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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COPAYMENT OR COINSURANCE FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS."
description: "This Act would prohibit insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from engaging in the practice of \"clawbacks\". When the total cost of a prescription drug to an insurer or pharmacy benefits manager is less than a patient's co-pay, the insurer or pharmacy benefits manager keeps the difference in a practice known as a \"clawback\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "HB 24"
citation: "Delaware HB 24 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andria L. Bennett", "Anthony Delcollo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-04"
last_action: "2019-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd9ab569-c2f8-48bc-a278-9a345251b26b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=27050"
source_hash: "da191d2ecbc5d32ca3f524bcad9cc636a720e3051c6a632fd05aa06d56308d68"
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 HB 24 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COPAYMENT OR COINSURANCE FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
This Act would prohibit insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from engaging in the practice of "clawbacks". When the total cost of a prescription drug to an insurer or pharmacy benefits manager is less than a patient's co-pay, the insurer or pharmacy benefits manager keeps the difference in a practice known as a "clawback".
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=27050&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB24)
2. **HA 1 to HB 24** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=47209&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **380** (pass) · lower
- SM — **180** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Andria L. Bennett — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — primary (person)
- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Earl G. Jaques Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- William Bush — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-04** Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 24 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 24 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-12** Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2019-06-19** 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/bd9ab569-c2f8-48bc-a278-9a345251b26b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).