---
type: "Bill"
title: "DIRECTING THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID & MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO EXPLORE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INITIATIVES."
description: "This Senate Joint Resolution directs the Division of Medicaid & Medical Assistance (DMMA) to explore amending our Delaware Medicaid State Plan to allow for the adoption of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) From-Conception-to-End-of-Pregnancy (FCEP) option and the creation of a Health Services Initiative (HSI) that will allow our State to use federal funding to partially cover prenatal and postpartum care for individuals otherwise ineligible for free or low-cost health-care coverage due to immigration status."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SJR 6"
citation: "Delaware SJR 6 (153)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire Snyder-Hall", "Cyndie Romer", "David P. Sokola", "Eric Morrison", "Josue O Ortega", "Marie Pinkney", "Melanie Ross Levin", "Nicole Poore", "Russell Huxtable"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-05"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07500fbe-f093-40e1-87fd-c3df36380104"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142179"
source_hash: "d3ca24071c3555229b40f1631750118f55b67beef73f65d7aede10eddfffe131"
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 SJR 6 (153) — DIRECTING THE DIVISION OF MEDICAID & MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO EXPLORE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INITIATIVES.

This Senate Joint Resolution directs the Division of Medicaid & Medical Assistance (DMMA) to explore amending our Delaware Medicaid State Plan to allow for the adoption of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) From-Conception-to-End-of-Pregnancy (FCEP) option and the creation of a Health Services Initiative (HSI) that will allow our State to use federal funding to partially cover prenatal and postpartum care for individuals otherwise ineligible for free or low-cost health-care coverage due to immigration status.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-05** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-12** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2025-06-24** 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/07500fbe-f093-40e1-87fd-c3df36380104`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).