---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PRIMARY CARE REFORM COLLABORATIVE AND THE CREATION OF THE OFFICE OF VALUE-BASED HEALTH CARE DELIVERY."
description: "This Act expands the membership of the Primary Care Reform Collaborative and creates an Office of Value-Based Health Care Delivery in the Department of Insurance to reduce health care costs by increasing the availability of high quality, cost-efficient health insurance products that have stable, predictable, and affordable rates. The Office of Value-Based Health Care Delivery will work with the Primary Care Reform Collaborative and the State benchmarking process."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 116"
citation: "Delaware SB 116 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David Bentz", "Laura V. Sturgeon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-25"
last_action: "2019-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4980a0c0-1c89-41a6-b433-510d831c931c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47843"
source_hash: "704766f9bf417448ef3ec8579d249cb23b94a8b1c49176a92b6f4666e74c5078"
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 SB 116 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 AND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE PRIMARY CARE REFORM COLLABORATIVE AND THE CREATION OF THE OFFICE OF VALUE-BASED HEALTH CARE DELIVERY.

This Act expands the membership of the Primary Care Reform Collaborative and creates an Office of Value-Based Health Care Delivery in the Department of Insurance to reduce health care costs by increasing the availability of high quality, cost-efficient health insurance products that have stable, predictable, and affordable rates. The Office of Value-Based Health Care Delivery will work with the Primary Care Reform Collaborative and the State benchmarking process.

## 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=47843&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SS1)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- David Bentz — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Ernesto B Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-25** was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 116 `introduction`
- **2019-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-30** Suspension of Rules in House
- **2019-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
- **2019-08-07** 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/4980a0c0-1c89-41a6-b433-510d831c931c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).