---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR DOULA SERVICES."
description: "This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "HB 343"
citation: "Delaware HB 343 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Darius J. Brown", "Debra Heffernan", "Marie Pinkney", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sherry Dorsey Walker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-16"
last_action: "2022-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ced53e6-d73c-468a-9524-42b7801c71dc"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=79247"
source_hash: "42b02dc8c439a511a866b4f108f7502de10383edfefd549a7760eb598d8c716a"
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 343 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR DOULA SERVICES.

This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers.

## 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=79247&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB343)
2. **HA 1 to HB 343** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=109502&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sherae'a Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-16** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-12** Amendment HA 1 to HB 343 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-05-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 12 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-09** Amendment HA 2 to HB 343 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-06-09** Amendment HA 1 to HB 343 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-09** Amendment HA 2 to HB 343 - Stricken in House
- **2022-06-09** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2022-06-09** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2022-07-25** 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/9ced53e6-d73c-468a-9524-42b7801c71dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).