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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER."
description: "This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 16"
citation: "Delaware HB 16 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "David L. Wilson", "David P. Sokola", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Laura V. Sturgeon", "Madinah Wilson-Anton", "Marie Pinkney", "Michael F. Smith", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Russell Huxtable", "Sean Matthews", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Stell Parker Selby", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b017787f-eef2-4538-a0c8-f5d8224aa81c"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140958"
source_hash: "e5f8a853867d4ba811b402921006898b1cea4230c188d3c3963340851f51c0db"
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 16 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER.
This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
## 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=140958&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB16)
2. **HA 1 to HB 16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141444&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
## Votes
- SM — **210** (pass) · upper
- SM — **390** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — 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)
- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
- Russell Huxtable — 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`
- **2024-03-19** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 16 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-11** Amendment HA 1 to HB 16 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-11** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-11** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-18** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-10-09** 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/b017787f-eef2-4538-a0c8-f5d8224aa81c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).