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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER."
+description: "This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 16"
+citation: "Delaware HB 16 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-29"
+last_action: "2024-10-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b017787f-eef2-4538-a0c8-f5d8224aa81c"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140958"
+source_hash: "e5f8a853867d4ba811b402921006898b1cea4230c188d3c3963340851f51c0db"
+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 16 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER.
+
+This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
+
+## 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=140958&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB16)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141444&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
+- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
+- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
+- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-29** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-19** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 16 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-11** Amendment HA 1 to HB 16 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-06-11** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-06-11** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-18** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-10-09** 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/b017787f-eef2-4538-a0c8-f5d8224aa81c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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