republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-319.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE.	This legislation creates a benchmark for determining when a treatment or service is no longer experimental or investigational. When Medicare determines that a treatment is safe for its population, commercial insurers in Delaware may no longer deny coverage on that basis. This bill will remove inconsistencies for properly-evidenced treatments between payers.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 319	Delaware HB 319 (149)	bill		enacted	Bryon H. Short David P. Sokola	1	10	2	2018-04-12	2018-06-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ebd02218-0019-46bf-ab04-16a0db9e951c	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26473	afa4f7b70cdacff38aa7790093bf3cc29c85b0b8e79c58472d8d42bbbbc6960c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 319 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE.

This legislation creates a benchmark for determining when a treatment or service is no longer experimental or investigational. When Medicare determines that a treatment is safe for its population, commercial insurers in Delaware may no longer deny coverage on that basis. This bill will remove inconsistencies for properly-evidenced treatments between payers.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryon H. Short — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
• John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Trey Charles Paradee — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-04-12 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 319 introduction
• 2018-04-12 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-18 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-04-24 Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2018-04-24 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-04-25 Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-13 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebd02218-0019-46bf-ab04-16a0db9e951c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).