republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/hb-60.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18, 29, AND 31 RELATING TO BREAST CANCER SCREENING AND DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES."
description: "To prevent Delawareans from facing exorbitant costs for potentially life-saving screenings and follow-up tests, and to allow providers to use clinical judgement in the use of breast cancer examination tools based on established national standards, this Act requires that all insurance policies issued or renewed in this State include coverage of supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations on terms that are at least as favorable as the coverage of annual screening mammograms. The Act covers all group, blanket, and individual health insurance policies (except specified accident, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, long-term care or other limited benefit health insurance policies) as well as the State employee healthcare plan and Medicaid."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 60"
citation: "Delaware HB 60 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Bryan Townsend", "Cyndie Romer", "Darius J. Brown", "David L. Wilson", "Edward S. Osienski", "Eric Morrison", "Kendra Johnson", "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", "Trey Paradee", "Valerie Longhurst", "William Bush", "William J. Carson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-05-16"
last_action: "2023-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff7ca240-7739-479a-9ab5-76b93efe811b"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140402"
source_hash: "a5307dd34d60bd197bd6bd01c8f5946c4002016d9fe9a3b99bfe4439f8bb8180"
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 60 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 18, 29, AND 31 RELATING TO BREAST CANCER SCREENING AND DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES.

To prevent Delawareans from facing exorbitant costs for potentially life-saving screenings and follow-up tests, and to allow providers to use clinical judgement in the use of breast cancer examination tools based on established national standards, this Act requires that all insurance policies issued or renewed in this State include coverage of supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations on terms that are at least as favorable as the coverage of annual screening mammograms. The Act covers all group, blanket, and individual health insurance policies (except specified accident, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, long-term care or other limited benefit health insurance policies) as well as the State employee healthcare plan and Medicaid.

## 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=140402&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1forHB60)
2. **HA 1 to HS 1 for HB 60** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=140486&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
- Darius J. Brown — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Edward S. Osienski — primary (person)
- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
- Kendra Johnson — 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)
- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)
- William J. Carson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-16** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 60, and Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-01** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-06-06** Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-15** Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-06-15** Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-06-15** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-21** Assigned to Finance Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Suspension of Rules in Senate
- **2023-06-21** Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2023-07-26** 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/ff7ca240-7739-479a-9ab5-76b93efe811b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).