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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER."
description: "This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovarian cancer treatment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 15"
citation: "Delaware HB 15 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Bryant L. Richardson", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "John \"Jack\" Walsh", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Michael F. Smith", "Michael Ramone", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "S. Elizabeth Lockman", "Sarah McBride", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4e00546-cec5-4794-a6b7-ce9e35167d9f"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140957"
source_hash: "c9ce7ff50e37906b505dc9c33205ad1b0f1340f4a4c57ad1f95bb56d03c118e1"
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 HB 15 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER.
This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovarian cancer treatment.
## 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=140957&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB15)
2. **HA 1 to HB 15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141070&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
- S. Elizabeth Lockman — primary (person)
- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-29** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Amendment HA 1 to HB 15 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-03-19** Amendment HA 1 to HB 15 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-19** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 7 Favorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-03-21** 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/f4e00546-cec5-4794-a6b7-ce9e35167d9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).