Delaware House Bill 85 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on July 15 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-07-15 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill implements recommendations of the Delaware Health Care Commission and its Small Business Health Insurance Committee to reform rating rules for small employer group health insurance. A comprehensive review of the current law revealed that it is complicated, difficult to understand, and does not achieve the goal of making premiums more predictable from year to year. The bill compresses rate variations between high risk and low risk groups, reduces rating factors from seven to three, limits annual increases and decreases due to changes in health status to 15 percent, and prohibits the sale of 'stop-loss' coverage in the small group market.

An Act To Amend Title 18 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Small Employer Health Insurance.

Rep. Michael Barbieri [D]	Rep. Edward Bennett [D]	Sen. Patricia Blevins [D]	Sen. George Bunting [D]
Rep. George Carey [R]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]	Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]
Rep. Quinton Johnson [D]	Rep. Thomas Kovach [R]	Sen. Gregory Lavelle [R]	Rep. Joseph Miro [R]
Rep. William Outten [R]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]	Rep. Bryon Short [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]
Sen. Gary Simpson [R]	Sen. Robert Venables [D]	Rep. Robert Walls [D]	Sen. David Wilson [R]

2010-07-01 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2010-07-01 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 18 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2009-06-11 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-07-15		Signed by Governor
2010-07-01		Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 38 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-07-01		Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 18 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-07-01		Amendment SA 1 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2010-07-01		Amendment SA 1 - Introduced in Senate
2010-07-01		Necessary rules are suspended in Senate
2009-06-16		Assigned to Insurance Committee in Senate
2009-06-11		Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 39 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2009-06-11		Amendment HA 1 - Passed in House by Voice Vote
2009-05-12		Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2009-05-06		Reported Out of Committee (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/BANKING/INSURANCE/COMMERCE) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
2009-03-19		Introduced and Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/e7572e8790093040852575780058d448?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+85/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/c6a26fb15151e7b6852575d2007a5634?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/4a36a0f3dea28a3e85257753001cf8ab?OpenDocument
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/d50a25e5b0efbde28525775300203980?OpenDocument