Delaware Senate Bill 142 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on June 14 2016 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-06-15 - Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
Pending: House Health & Human Development Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Bill expands Delaware’s Public Assistance Code to provide preventative and urgent dental care to all eligible Medicaid recipients. Payments for preventative or urgent dental care treatments shall be subject to a $10.00 recipient co-pay and the total amount of dental care assistance provided to an eligible recipient shall not exceed $1,000.00 per year, except that an additional $1,500.00 may be authorized on an emergency basis for urgent dental care treatments through a review process established by the State Dental DirectorBegin Synopsis Here

An Act To Amend Title 31 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Preventative And Urgent Dental Care For Medicaid Recipients.

Sen. Bethany Hall-Long [D]	Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. Joseph Miro [R]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]
Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-06-15	House	Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
2016-06-14	Senate	Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 11 YES 5 NO 5 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2015-06-24	Senate	Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
2015-06-16	Senate	Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/8bad7c4360dd65ab85257dcc00700d32?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+142/$file/legis.html?open