Delaware Senate Bill 200 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-4)
Status: Passed on June 20 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-06-20 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of cancellation or nonrenewal by USPS certified mail or USPS Intelligent Mail barcode. Further, whereas currently an insurer can cancel or non-renew a policy because of two non-weather-related claims over the lifetime of the policy, this legislation provides a reasonable claims lookback period for non-weather-related claims, as is already the case for claims in other portions of this subsection of the Code. Section 2 of this bill precludes an insurance carrier from refusing to renew a homeowners policy based on non-weather claims unless 2 or more claims occur within the 36-month period immediately preceding the expiration of the current policy period.

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

Sen. David Sokola [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]
Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]	Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]	Sen. Russ Huxtable [D]
Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]	Sen. Nicole Poore [D]
Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]	Sen. David Wilson [R]	Rep. William Bush [D]
Rep. William Carson [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]	Rep. Kerri Harris [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]
Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]
Rep. Stell Parker Selby [D]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton [D]

2024-05-21 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-05-16 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2024-03-12 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-06-20		Signed by Governor
2024-05-21		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2024-05-16		Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT
2024-05-16		Amendment HA 1 to SB 200 - Passed In House by Voice Vote
2024-04-24		Amendment HA 1 to SB 200 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2024-03-19		Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2024-03-13		Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House
2024-03-12		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2024-03-12		Amendment SA 1 to SB 200 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2024-03-11		Amendment SA 1 to SB 200 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2024-01-24		Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
2024-01-04		Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140820
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140820&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB200
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocumentEngrossment?engrossmentId=36190&docTypeId=6
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#55278
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#55682
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#55692