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Delaware lawmakers soften push to split health department, agree to resolution

Posted on June 27, 2019

Originally published June 27, 2019 by News Journal
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Senate Majority Leader Nicole Poore with friends during Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day.
Senate Majority Leader Nicole Poore, D-New Castle, with friends during Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day. (Nicole Poore/nicolepoore.com)

Facing sharp backlash, Sen. Nicole Poore changed direction away from her bill calling for a “review … to determine how to best reorganize” the Department of Health and Social Services. Instead she sponsored a resolution, which easily passed both chambers, that would study how to make the department more effective and efficient.

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