Delaware House Bill 442 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Passed on August 19 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-08-19 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Delawares per capita health care spending consistently ranks in the top ten highest spending states and has historically outpaced economic growth in Delaware. Enhanced transparency and shared accountability for spending and quality targets have been used to accelerate changes in our health care delivery system, creating benefits for employers, state government and health care consumers. House Joint Resolution 7 of the 149th General Assembly and Executive Order Nineteen tasked the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) with the establishment of annual health care spending and quality benchmarks as a strategy to address the unsustainable growth in health care spending while also measuring aspects of health care quality. This Act serves to replace Executive Order Twenty-Five which established Delawares Spending and Quality Benchmark initiative in 2018. The codification of these benchmarks supports the continuation of Delawares Road to Value by improving the transparency of health care spending and quality, as well as providing attainable goals needed to achieve better health care, lower costs, and healthier communities.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Health Care Commission And State Of Delaware Health Care Spending And Quality Benchmarks.

Rep. David Bentz [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]
Sen. David Sokola [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]

2022-06-23 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-06-14 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-08-19		Signed by Governor
2022-06-23		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2022-06-22		Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
2022-06-14		Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate
2022-06-14		Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2022-06-14		Amendment HA 1 to HB 442 - Passed In House by Voice Vote
2022-06-13		Amendment HA 1 to HB 442 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2022-06-08		Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
2022-06-02		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House

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Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=109583&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB442
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocumentEngrossment?engrossmentId=25327&docTypeId=6
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53436
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#53659