---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE AND THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT."
description: "This Act updates a cross-reference to regulations under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 209"
citation: "Delaware HB 209 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "David P. Sokola", "Krista Griffith", "Mara Gorman", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Ray Seigfried", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-06"
last_action: "2025-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c09e266c-5f60-4263-9e97-222a888cbb9d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142446"
source_hash: "44065dd06f9c98902f71e65ed5bdedfae9db9d2772a7e42060287a983054d3ee"
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 209 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH CARE AND THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.

This Act updates a cross-reference to regulations under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- 2/3 — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Krista Griffith — primary (person)
- Mara Gorman — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-06** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-17** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2025-07-21** 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/c09e266c-5f60-4263-9e97-222a888cbb9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).