| HB 20 | Signed | Vanderwende | This bill raises the threshold limit requiring a Building and Loan Association to obtain federal deposit insurance from $7 million to $10 million dollars. This amount was last raised in 2005. The State Bank Commissioner is okay with this change. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 5 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION INSURANCE REGULATION. |
| HB 24 w/ HA 1 | Signed | Bennett | This Act would prohibit insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from engaging in the practice of "clawbacks". When the total cost of a prescription drug to an insurer or pharmacy benefits manager is less than a patient's co-pay, the insurer or pharmacy benefits manager keeps the difference in a practice known as a "clawback".
According to a March 2018 report issued by the University of Southern California's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics based on the Center’s analysis of 2013 data from a large commercial insurer combined with data on national average drug reimbursements, almost 25% of filled pharmacy prescriptions involved a patient co-payment that exceeded the average reimbursement paid by the insurer by more than $2.00. The report further noted that overpayments were more likely to occur on claims for generic drugs than brand drugs and that the total overpayments in the Center’s sample amounted to $135 million. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COPAYMENT OR COINSURANCE FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. |
| HB 71 w/ HA 1 | Signed | Chukwuocha | This Bill authorizes the Division of Professional Regulation to charge a registration fee to Appraisal Management Companies for reporting them to the National Registry. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE COUNCIL ON REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS. |
| HS 1 for HB 67 | Signed | D. Short | This bill provides changes to Section 25 of the City of Seaford Charter relating to tax assessments. The assessor will provide an alphabetical list of the assessment within 30 days of the assessment. The Tax Assessor has 45 days after the appeal hearing to make a recommendation. The Board of Revision's decision will be by certified mail to the property owner within 7 days of the meeting. It also reorganizes Chapter 27 of the City of Seaford Charter to make the process consistent with State Code and easier to follow. In addition, the changes allow the City of Seaford to collect a Lodging Tax of no more than 3 percent of the rent, in addition to the amount imposed by the State, for any room or rooms in a hotel, motel, or tourist home located within the boundaries of the City of Seaford.
| AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SEAFORD RELATING TO TAXATION AND COLLECTION. |
| HA 1 to HB 24 | Passed | Bennett | This Amendment:
(1) Replaces “retail price” with language requiring that a carrier not impose a copayment or coinsurance requirement that exceeds the lesser of one of the following: (i) the applicable copayment or coinsurance that would apply for the prescription drug in the absence of this section; (ii) the amount an individual would pay for the prescription drug if the individual were paying the usual and customary price; or (iii) the contract price for the prescription drug.
(2) Provides a definition of “contract price” in place of the definition of “retail price”.
(3) Adds a definition of “pharmacy” based on its use in the definition of “contract price”. | |
| HB 88 | Signed | Carson | This legislation removes the automatic suspension of a driver’s license for failure to provide proof of insurance. The Division of Motor vehicles will continue to suspend the registration of the uninsured vehicle. The removal of the automatic license suspension will allow the vehicle owner to get to work, keep a job, so that the driver will be able to obtain vehicle insurance. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES. |
| HB 89 | Signed | Matthews | This bill updates the members of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Advisory Committee to include additional stakeholders, and directs the Committee to report to the General Assembly on the effectiveness of the Act, ways to improve the Act, and other measures that should be taken by the State of Delaware to prevent lead poisoning in children. | AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT. |
| SCR 18 | Passed | Cloutier | This Resolution recognizes April 2019 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Delaware. | RECOGNIZING APRIL 2019 AS CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH IN DELAWARE. |
| HA 1 to HB 71 | Passed | Chukwuocha | This Amendment changes the vote requirement for this bill to a three-fifths vote. | |
