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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAID AND HOME HEALTH CARE."
+description: "This bill sets a minimum reimbursement rate for home health care nursing services paid for by Medicaid-contracted organizations. The rate shall be at least equal to the rate set by the Division of Medicaid for equivalent services. Home care nurses and aides give Delawareans with disabilities the option to remain at home with their families and prevents unnecessary use of higher-cost hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "149"
+identifier: "HB 200"
+citation: "Delaware HB 200 (149)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Debra Heffernan"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-06-01"
+last_action: "2017-08-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba3072d3-b14d-473e-96b2-5961390c4e1a"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25864"
+source_hash: "88e43667df4eeb71b804ac74317e0ab53b56f94529c3533cb465746f1c432bd7"
+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 200 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAID AND HOME HEALTH CARE.
+
+This bill sets a minimum reimbursement rate for home health care nursing services paid for by Medicaid-contracted organizations. The rate shall be at least equal to the rate set by the Division of Medicaid for equivalent services. Home care nurses and aides give Delawareans with disabilities the option to remain at home with their families and prevents unnecessary use of higher-cost hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=25864&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB200)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **16–2** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret Rose Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-06-01** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-28** Amendment HA 2 to HB 200 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-06-28** Amendment HA 1 to HB 200 - Stricken in House
+- **2017-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 2 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2017-08-30** 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/ba3072d3-b14d-473e-96b2-5961390c4e1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+