| HB232 | Pass | This Act would both raise the jurisdictional limit of the Justice of the Peace Court to $25,000 and allow Justice of the Peace to consider claims in excess of the jurisdictional limit where the underlying matter involves a commercial tenancy and poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB351 | Pass | Prior to the pandemic occasioned by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), approximately 500 initial unemployment claims were filed in Delaware each week. Between March 15 and May 30, 2020, the Department of Labor received over 100,000 initial claims, bri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB335 | Pass | This Act amends Delawares probate code by adding a new section to provide restricted access to a decedents safe deposit box located in a financial institution and held in the decedents sole name, for the limited purpose of retrieving the decedents la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB353 | Pass | This Act would ensure that employers are not charged for the benefit wages of employees who they had to terminate, furlough, or lay off due to the economic shutdown needed to respond to the COVID-19 public health crisis. The intention of the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB350 | Pass | This Act creates the crime of Aggravated Strangulation. A person is guilty of Aggravated Strangulation if the person is a law-enforcement officer, and while acting within the persons official capacity as a law-enforcement officer, knowingly or intent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB237 | Pass | This Act eliminates the requirement that movie theaters selling alcohol have video cameras in each auditorium and the requirement that an employee must pass through each auditorium during a movie showing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB331 | Pass | This bill deletes an unnecessary restriction relating to amending the Sussex County budget. No similar provision is applicable to the Kent or New Castle County budget process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB334 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act addresses statutes under Chapter 33 of Title 12 and (i) amends section 3330 by adding subsections (c) and (d)to make explicit in subsection (a) of section 3330 the applicability dates that were intended to be carried over from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB355 | Pass | This Act creates the 17-person Behavioral Health Planning and Advisory Council to the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health and ensures the Council will satisfy the requirements of Title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-4(...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB269 | Pass | Under the current language of Section 2.301, it is unclear what constitutes a "term" when computing term limits and determining a potential candidate's eligibility when they have previously filled a vacancy on the Council. By adding the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB297 | Pass | This Act amends the City of Seaford's Charter (Charter) as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB345 | Pass | Due to the public health emergency caused by COVID-19, several legislative task forces and committees have not been able to fulfill the reporting requirements of the task forces or committees enabling legislation and need additional time to complete ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB318 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a curriculum on the Holocaust and genocide for students in grades 6 through 12. Teaching the lessons learned from the Holocaust and other genocides helps cultivate the spirit of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB214 | Pass | This Act supports veterinarians in their effort to protect people from rabies and to ensure the welfare of animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB354 | Pass | This Act requires statutorily designated health providers to provide medical certifications of death, for death certificates, electronically and for the death certificates to be electronically filed with the Delaware Vital Events Registration System ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB348 | Pass | House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 348 differs from HB 348 in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB349 | Pass | This bill codifies portions of the Second and Nineteenth Modifications of the Governor's Declaration of State of Emergency due to COVID-19 concerning food and drink establishments. Food and drink establishments suffered great losses since March, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB343 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB344 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB341 | Pass | Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited partnership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB342 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB352 | Pass | This Act extends provisions in the First and Twentieth Modifications to the Declaration of a State of Emergency due to a Public Health Threat which authorize the Delaware Secretary of Labor to issue emergency rules amending the Delaware Unemployment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB263 | Pass | This Act requires that individual, group, and State employee insurance plans cap the amount an individual must pay for insulin prescriptions at $100 a month and must include at least 1 formulation of insulin on the lowest tier of the drug formulary d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB347 | Pass | This Act continues in effect a provision contained in the Sixth Modification of the Declaration of a State of emergency for the State of Delaware Due to a Public Health Threat issued on March 24, 2020 which allows the Director of Management and Budge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB346 | Pass | This Act provides for voting by mail for the 2020 primary and general elections and special elections held under the provisions of Chapter 73 of Title 15 due to the emergency caused by COVID-19, a highly contagious virus. Voting by mail is an alterna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Time is money. The time and delay associated with the review of land use projects is often a factor in determining whether a potential employer will come to Delaware. This Act, the Bring New Jobs to Delaware Act, is intended to provide an expedited r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill adds God's Way Ministries Inc. to the list of not-for-profit organizations exempt from real property taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware received significant funding from the federal government under the CARES Act to address economic harm caused by the Covid-19 public health emergency. This Act recognizes the undue economic harm small businesses faced during the State of Emer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To House Administration Committee |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is intended to make it easier for businesses and homeowner associations to open their doors and their community facilities without fear of facing frivolous negligence lawsuits from customers, patrons or facility users.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To House Administration Committee |
| HB229 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act increases the non-refundable income tax credit from $400 to $500 for active members of Delaware volunteer fire, ambulance, or rescue service company or its auxiliary. This Act also makes technical changes to conform existing law to the stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB301 | Pass | This Act repeals a provision in the State Employees Pension Plan that included participants in the Division for the Visually Impaireds (DVI) Business Enterprise Program (BEP) in the State pension plan. BEP participants are meant to be independent bli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | In 48 states, the presidential candidate winning the majority of the popular vote is awarded that states total electoral votes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Administration Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill amends Title 11 to require that custodial interrogations of children, at a place of detention, by a law enforcement officer, be electronically recorded. The Bill requires the law enforcement officer to prepare a written explanation if the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires transparency in the use of risk assessment instruments and requires empirical data that the instrument does not increase or magnify bias against any protected class.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB337 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act mandates that the Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to establish Maximum Contaminant Levels for specific contaminants found in drinking water in this st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
Amendment HA 1 to HB 337 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Over 80% of pharmaceuticals in the United States are purchased through pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) networks. PBMs serve as intermediaries between health plans, pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacies, and PBMs establish networks for consumers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB338 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act promotes the expansion of licensure opportunities in Delaware while maintaining standards of competence and professionalism required for the protection of the citizens of Delaware. The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Survey...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| HB336 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates the Public Employee Sexual Violence Act which allows public employees who have suffered sexual violence in the workplace the ability to file an action against the perpetrator and the employee even if the applicable statute of limita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Delawares Constitution does not currently require the Governor to inform the General Assembly in advance of issuing extensions to State of Emergency Orders or any executive order extending, amending, guiding or modifying a State of Emergency Order. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-29
To House Administration Committee |
| HB332 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes obsolete language. Sheriffs are not equipped to safely transport prisoners and no sheriff has done so in nearly 10 years. This Act also makes a technical correction to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB333 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the broad exemption in the Freedom of Information Act for the University of Delaware and Delaware State University and creates the following specific exemptions for some records of public institutions:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Administration Committee |
| HB202 | Pass | This bill creates a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to utilize external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that illegally pass school buses and to punish these motorists by issuing them a civil penalty. The purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB330 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill limits the Governor's authority to continue a state of emergency by requiring the General Assembly to adopt and set the time period for continuing the state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-24
To House Administration Committee |
| HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Individuals who are at very high risk of getting HIV can take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. PrEP medication reduces the risk of HIV transmission by up to 99% if taken daily. This Act prohibits disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-17
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB238 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act permits a school district to conduct on the last day of January an optional unit count of pupils who enrolled after the actual unit count was conducted and certified by the Department of Education. A school district will qualify for one-half...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB175 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act allows any qualified voter evidencing a desire to vote by mail in writing to the State Elections Commission to vote by mail in primary, general, and special federal elections. The State Elections Commission shall administer the program, crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Amendment HA 3 to HB 175 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB326 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill would allow two Microbreweries to share brewing equipment and maintain their separate premises to sell their product to consumers and/or wholesalers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB317 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act classifies pesticides containing a neonicotinoid as a restricted use pesticide and prohibits the use of a pesticide containing a neonicotinoid on land owned or maintained by the State. Neonicotinoids have been linked to impaired memory, move...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB325 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds nationally certified occupational therapists to the list of employees entitled to receive a salary supplement for receiving national certification and makes technical changes to the section consistent with the Delaware Legislative Draf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Education Committee |
| HB324 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides all law-enforcement officers the authority to enforce the existing labeling requirements for dumpsters that are in a public road or parking lot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
