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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER."
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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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "152"
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identifier: "HB 16"
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citation: "Delaware HB 16 (152)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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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"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-02-29"
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last_action: "2024-10-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b017787f-eef2-4538-a0c8-f5d8224aa81c"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140958"
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source_hash: "e5f8a853867d4ba811b402921006898b1cea4230c188d3c3963340851f51c0db"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HB 16 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 29 AND 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140958&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB16)
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2. **HA 1 to HB 16** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141444&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **39–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
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- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
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- Madinah Wilson-Anton — primary (person)
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- Marie Pinkney — primary (person)
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- Michael F. Smith — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Sean Matthews — primary (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
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- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
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- William Bush — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-02-29** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-13** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-03-19** Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 16 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2024-05-22** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-06-11** Amendment HA 1 to HB 16 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2024-06-11** Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2024-06-11** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-18** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-18** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2024-10-09** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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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).
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