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| Bill | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 6, 16, 18, AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TREATMENT FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE. | The denial by private and public health benefit administrators of adequate coverage for substance abuse treatment has been identified as a major source of failed treatment efforts by persons addicted to controlled substances. These denials have also been identified as a cause of the shortage of adequate treatment facilities in Delaware. This Act seeks to ensure that persons with private and public insurance coverage have the ability to insist that they receive the substance abuse coverage to which they are entitled by law and by their insurance plans. It does so by (1) allowing the Department of Justice to provide legal assistance where appropriate to persons seeking benefits from the state’s Medicaid program, traditional health plans, or from employer-funded health benefit plans (which are exempt from state regulation), (2) requiring the state’s Medicaid program and private insurance carriers to provide notice to persons who are denied substance abuse treatment of the possibility of legal assistance in challenging those claim denials, and (3) permitting the Department of Justice to use funds in its Consumer Protection Fund to offset the cost of providing medical and legal expertise to DOJ and the Department of Insurance for the purpose of assisting persons with controlled substance addictions who are seeking treatment. This Act contains a sunset provision so that the General Assembly can assess the impact of its provisions on private and public health care costs and effective treatment of substance abuse before making its provisions permanent. | us/states/de | Delaware General Assembly | 149 | HB 100 | Delaware HB 100 (149) |
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1 | 7 | 2 | 2017-03-23 | 2017-05-30 | openstates | ocd-bill/55ff1dd2-d74e-450c-9519-2805aaaecf63 | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25520 | 927a1067878a7bfccd24955531d52fd8f8896b7452c32533dfad8fdd5d5336e9 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Delaware HB 100 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 6, 16, 18, AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TREATMENT FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE.
The denial by private and public health benefit administrators of adequate coverage for substance abuse treatment has been identified as a major source of failed treatment efforts by persons addicted to controlled substances. These denials have also been identified as a cause of the shortage of adequate treatment facilities in Delaware. This Act seeks to ensure that persons with private and public insurance coverage have the ability to insist that they receive the substance abuse coverage to which they are entitled by law and by their insurance plans. It does so by (1) allowing the Department of Justice to provide legal assistance where appropriate to persons seeking benefits from the state’s Medicaid program, traditional health plans, or from employer-funded health benefit plans (which are exempt from state regulation), (2) requiring the state’s Medicaid program and private insurance carriers to provide notice to persons who are denied substance abuse treatment of the possibility of legal assistance in challenging those claim denials, and (3) permitting the Department of Justice to use funds in its Consumer Protection Fund to offset the cost of providing medical and legal expertise to DOJ and the Department of Insurance for the purpose of assisting persons with controlled substance addictions who are seeking treatment. This Act contains a sunset provision so that the General Assembly can assess the impact of its provisions on private and public health care costs and effective treatment of substance abuse before making its provisions permanent.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower
- SM — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Anthony Delcollo — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
- Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
- Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
- Michael Mulrooney — primary (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
- Timothy D. Dukes — primary (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Potter Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
- James Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-03-23 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
introduction, referral-committee - 2017-03-29 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage - 2017-04-04 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
passage - 2017-04-04 Assigned to Health, Children & Social Services Committee in Senate
introduction, referral-committee - 2017-05-10 Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage - 2017-05-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 ABSENT
passage - 2017-05-30 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55ff1dd2-d74e-450c-9519-2805aaaecf63. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).