Delaware health

HS 2 for HB 110, enacted as Volume 84, Chapter 402, requires specified Medicaid, private-insurance and state-employee plans to cover lawful pregnancy-termination services. Medicaid coverage has a $750 annual per-person maximum; specified private plans may apply that cap. Covered services generally have no cost sharing, with express federal-plan-status exceptions. Medicaid services use federal funds when permitted and state funds otherwise. Medicaid and state-employee provisions start January 1, 2025. Private-policy applicability follows issuance, renewal or specified policy changes after December 31, 2025. Plan coverage, network requirements, eligible religious-employer exclusions and federal-plan-status exceptions remain. Approval does not establish care delivered, actual program spending or improved health outcomes.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Abortions reported by area of occurrence · health · reviewed Delaware policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Sections 1 and 5 of this Act take effect January 1 of the year following enactment.

SJR 6 directs Medicaid and Medical Assistance officials to explore the CHIP From-Conception-to-End-of-Pregnancy option and a CHIP Health Services Initiative for postpartum coverage for people otherwise ineligible because of immigration status. It requires conclusions, analysis, relevant findings and projected implementation costs in a report due by January 1, 2026. This signed resolution requires exploration and a report; it does not enact expanded enrollment or establish submitted reports, federal approvals, delivered coverage or improved maternal and infant outcomes. The deadline passing does not prove report delivery.

Retained Delaware evidence context: People under 65 without health insurance · Residents who are foreign-born · health · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

DMMA is directed to explore creation of a CHIP Health Services Initiative (HSI) to expand postpartum coverage

HB 369, enacted as Volume 85, Chapter 468, codifies an Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety within Safety and Homeland Security. It directs intergovernmental coordination, advice on prevention and intervention, recurring-issue reporting and cooperation from relevant state agencies. The office was previously established by EO 9 on May 1, 2025. This statutory milestone does not show a second independent prevention program, a new appropriation, completed interventions or a measured reduction in gun injuries, deaths or crime.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Firearm deaths · Homicide deaths · Reported violent-crime rate · health · reviewed Delaware policy context · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

There is hereby established, within the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, an Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety

HS 2 for HB 110, enacted as Volume 84, Chapter 402, requires specified Medicaid, private-insurance and state-employee plans to cover lawful pregnancy-termination services. Medicaid coverage has a $750 annual per-person maximum; specified private plans may apply that cap. Covered services generally have no cost sharing, with express federal-plan-status exceptions. Medicaid services use federal funds when permitted and state funds otherwise. Medicaid and state-employee provisions start January 1, 2025. Private-policy applicability follows issuance, renewal or specified policy changes after December 31, 2025. Plan coverage, network requirements, eligible religious-employer exclusions and federal-plan-status exceptions remain. Approval does not establish care delivered, actual program spending or improved health outcomes.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Abortions reported by area of occurrence · health · reviewed Delaware policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Sections 1 and 5 of this Act take effect January 1 of the year following enactment.

Final amended SB 249, enacted as Volume 85, Chapter 536, establishes evidence-based licensing for harm-reduction providers, required supplies and services, participant anonymity, limited program data collection, referrals and conditional good-faith immunity. It revises drug-paraphernalia definitions and exempts specified personal-use, storage, testing and consumption supplies while retaining manufacturing, distribution and specified sales prohibitions. Signing and the bill page’s September 30 effective date are distinct from licensing regulations, provider licenses and service delivery. Immunity requires good faith and reasonable care and has express misconduct exceptions. Referrals do not guarantee housing, benefits or treatment, and the act does not decriminalize all drug possession or establish lower overdose deaths or crime rates. The chart does not isolate this action’s effect.

Retained Delaware evidence context: health · reviewed Delaware policy context · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

A program must not require a one-for-one exchange of sterile supplies.

SS 1 for SB 161, enacted as Volume 85, Chapter 461, revises behavioral-health provider licensing, oversight and enforcement. It establishes client rights and provider duties, incident reporting and investigations, protection-and-advocacy access, confidentiality and remedies. It creates specified offenses for unlawful unlicensed treatment and intentional reporting violations, with civil penalties and anti-retaliation protections. Section 11 makes sections 6, 7 and 10–12 effective immediately. Section 12 also makes sections 1–5, 8 and 9 effective immediately but sets implementation for the earlier of two years after enactment or the Director’s published notice of final implementing regulations. Licensing exemptions and lawful limits on client rights apply. Signing does not prove completed regulations, provider compliance, improved health or reduced crime. The chart does not isolate this action’s effect.

Retained Delaware evidence context: health · reviewed Delaware policy context · crime · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Sections 1 through 5, 8, and 9 of this Act are effective immediately and are to be implemented the earlier of the following:

HS 2 for HB 110, enacted as Volume 84, Chapter 402, requires specified Medicaid, private-insurance and state-employee plans to cover lawful pregnancy-termination services. Medicaid coverage has a $750 annual per-person maximum; specified private plans may apply that cap. Covered services generally have no cost sharing, with express federal-plan-status exceptions. Medicaid services use federal funds when permitted and state funds otherwise. Medicaid and state-employee provisions start January 1, 2025. Private-policy applicability follows issuance, renewal or specified policy changes after December 31, 2025. Plan coverage, network requirements, eligible religious-employer exclusions and federal-plan-status exceptions remain. Approval does not establish care delivered, actual program spending or improved health outcomes.

Retained Delaware evidence context: Abortions reported by area of occurrence · health · reviewed Delaware policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Delaware policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Sections 1 and 5 of this Act take effect January 1 of the year following enactment.