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HA1TOHB205 • 2025

This Amendment removes the language in H.B.

This Amendment removes the language in H.B.

Healthcare
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Romer
Last action
2025-06-17
Official status
Passed 6/17/25
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Amendment Expanding Insurance Protections for Healthcare Providers

This amendment removes language limiting protections to professional liability insurance, so insurers cannot raise prices or take negative action against providers offering legal reproductive health services to out-of-state patients.

What This Bill Does

  • Removes the limit that applied only to professional liability insurance policies.
  • Prohibits insurers from raising premiums on any policy issued to a healthcare provider for providing legal reproductive health services to individuals from other states.
  • Stops insurers from taking adverse action against providers who assist in these services.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Healthcare professionals and organizations
  • Insurance companies issuing policies

Terms To Know

Adverse actions
Steps an insurer takes such as increasing premiums or other negative measures against a provider.
Reproductive health services
Healthcare services defined in Section 1702 of Title 24 that are legal in this state for out-of-state individuals.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The official text does not specify an effective date.
  • Protections apply only to services that are legal within the state, even if provided to patients from other states.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-17 Delaware General Assembly

    Passed In House by Voice Vote

  2. 2025-06-10 Delaware General Assembly

    Introduced and Placed With Bill

Official Summary Text

This Amendment removes the language in H.B. 205 that limited the scope of Section 2535 of Title 18 to professional liability insurance only.

Current Bill Text

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Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Romer

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

HOUSE BILL NO. 205

AMEND House Bill No. 205 on line 120 by deleting lines 120 through 128 in their entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

Ҥ 2535. Adverse actions on policies relating to

the

provision of

medical care for termination of pregnancy.

healthcare services.

No insurer may, in issuing or renewing an insurance policy to a

health-care

healthcare

professional or

health-care

healthcare

organization, increase the premium on such policy or take other adverse action against any

health-care

healthcare

professional or

health-care

healthcare

organization

who

because the healthcare professional or healthcare organization

performs or assists in the provision of

reproductive health

healthcare

services, as that term is defined in § 1702 of Title 24, that is legal in this State to an individual who is from out of the state. This section applies to a policy that covers any medical professional who prescribes medication for the termination of human pregnancy to an out-of-state patient by means of telehealth.”.

SYNOPSIS

This Amendment removes the language in H.B. 205 that limited the scope of Section 2535 of Title 18 to professional liability insurance only.