republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-41.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE POLICIES.	Section 1 of this Act clarifies that the reinstatement obligations of insurers under Section 3903(d) apply in instances of both nonrenewals and cancellations of policies due to nonpayment of premiums. Sections 2 through 4 of this Act revise the method by which an insured may contest or appeal a nonrenewal or cancellation of an automobile policy from a hearing process to a review by the Commissioner on the papers, which reflects the Department’s prior practices in handling these appeals and provides a more streamlined and efficient process for timely reviewing a consumer’s appeal. Section 5 of this Act extends the protections against unfair automobile insurance rating practices related to a service member’s deployment to deployments both within and outside of the U.S. and its waters.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 41	Delaware HB 41 (151)	bill		enacted	Trey Paradee William Bush	1	8	2	2021-01-07	2021-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ff135130-6eba-4601-a86c-6a4e0401525b	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48229	79b6ef2806e212adb361ea725f89de8878f19ac5f5004e33fe03f05c68dbebd1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 41 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE POLICIES.

Section 1 of this Act clarifies that the reinstatement obligations of insurers under Section 3903(d) apply in instances of both nonrenewals and cancellations of policies due to nonpayment of premiums. Sections 2 through 4 of this Act revise the method by which an insured may contest or appeal a nonrenewal or cancellation of an automobile policy from a hearing process to a review by the Commissioner on the papers, which reflects the Department’s prior practices in handling these appeals and provides a more streamlined and efficient process for timely reviewing a consumer’s appeal. Section 5 of this Act extends the protections against unfair automobile insurance rating practices related to a service member’s deployment to deployments both within and outside of the U.S. and its waters.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Trey Paradee — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• Bruce C. Ennis — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-07 Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-01-14 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 6 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-04 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-03-11 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2021-03-12 Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-09-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff135130-6eba-4601-a86c-6a4e0401525b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).