republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/150/sb-32.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING PATIENT BROKERING.	This Act prohibits the practice known as patient brokering, which is the practice where patient brokers are paid a fee to place insured people in treatment centers so that the treatment centers receive thousands of dollars in insurance claim payments for each patient. Increasingly, patient brokers fraudulently enroll patients in low-deductible health plans with out-of-network treatment benefits. Patient brokers target individuals with substance use disorders, who are told that they are receiving their treatment through a scholarship. Not only does this perpetrate fraud against insurers, when insurance plans are terminated for nonpayment of the premium, individuals are discharged from the treatment program with no services or housing and often in a state that is far from home.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	150	SB 32	Delaware SB 32 (150)	bill		enacted	Darius J. Brown David Bentz Melissa Minor-Brown	2	9	2	2019-03-14	2019-08-14	openstates	ocd-bill/8cbbbe93-d3fc-4c69-8d4b-393b8c1b711a	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47202	700f08598640319b1202a63a8676c8437cc2de732a2028db99530ccd1d87f311	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 32 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING PATIENT BROKERING.

This Act prohibits the practice known as patient brokering, which is the practice where patient brokers are paid a fee to place insured people in treatment centers so that the treatment centers receive thousands of dollars in insurance claim payments for each patient. Increasingly, patient brokers fraudulently enroll patients in low-deductible health plans with out-of-network treatment benefits. Patient brokers target individuals with substance use disorders, who are told that they are receiving their treatment through a scholarship. Not only does this perpetrate fraud against insurers, when insurance plans are terminated for nonpayment of the premium, individuals are discharged from the treatment program with no services or housing and often in a state that is far from home.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 1 to SB 32 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
• Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
• Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
• Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Quinton Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-14 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-04-16 Amendment SA 1 to SB 32 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-18 Amendment SA 1 to SB 32 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2019-04-18 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2019-05-02 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-05-15 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2019-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2019-08-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8cbbbe93-d3fc-4c69-8d4b-393b8c1b711a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).