---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FEES COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE."
description: "Delaware is currently ranked highest in the nation for form filing fees. This Act ensures that Delaware stays competitive as an insurer domicile by preventing the Insurance Commissioner from charging more than $2000 per filing for form filing fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 242"
citation: "Delaware HB 242 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-20"
last_action: "2019-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a01a0b7-77e1-455d-898f-79e50d8df188"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47791"
source_hash: "e8d0f3e4afbb1439a94000eb9484fad8524efb85cf9422b000a58550f56fe3c7"
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 242 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FEES COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE.

Delaware is currently ranked highest in the nation for form filing fees. This Act ensures that Delaware stays competitive as an insurer domicile by preventing the Insurance Commissioner from charging more than $2000 per filing for form filing fees.

## 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=47791&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB242)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-20** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-01** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2019-07-01** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2019-07-17** 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/8a01a0b7-77e1-455d-898f-79e50d8df188`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).