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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR DOULA SERVICES."
+description: "This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 343"
+citation: "Delaware HB 343 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-03-16"
+last_action: "2022-07-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ced53e6-d73c-468a-9524-42b7801c71dc"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79247"
+source_hash: "42b02dc8c439a511a866b4f108f7502de10383edfefd549a7760eb598d8c716a"
+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 343 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR DOULA SERVICES.
+
+This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers.
+
+## 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=79247&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB343)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 343** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109502&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
+- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-03-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-12** Amendment HA 1 to HB 343 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2022-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 12 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-09** Amendment HA 2 to HB 343 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2022-06-09** Amendment HA 1 to HB 343 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2022-06-09** Amendment HA 2 to HB 343 - Stricken in House
+- **2022-06-09** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2022-06-09** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2022-07-25** 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/9ced53e6-d73c-468a-9524-42b7801c71dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+