republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/sb-225.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16, TITLE 24, TITLE 29, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR THE TREATMENT OF BACK PAIN.	This Act encourages prescribers and patients to use proven non-opioid methods of treating back pain by doing the following:	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	SB 225	Delaware SB 225 (149)	bill		enacted	Helene M. Keeley Stephanie L. Hansen	1	12	2	2018-06-01	2018-09-10	openstates	ocd-bill/86c3f8b4-d806-4202-82e6-c36b2938e775	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=26735	034896bd57ab530bb3c5c5cd33b78494e28e3725b42f685349934a11fee1dc33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 225 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16, TITLE 24, TITLE 29, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR THE TREATMENT OF BACK PAIN.

This Act encourages prescribers and patients to use proven non-opioid methods of treating back pain by doing the following:

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 11–5 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Helene M. Keeley — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-01 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-14 Amendment SA 1 to SB 225 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 Amendment SA 2 to SB 225 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-21 Amendment SA 1 to SB 225 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2018-06-21 Amendment SA 2 to SB 225 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2018-06-21 Passed By Senate. Votes: 11 YES 5 NO 2 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT passage
• 2018-06-22 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-27 Re-Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2018-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2018-09-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86c3f8b4-d806-4202-82e6-c36b2938e775. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).