republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/sb-164.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION.	This Act provides a one-time increase of 3% in aggregate worker’s compensation medical expenses to correct reimbursements for medical services coded as evaluation and management (E&M) for worker compensation cases. This is needed as the E&M reimbursement rate for Workers’ Compensation cases has fallen below the reimbursement rate of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services rates. This is a critical need as the State of Delaware is in critical need of physicians to accept and treat worker compensation patients.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	SB 164	Delaware SB 164 (153)	bill		enacted	Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Edward S. Osienski John "Jack" Walsh Laura V. Sturgeon Ray Seigfried Spiros Mantzavinos	1	9	2	2025-05-22	2025-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/e5f2f9c4-51e2-4fb5-bcd6-4cd120f5909e	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142390	b5abefc78e459894e672fe44816f3a90162872f17239037abe2dc7a886a7f2ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 164 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION.

This Act provides a one-time increase of 3% in aggregate worker’s compensation medical expenses to correct reimbursements for medical services coded as evaluation and management (E&M) for worker compensation cases. This is needed as the E&M reimbursement rate for Workers’ Compensation cases has fallen below the reimbursement rate of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services rates. This is a critical need as the State of Delaware is in critical need of physicians to accept and treat worker compensation patients.

Version chain

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

1. SA 1 to SB 164 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
• John "Jack" Walsh — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-22 Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-11 Amendment SA 1 to SB 164 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-06-12 Amendment SA 1 to SB 164 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT amendment-passage
• 2025-06-12 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT passage
• 2025-06-12 Assigned to Labor Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT passage
• 2025-06-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5f2f9c4-51e2-4fb5-bcd6-4cd120f5909e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).