republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-25.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE AND REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY A CHIROPRACTOR.	Chiropractic care is a drugless system of health care. It is uniquely positioned as a treatment for back pain and chronic headaches, which a peer-reviewed medical journal has indicated are alarming drivers of opioid-related deaths. Other peer-reviewed studies have indicated that chiropractic physician care reduces opioid usage rates, costs significantly less than the opioid treatment path, and contributes to preventing addiction and overdose death. In Delaware, back problems are a top-three cost driver and are among the most common conditions resulting in disability and lost productivity. This Act helps to address these issues in Delaware and improves access for Delawareans seeking opioid-free treatment by ensuring chiropractors are reimbursed at least at the level of Medicare and not at historically persistent lower rates.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 25	Delaware SB 25 (151)	bill		enacted	Bryan Townsend David Bentz Debra Heffernan Lyndon D. Yearick Sarah McBride Stephanie L. Hansen	1	8	2	2021-06-03	2021-09-10	openstates	ocd-bill/c9f3a291-fdc4-4589-8da1-1613f64e84d1	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=78822	066545c3436cba688874cdf98553f02f03e300b5bd62fc9d14c16cc73d151dcb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 25 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE AND REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY A CHIROPRACTOR.

Chiropractic care is a drugless system of health care. It is uniquely positioned as a treatment for back pain and chronic headaches, which a peer-reviewed medical journal has indicated are alarming drivers of opioid-related deaths. Other peer-reviewed studies have indicated that chiropractic physician care reduces opioid usage rates, costs significantly less than the opioid treatment path, and contributes to preventing addiction and overdose death. In Delaware, back problems are a top-three cost driver and are among the most common conditions resulting in disability and lost productivity. This Act helps to address these issues in Delaware and improves access for Delawareans seeking opioid-free treatment by ensuring chiropractors are reimbursed at least at the level of Medicare and not at historically persistent lower rates.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2/3 — 41–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• David Bentz — primary (person)
• Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
• Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — cosponsor (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin S Hensley — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
• Madinah Wilson-Anton — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Minor-Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Michael F. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Ramone — cosponsor (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-03 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-10 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2021-06-11 Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-25 Suspension of Rules in House
• 2021-06-29 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2021-09-10 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9f3a291-fdc4-4589-8da1-1613f64e84d1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).