republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-200.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROPERTY INSURANCE CONTRACTS.	This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners’ notices of cancellation or nonrenewal by USPS certified mail or USPS Intelligent Mail barcode. Further, whereas currently an insurer can cancel or non-renew a policy because of two non-weather-related claims over the lifetime of the policy, this legislation provides a reasonable claims lookback period for non-weather-related claims, as is already the case for claims in other portions of this subsection of the Code. Section 2 of this bill precludes an insurance carrier from refusing to renew a homeowners’ policy based on non-weather claims unless 2 or more claims occur within the 36-month period immediately preceding the expiration of the current policy period.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 200	Delaware SB 200 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn 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 Nicole Poore Paul S. Baumbach Peter C. Schwartzkopf Russell Huxtable Sean Matthews Sherry Dorsey Walker Spiros Mantzavinos Stell Parker Selby William Bush William J. Carson	3	12	3	2024-01-04	2024-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/85028d52-5f6a-4f3e-bc62-05bbd7611019	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140820	ab87f3da05f3eb2346c9116e4f1c97d047289d7b0e5f8deab31efffe482beb82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 200 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PROPERTY INSURANCE CONTRACTS.

This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners’ notices of cancellation or nonrenewal by USPS certified mail or USPS Intelligent Mail barcode. Further, whereas currently an insurer can cancel or non-renew a policy because of two non-weather-related claims over the lifetime of the policy, this legislation provides a reasonable claims lookback period for non-weather-related claims, as is already the case for claims in other portions of this subsection of the Code. Section 2 of this bill precludes an insurance carrier from refusing to renew a homeowners’ policy based on non-weather claims unless 2 or more claims occur within the 36-month period immediately preceding the expiration of the current policy period.

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 SB 200 (committee substitute) — source
3. SA 1 to SB 200 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — 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)
• Nicole Poore — primary (person)
• Paul S. Baumbach — primary (person)
• Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sean Matthews — primary (person)
• Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
• William Bush — primary (person)
• William J. Carson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-03-11 Amendment SA 1 to SB 200 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-12 Amendment SA 1 to SB 200 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2024-03-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-03-13 Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-03-19 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-24 Amendment HA 1 to SB 200 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2024-05-16 Amendment HA 1 to SB 200 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2024-05-16 Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT passage
• 2024-05-21 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2024-06-20 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85028d52-5f6a-4f3e-bc62-05bbd7611019. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).