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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRACTS."
description: "This Act revises Delaware Insurance Code provisions related to the individual and group health insurance markets to directly incorporate into Delaware law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts consumer protections related to the following:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "150"
identifier: "SB 35"
citation: "Delaware SB 35 (150)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trey Paradee", "William Bush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-12"
last_action: "2019-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e29d105-c4e9-476f-947c-16c17c33a02d"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47192"
source_hash: "95a644ebe7485a0eb8553d7862edc6501afe1a310592fac58a0fb0c1033eaa85"
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 SB 35 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATED TO HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRACTS.
This Act revises Delaware Insurance Code provisions related to the individual and group health insurance markets to directly incorporate into Delaware law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts consumer protections related to the following:
## 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=47192&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB35)
## Votes
- SM — **165** (pass) · upper
- SM — **2615** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- Anthony Delcollo — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — cosponsor (person)
- Nicole Poore — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond Seigfried — cosponsor (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-12** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-10** Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 15 NO `passage`
- **2019-08-06** 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/5e29d105-c4e9-476f-947c-16c17c33a02d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).