---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSURANCE EXAMINATIONS."
description: "This Act provides that privilege between a policyholder or claimant and an insurance company is not waived simply because information is submitted by companies to the Insurance Commissioner, whether or not the information is redacted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "HB 74"
citation: "Delaware HB 74 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Ray Seigfried", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2025-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdf5e1b0-01ed-4bfa-a5c4-68111a48e09c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141939"
source_hash: "a81cec1fa84e8ccf09951666d72fe7b664f0e2577a453423220840d1d5b0726d"
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 74 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSURANCE EXAMINATIONS.

This Act provides that privilege between a policyholder or claimant and an insurance company is not waived simply because information is submitted by companies to the Insurance Commissioner, whether or not the information is redacted.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **34–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-13** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-08-25** 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/cdf5e1b0-01ed-4bfa-a5c4-68111a48e09c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).