with wellness program services.

SYNOPSIS

This Act adds the Commissioners of the Delaware State Fire Commission as an agency that can recognize an individual as a critical incident stress management team member for purposes of determining whether certain communications are confidential under § 4319 of Title 10. The Act also allows for the Board of Commissioners and the Executive Director of the Delaware State Fire Commission to qualify a first responder as a trained peer support member for purposes determining whether certain communications are confidential under § 4319 of Title 10.

Author: Senator Pinkney