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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COVERAGE FOR DOULA SERVICES."
+description: "This Act requires Medicaid coverage for additional postpartum visits with a doula upon recommendation of a licensed practitioner or clinician."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "152"
+identifier: "HB 345"
+citation: "Delaware HB 345 (152)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Paul S. Baumbach", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "William Bush"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 7
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-12"
+last_action: "2024-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a51b439-29a2-4170-adff-4bf194b2d591"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141027"
+source_hash: "310089781c6992a8e7f2d59f6111a856cd9bfd4ced29c546c8d212e66690d6ce"
+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 345 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COVERAGE FOR DOULA SERVICES.
+
+This Act requires Medicaid coverage for additional postpartum visits with a doula upon recommendation of a licensed practitioner or clinician.
+
+## 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=141027&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB345)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
+- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
+- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
+- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- William Bush — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-26** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
+- **2024-03-26** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-24** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-18** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
+- **2024-06-30** 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/0a51b439-29a2-4170-adff-4bf194b2d591`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
+