Delaware House Bill 105 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-2)
Status: Passed on June 18 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-06-18 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [HTML]

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 patients 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.

An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Health Insurance Contracts.

Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Sen. David McBride [D]	Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Andria Bennett [D]	Rep. David Bentz [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]
Rep. Gerald Brady [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]
Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]
Rep. Sean Matthews [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. John Viola [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]

2019-05-16 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-05-09 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-06-18		Signed by Governor
2019-05-16		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2019-05-15		Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
2019-05-09		Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate
2019-05-09		Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2019-04-17		Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits
2019-04-17		Adopted in lieu of the original bill HB 105, and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47368
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47258&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB105
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47368&legislationTypeId=6&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HS1
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#40680
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#40744