Delaware Senate Bill 32 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-2)
Status: Passed on August 14 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-08-14 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

This Act prohibits the practice known as patient brokering, which is the practice where patient brokers are paid a fee to place insured people in treatment centers so that the treatment centers receive thousands of dollars in insurance claim payments for each patient. Increasingly, patient brokers fraudulently enroll patients in low-deductible health plans with out-of-network treatment benefits. Patient brokers target individuals with substance use disorders, who are told that they are receiving their treatment through a scholarship. Not only does this perpetrate fraud against insurers, when insurance plans are terminated for nonpayment of the premium, individuals are discharged from the treatment program with no services or housing and often in a state that is far from home.

An Act To Amend Title 6 Of The Delaware Code Relating Patient Brokering.

Sen. Darius Brown [D]	Rep. David Bentz [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Sen. Anthony Delcollo [R]
Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. David Lawson [R]	Sen. David Sokola [D]
Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Andria Bennett [D]
Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Quinton Johnson [D]
Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. Raymond Seigfried [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]

2019-06-30 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-04-18 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-08-14		Signed by Governor
2019-06-30		Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2019-05-15		Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits
2019-05-02		Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House
2019-04-18		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2019-04-18		Amendment SA 1 to SB 32 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2019-04-16		Amendment SA 1 to SB 32 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2019-04-10		Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits
2019-03-14		Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business & Insurance Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47202
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47202&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB32
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocumentEngrossment?engrossmentId=23447&docTypeId=6
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#40613
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#41296