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Bill AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OF EMERGENCY PRESCRIPTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR CHRONIC OR LONG-TERM CONDITIONS. Due to the delay in the prior authorization process by pharmacy benefit managers, many patients end up waiting days to weeks for medications to be filled that are prescribed on an emergency basis or for medications that have been previously prescribed for chronic and long-term conditions that must go through the prior authorization process again. To reduce the delay and hardship of this waiting process, this bill will put into place specified time tables to fill emergency prescriptions and to make subsequent prior authorizations for chronic and long-term conditions to be filled more readily. us/states/de Delaware General Assembly 149 HB 441 Delaware HB 441 (149)
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Delaware HB 441 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OF EMERGENCY PRESCRIPTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR CHRONIC OR LONG-TERM CONDITIONS.

Due to the delay in the prior authorization process by pharmacy benefit managers, many patients end up waiting days to weeks for medications to be filled that are prescribed on an emergency basis or for medications that have been previously prescribed for chronic and long-term conditions that must go through the prior authorization process again. To reduce the delay and hardship of this waiting process, this bill will put into place specified time tables to fill emergency prescriptions and to make subsequent prior authorizations for chronic and long-term conditions to be filled more readily.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SM — 410 (pass) · lower
  • SM — 210 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Nicole Poore — primary (person)
  • William J. Carson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-06-05 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
  • 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits committee-passage
  • 2018-06-26 Amendment HA 1 to HB 441 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
  • 2018-06-27 Amendment HA 1 to HB 441 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
  • 2018-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
  • 2018-07-01 Suspension of Rules in Senate
  • 2018-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
  • 2018-08-28 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfccc2df-b375-4ef6-b7cf-690440f58d33. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).