Delaware Senate Bill 139 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: Passed on June 29 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-06-29 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act eliminates the need to file a lawsuit against a person, who has caused injury with the person's vehicle, when that person's liability insurer has offered the limits of liability coverage to the injured person and the injured persons underinsured motorist insurer either consents to the settlement or fails to timely reply to the request for permission to settle. The goal of this Act is to have fewer lawsuits filed merely to obtain permission to accept liability insurers' offer to settle a claim. This Act is not intended to require any person to seek permission from an underinsured motorist insurer to resolve a bodily injury claim.

An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Underinsurance Motorist Coverage.

Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]	Rep. William Bush [D]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]
Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]
Rep. Jeffrey Spiegelman [R]

2023-06-21 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-06-08 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-06-29		Signed by Governor
2023-06-21		Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT
2023-06-20		Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
2023-06-08		Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House
2023-06-08		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2023-06-07		Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2023-05-19		Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate

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Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140446
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140446&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB139
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#54546
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#54781