---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DIABETES."
description: "This Act directs the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance, Division of Public Health, and Office of Management and Budget – Human Resources Management (“the Agencies”) to report to the General Assembly every 2 years the impacts and costs associated with diabetes. The first report is due by June 30, 2019. The report shall include:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "149"
identifier: "HB 203"
citation: "Delaware HB 203 (149)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Helene M. Keeley", "Margaret Rose Henry", "Michael Mulrooney", "Stephanie T. Bolden"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-01"
last_action: "2017-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34e0c39d-0dae-4cea-b687-4235d863ffe3"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25862"
source_hash: "8c91dae784d698eca6d145b180f2bed67a41c6fd4f30d885feb5ce401438d58e"
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 203 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DIABETES.

This Act directs the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance, Division of Public Health, and Office of Management and Budget – Human Resources Management (“the Agencies”) to report to the General Assembly every 2 years the impacts and costs associated with diabetes. The first report is due by June 30, 2019. The report shall include:

## 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=25862&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB203)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Michael Mulrooney — primary (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — primary (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — 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 12 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-06-27** Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-30** Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-02** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2017-09-14** 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/34e0c39d-0dae-4cea-b687-4235d863ffe3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).