This page lists health care related and health care industry related
legislation, as tracked by the Delaware Healthcare Association.
| Bill Number |
Description |
Status |
|
SB
17 |
Creates a Statewide Health Insurance Purchasing Pool
to allow individuals and small business to obtain the
most favorable premiums possible from the private insurance
market. |
Senate -
Health & Social Services Committee |
|
SB 18 |
Removes
the provision that participants in the Delaware Healthy
Children's Program (CHIP) pay a premium to participate,
while allowing DHSS to consider instituting minimal
co-payments for health service in order to recover a portion of
the revenue lost due to the absence of premium payments.
Also see HB 22 & HB 139. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB
44 |
Amends
Title 16 of the Delaware Code regarding Delaware's
Health Record Privacy Statute to allow protected health
information to be released for specific health research purposes
while still adhering to the Federal HIPAA Regulations. |
Senate - Out
of Committee |
|
SB
64 |
Expands
Delaware's Public Assistance Code to provide urgent and
preventative dental care for eligible Medicaid recipients who
are pregnant or become pregnant while receiving
assistance. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB
66 with SA 1 |
Establishes a Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
Prevention Program within the Division of Public
Health. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB
80 with SA 1, SA 2, SA 3, and SA 4 |
Creates
the Delaware Health Consortium charged with
implementing the operating of the Statewide health information
network. Note: This is not the Delaware Health
Information Network (DHIN). |
Senate - Laid
on Table |
|
SB
81 with SA 5 |
Requires chain restaurants to properly and completely label food
choices with important nutritional information. |
Senate -
Passed
House - Economic Development/ Banking/
Insurance/
Commerce Committee |
|
SB
94 |
Creates an
exception to the State's criminal laws to permit
doctor-advised medical use of marijuana by patients with serious
medical conditions. |
Senate - Out
of Committee |
|
SB
113 |
Creates a
procedure by which youth exiting the foster care system
in Delaware and who are provided services under the
John H. Chafee Independence Act and/or the Fostering Connections
and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, have a legal mechanism for
Family Court to review the appropriateness of such services.
The bill also specifically limits any findings on the
reasonableness of the services offered and coordinated by the
Delaware Division of Services for Children, Youth, and Their
Families (DSCYF) to the youth, including financial, housing,
medical, employment, training, education, and other
appropriations made to or by the State of Delaware for this
purpose. The bill also allows ongoing representation of
the youth by the Office of the Child Advocate or the
Court-Appointed Special Advocate program. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB
120 |
Amends
Title 31 of the Delaware Code relating to the Delaware Health
Security Act. The bill provides for a single payer
health care system. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB
122 |
Requires all Delaware Psychiatric Center employees providing
direct care to patients be subject to criminal background checks
and drug testing. The drug testing provides for
both pre-employment testing and testing where reasonable
suspicion that an individual is impaired by an illegal drug
exists. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB 162 |
Amends
Title 30 relating to Pharmacies. The bill
creates an assessment of 2% of gross receipts from any pharmacy
in Delaware not participating in the Medicaid program and
requires all funds collected to be deposited into a fund
dedicated to Medicaid related expenses. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB
169 |
Makes
obstructing ingress to or egress from a health care
facility a Class B misdemeanor. |
Senate -
Passed
House - Judiciary Committee |
|
SB
172 |
Provides an exemption from activities considered within the
scope of nursing for assisting HIV/AIDS patients
residing in residential group homes with self
administration of medication, provided the person has
successfully completed a Board-approved medication training
program. The bill would enable CNAs to perform this needed
function. |
Awaiting Governor's
Signature |
|
SB 182 |
Amends
Title 24 relating to Nursing. The bill
prohibits the use of the title "Nurse" unless such person is a
registered nurse or licensed practical nurse. It also
includes limits, titles, and abbreviations for advanced practice
nurses. |
Senate -
Passed
House - Health & Human Development Committee |
|
SB 196 |
State Budget for Fiscal Year 2011. |
Senate -
Finance Committee |
|
SB 201 |
Amends
Title 16, Chapter 99, of the Delaware Code relating to the
Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN).
Establishes the DHIN as a not-for-profit, public/private
corporation. |
Senate -
Public Safety Committee |
|
SR
12 |
The
Resolution requests the Delaware Health Information
Network (DHIN) to provide to the Governor and the
General Assembly a report containing suggested
legislation by January 10, 2010, on an operation model of
governance and financial sustainability model for DHIN. |
Senate -
Health & Social Services Committee |
To view the bill and the current status, click on the bill number.
| Bill Number |
Description |
Status |
|
HB 3 with HA 1 |
Adds a
representative from the Delaware Health Care Facilities
Association to the Hospital Infection Advisory Board. |
House - Passed
Senate - Health & Social Services Committee |
|
HB 5 with HA 1 |
Adds
language to prohibit discrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation to Titles 6, 9, 18, 19, 25, and 29
of the Delaware Code. Also see SB 121. |
House - Passed
Senate - Executive Committee |
|
HB
6 |
Requires
the Secretary of DHSS to implement a mandatory dress code for
all Department employees working at the Delaware
Psychiatric Center (DPC) within one year of the date of
enactment of this bill. |
House - Health
& Human Development Committee |
|
HB
10 |
Makes the
same-sex partner of a State of Delaware regular officer,
employee, or eligible pensioner entitled to the same benefits
that are provided to spouses of the State employees and
pensioners. Employees of Labor Unions, Delaware
Authorities, and Commissions covered under the sections of the
Code are also covered. |
House -
Appropriations Committee |
|
HB
18 |
Amends
Title 19, Chapter 7, of the Delaware Code regarding
Employment at Will and Protection from Wrongful Termination. |
House - Out of
Committee |
|
HB
22 |
Extends
Delaware's Healthy Children Program to include
reduced-cost health insurance coverage for children of families
with personal incomes up to 300% of the Federal Poverty Level.
Also see SB 18 & HB 139. |
House -
Appropriations Committee |
|
HB
24 |
Ensure all
hazardous waste generated in this State is
treated, stored, or disposed of in a safe manner that is
protective of public health and environment, and in accordance
to all existing and future Federal standards. The bill
also prevents hazardous waste generated in this State from being
sent outside of the United States to countries where health and
environmental standards may not be equal to standards in this
country. |
House -
Natural Resources Committee |
|
HB
28 with HA 1 |
Allows
Physician's Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to report
to the Department of Motor Vehicle persons whose mental or
physical conditions may interfere with the safe operation of a
motor vehicle. |
House - Passed
Senate - Out of Committee |
|
HB
35 |
Requires the Director of the Delaware Psychiatric Center (DPC)
to be a Board-Certified Psychiatrist and/or a Master's level
Nurse Administrator with administrative experience in
behavioral health and hospital administration. |
House - Health
& Human Development Committee |
|
HB
37 with HA 2 |
Adds
protections to the Mental Health Patient's Bill of
Rights Act, including safeguards in administration of
restraint and requirement of an enhanced patient grievance
system for Delaware Psychiatric Center (DPC)
patients. |
House - Passed
Senate - Executive Committee |
|
HB
41 |
Establishes a Community Mental Health Treatment Act
with rights paralleling those of patients in the
substance abuse treatment system complied with Title 16, Chapter
22 of the Delaware Code. |
House - Health
& Human Development Committee |
|
HB
42 |
Creates
the Delaware Psychiatric Center (DPC) Authority
and removes DPC from the purview of the Delaware Department of
Health and Social Services. |
House - Health
& Human Development Committee |
|
HB
60 |
Amends
Title 14 of the Delaware Code limiting artificial trans
fats in food available or served to students in public schools,
including charter schools. |
House - Passed
Senate - Finance Committee |
|
HB
62 with HA 3 |
Crease a
class B felony for the crime of brandishing a deadly
weapon against a law enforcement officer, firefighter,
paramedic, or emergency medical technician. |
House - Passed
Senate - Out of Committee |
|
HB
64 |
Enables
small businesses in the State, such as school bus contracting
businesses, to participate in the State Group Health
Insurance Program at no cost to the State, effective
July 1, 2009. |
House - Out of
Committee |
|
HB
85 with HA 1 |
Amends
Title 18 of the Delaware Code relating to small employer
health insurance to compress rate variations, reduce
rating factors, limits annual increases, and decreases dues to
changes in health status to 15 percent, and prohibits the sale
of stop-loss coverage in the small group market. |
House - Passed
Senate - Insurance Committee |
|
HB
92 with HA 1 |
Defines a
new class of occupational license for direct care
workers and provides for the license fees of such
direct care workers to be reduced, if the gross receipts of such
direct care workers for the 12 months, beginning July 1and
ending June 30, preceding the year of license application or
renewal are less than $10,000 or direct care workers would be
exempted if they are employed by or under contract with a
Personal Assistance Services Agency (PASA). |
House - Passed
Senate - Finance Committee |
|
HB
137 |
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to arrange for random audits
of small business health insurance carriers doing
business in Delaware. |
House - Out of
Committee |
|
HB
159 with HA 1, HA 1 to HA 1, & HA 2 |
Requires the Delaware Department of Health and Social
Services to adopt regulations requiring at least one
hour of training annually for certified, licensed, or registered
healthcare providers, as well as for healthcare
providers who are partially or fully funded by the State,
who provide services to persons diagnosed as having
Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, or with mental
illness. |
House - Passed
Senate - Finance Committee |
|
HB
163 with HA 1 |
Creates a Death Review Committee for the Department of Health
and Social Services (DHSS) to assess deaths of
individuals receiving residential services through DHSS or
funded private providers. The purpose of the Committee is
to assess causation; promote improvements in policies,
practices, and the service delivery system; and reduce prospects
for preventable deaths. Also see HB 34
and HB 38. |
House - Passed
Senate - Executive Committee |
|
HB
184 with HA 1, HA 2, & HA 3 |
Requires all independent unlicensed clinical social work
practitioners in Delaware to obtain a licensed for continued
practice of social work. Also see
HB 125. |
Awaiting Governor's
Signature |
|
HB
195 |
Amends
Title 10 of the Delaware Code relating to personal actions.
The purpose of the bill is to encourage physicians to
provide medical care without compensation in an effort to
provide some relief to those Delawareans who are without medical
insurance and except for such service might be forced
to seek medical attention in hospital emergency rooms. |
House - Health
& Human Development Committee |
|
HB
202 |
Amends
Title 18, Chapter 44, of the Delaware Code with the intent of
implementing changes to the Delaware Life and Health
Insurance Guaranty Association Act to ensure in a
liquidation of a life and/or health insurance company licensed
in Delaware that procedures are in place to ensure an organized
liquidation of such company with appropriate protections for the
policy holders of such company. |
Awaiting Governor's
Signature |
|
HB
213 |
Requires all Delaware licensed businesses for which a business
license is required to make such license information part of
their advertising. |
House -
Economic Development/
Banking/
Insurance/
Commerce Committee |
|
HB
219 |
Amends
Title 31 of the Delaware Code relating to the State Public
Assistance Code to make chiropractic manipulation of the
spine to correct subluxation eligible for reimbursement. |
House - Health
& Human Development Committee |
|
HB
231 |
Grants working parents with 16 hours of leave each school year
to attend school meetings essential to their child's education,
provided the meeting cannot be scheduled during non-working
hours. |
House
Education Committee |
|
HB
235 |
Grants the
Board of Pharmacy the authority to establish standards
and procedures for the collection, distribution, return, and
redistribution of previously dispensed medications. |
House - Health
& Human Development Committee |
|
HB
237 |
Requires all newly constructed businesses and other places of
public accommodations to be equipped with automatic doors
to make the main entrance of such buildings accessible to
persons with disabilities. |
House -
Economic Development/
Banking/
Insurance/
Commerce Committee |
|
HB
247 |
Amends
Titles 6, 25, and 29 of the Delaware Code relating to
Consumer Protection. |
House -
Judiciary Committee |
|
HB
248 |
Amends
Title 6 of the Delaware Code relating to the Delaware
Charitable/Fraternal Solicitation Act of 1996. |
House -
Economic Development/
Banking/
Insurance/
Commerce Committee |
|
HB
249 |
Requires a
pharmacy to provide pharmacy records to persons who
request their records. |
Awaiting Governor's
Signature |
|
HB
285 |
Amends
Title 12 of the Delaware Code relating to Escheat.
The bill provides an appeal process and a statute of limitations
on escheat actions. |
House -
Revenue & Finance Committee |
|
HB
297 with HA 1 |
Amends Title 8 of the Delaware Code relating to the Delaware General
Corporation Law. This
bill confirms existing statutes and practices related to the
administration of the
corporation franchise tax. |
Awaiting Governor's
Signature |
|
HB
298 |
The bill prohibits the use of hand
held cell telephones by the driver of a motor vehicle while the
vehicle is in motion on
Delaware
highways. A civil
penalty is created.
|
House - Public
Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
|
HB
299 |
Amends Title 11 of the Delaware Code relating to specific offences.
The bill includes
emergency medical technicians, fire police, fire marshals, and
paramedics acting in the lawful performance of duty
to the group of first
responders listed as special victims for assaults in the first
degree and assault in the second degree.
|
House - Out of Committee |
|
HB
302 |
Amends Title 10 of the Delaware Code relating to
reporting financial exploitation of the elderly and infirm.
Under the bill, anyone who makes a good faith report to
law enforcement authorities of such suspected activity is immune
from criminal and civil liability for making that report.
|
House -
Judiciary Committee |
|
HB 304 |
Amends Title 11 relating to specific offenses. The
provides that a person who stands in a position of trust,
authority, or supervision over a child who is at least 16 years
old, but not yet 18 years old and intentionally engages in
sexual intercourse or sexual penetration with such child, or an
invitee or designee of such person shall have committed the
offense of Rape in the 3rd degree, which is a
class B felony. |
House -
Out of Committee |
|
HB 315 |
Amends Title 21 relating to driving a vehicle while
under the influence by requiring mandatory use of
ignition interlock devices, participation in victim's
interaction sessions for first-time offenders, in-patient
substance abuse treatment, continuous remote alcohol monitoring,
and ongoing substance abuse testing for second-time offenders. |
House - Public
Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
|
HB 323 |
Amends Title 12 of the Delaware Code regarding the
disposition of a persons last remains. This bill
applies to military service members. |
House -
Veterans Affairs Committee. |
|
HB 325 |
State Bond & Capital Improvements Act for Fiscal Year
2011. |
House -
Capital Infrastructure Committee |
|
HB 326 |
Amends Title 18 relating to healthcare medical
negligence insurance and litigation. The bill
clarifies that civil actions based on sexual abuse of a patient
by a healthcare provider may be filed at any time after the
commission of the abuse. The bill also creates a 2-year
look back provision in cases of abuse which was unknown and
could not reasonably have been discovered by the patient. |
House -
Economic Development/
Banking/
Insurance/
Commerce Committee |
|
HCR
1 |
Urges
Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act,
which removes the secret ballot vote in choosing to form or not
form a union. Also see HR 19. |
House
- Sticken |
|
HCR
2 with HA 1 & HA 2 |
Urges
Congress and the President to enact the National Health
Insurance Act. |
House - Out of
Committee |
|
HR
19 |
Urges
Congress not to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
Also see HCR 1. |
House - House
Administration Committee |