---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION."
description: "This Act provides a one-time increase of 3% in aggregate worker’s compensation medical expenses to correct reimbursements for medical services coded as evaluation and management (E&M) for worker compensation cases. This is needed as the E&M reimbursement rate for Workers’ Compensation cases has fallen below the reimbursement rate of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services rates. This is a critical need as the State of Delaware is in critical need of physicians to accept and treat worker compensation patients."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 164"
citation: "Delaware SB 164 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryant L. Richardson", "Claire Snyder-Hall", "Edward S. Osienski", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Ray Seigfried", "Spiros Mantzavinos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-22"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5f2f9c4-51e2-4fb5-bcd6-4cd120f5909e"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142390"
source_hash: "b5abefc78e459894e672fe44816f3a90162872f17239037abe2dc7a886a7f2ce"
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 164 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION.

This Act provides a one-time increase of 3% in aggregate worker’s compensation medical expenses to correct reimbursements for medical services coded as evaluation and management (E&M) for worker compensation cases. This is needed as the E&M reimbursement rate for Workers’ Compensation cases has fallen below the reimbursement rate of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services rates. This is a critical need as the State of Delaware is in critical need of physicians to accept and treat worker compensation patients.

## Version chain

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

1. **SA 1 to SB 164** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142507&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-22** Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-11** Amendment SA 1 to SB 164 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-06-12** Amendment SA 1 to SB 164 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-12** Assigned to Labor Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-26** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT `passage`
- **2025-06-30** 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/e5f2f9c4-51e2-4fb5-bcd6-4cd120f5909e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).