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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRACTS."
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description: "Step therapy protocols are a mechanism by which health insurance companies require patients to try one or more prescriptions drugs before coverage is provided for the actual drug prescribed by the patient’s health care provider. This Act creates a Step Therapy Exception Process whereby patients who are required by their insurance company to go through step therapy protocols can, under certain circumstances, bypass step therapy to obtain the initially-prescribed medication. This Act does not apply to state or federal governmental plans."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "150"
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identifier: "HB 105"
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citation: "Delaware HB 105 (150)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David B. McBride", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nicole Poore"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 7
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2019-04-17"
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last_action: "2019-06-18"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c5b24cf-53ed-461a-9864-b08750858fb8"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47368"
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source_hash: "8d65509dcdd35446fc228635c259787075bf49d2c404167da69784624e423330"
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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 105 (150) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRACTS.
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Step therapy protocols are a mechanism by which health insurance companies require patients to try one or more prescriptions drugs before coverage is provided for the actual drug prescribed by the patient’s health care provider. This Act creates a Step Therapy Exception Process whereby patients who are required by their insurance company to go through step therapy protocols can, under certain circumstances, bypass step therapy to obtain the initially-prescribed medication. This Act does not apply to state or federal governmental plans.
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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=47368&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1)
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## Votes
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- SM — **40–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- David B. McBride — primary (person)
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- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
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- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
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- Andria L. Bennett — cosponsor (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Bryan Townsend — cosponsor (person)
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- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
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- David P. Sokola — cosponsor (person)
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- Debra Heffernan — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward S. Osienski — cosponsor (person)
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- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
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- Gerald L. Brady — cosponsor (person)
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- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
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- John J. Viola — cosponsor (person)
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- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
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- Sherry Dorsey Walker — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie T. Bolden — cosponsor (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
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- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
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- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-04-17** Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 105, and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-17** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-05-09** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2019-05-09** Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2019-05-15** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-05-16** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2019-06-18** 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/3c5b24cf-53ed-461a-9864-b08750858fb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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