republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/hb-442.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE HEALTH CARE COMMISSION AND STATE OF DELAWARE HEALTH CARE SPENDING AND QUALITY BENCHMARKS.	Delaware’s per capita health care spending consistently ranks in the top ten highest spending states and has historically outpaced economic growth in Delaware. Enhanced transparency and shared accountability for spending and quality targets have been used to accelerate changes in our health care delivery system, creating benefits for employers, state government and health care consumers. House Joint Resolution 7 of the 149th General Assembly and Executive Order Nineteen tasked the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) with the establishment of annual health care spending and quality benchmarks as a strategy to address the unsustainable growth in health care spending while also measuring aspects of health care quality. This Act serves to replace Executive Order Twenty-Five which established Delaware’s Spending and Quality Benchmark initiative in 2018. The codification of these benchmarks supports the continuation of Delaware’s Road to Value by improving the transparency of health care spending and quality, as well as providing attainable goals needed to achieve better health care, lower costs, and healthier communities.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	HB 442	Delaware HB 442 (151)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David Bentz Sarah McBride	2	9	2	2022-06-02	2022-08-19	openstates	ocd-bill/cdbd2701-4c3b-41ea-ae4c-0a8589c3c4ee	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109583	700f695b8dc951535b6a326ef66d816f933ff8490383af8b8c8695355001160a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 442 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE HEALTH CARE COMMISSION AND STATE OF DELAWARE HEALTH CARE SPENDING AND QUALITY BENCHMARKS.

Delaware’s per capita health care spending consistently ranks in the top ten highest spending states and has historically outpaced economic growth in Delaware. Enhanced transparency and shared accountability for spending and quality targets have been used to accelerate changes in our health care delivery system, creating benefits for employers, state government and health care consumers. House Joint Resolution 7 of the 149th General Assembly and Executive Order Nineteen tasked the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) with the establishment of annual health care spending and quality benchmarks as a strategy to address the unsustainable growth in health care spending while also measuring aspects of health care quality. This Act serves to replace Executive Order Twenty-Five which established Delaware’s Spending and Quality Benchmark initiative in 2018. The codification of these benchmarks supports the continuation of Delaware’s Road to Value by improving the transparency of health care spending and quality, as well as providing attainable goals needed to achieve better health care, lower costs, and healthier communities.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. HA 1 to HB 442 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-02 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-13 Amendment HA 1 to HB 442 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-14 Amendment HA 1 to HB 442 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2022-06-14 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2022-06-14 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-08-19 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cdbd2701-4c3b-41ea-ae4c-0a8589c3c4ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).