| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is intended to advance sustainable energy goals and initiatives in Delaware and to restore Delaware as a leader in renewable, sustainable energy. First, this Act builds on the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act, which was first enacte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Amendment SA 1 to SB 250 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 9 NOT VOTING |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act ensures that the consumer protections for Delawareans related to summary possession and tenants holding over in rental units put in place during the COVID-19 state of emergency do not cease immediately on the lifting of the COVID-19 state of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 48 enacted a requirement that contractors bidding for large public works contracts provide craft training of apprentices and journeymen. This Act expands how contractors can satisfy this craft training requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Laid On Table in Senate |
| SB254 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act ensures that the consumer protections for Delawareans related to residential mortgage foreclosure put in place during the COVID-19 state of emergency do not cease immediately upon the lifting of the COVID-19 state of emergency, but instead c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-20
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Juneteenth National Freedom Day commemorates June 19, 1865, the date news finally reached African Americans in Galveston, Texas that Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves living in Confederate states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-20
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Title 3 and Title 7 do not currently define the term farm and Title 3 does not currently define the term farm operations. This Act defines farm and farming operations for the purposes of Title 3 and Title 7. This Act amends the definition of farm ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act limits the use of certain Class B firefighting foams (Class B foams) in Delaware. Class B foams are used to put out fires caused by flammable liquids like gasoline, oil, and jet fuel, and can be divided into 2 categories: those with PFAS che...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines yard waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends the Delaware Viatical Settlements Act by permanently removing the bond requirements for viatical settlement brokers and updating a reference to life settlement brokers by replacing it with viatical settlement brokers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Under current law, only a premises that qualifies as a restaurant or is operated by a not-for-profit group may allow customers to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends the Delaware Energy Act to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in the State by creating more accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Specifically, this Act permits State Agencies to charge a reasonable fee for use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2018, the General Assembly enacted House Bill No. 204 of the 149th General Assembly, Chapter 200, Volume 81 of the Laws of Delaware, ("HB 204"), with "the goal of modernizing the pretrial process, reducing reliance on monetary condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB216 | Intro
Sine Die | In almost every mass murder that has occurred in the United States over the past 2 decades, subsequent investigations have revealed that the perpetrator had displayed what have become known as red flag indicators which, if known, identified, and repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a special license plate for those citizens who wish to support pollinator habitat creation and conservation. This Act requires a greater-than-majority vote for passage because Article VIII, § 11 of the Delaware Constitution requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that repeals the provisions regarding legislative districts that were found unconstitutional in the 1960s by the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States District Court for the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that an employer is liable to an employee for liquidated damages if the employer does not make wages available during the next payday after an employee quits, resigns, is discharged, suspended, or laid off. The only difference betw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill institutes a State nontidal wetlands program and leaves intact the current State tidal wetlands program under Chapter 66 of Title 7. Prior to these amendments, the only regulatory protection of the State's nontidal wetlands was through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Amendment SA 1 to SB 233 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits a seller from refusing to accept cash from a consumer making an in-person purchase of a good or service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | On November 3, 2015, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report titled "Elevated Rates of Urban Firearm Violence and Opportunities for Prevention Wilmington, Delaware" in which the CDC made 2 majo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| SCR72 | Intro
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution requests the United States Congress propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to make clear that Congress and the states have the power and authority to regulate and limit the amounts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB226 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Recommended One-Time Supplement FY21
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Recommended Budget Bill
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | The intent of this Act is to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the environment and to raise awareness of the need to properly dispose of balloons. To that end, this Act imposes a civil penalty for the violation of intentionally releasing 5 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court for offenses under § 4836 of this Title on the basis of the voluntary and involuntary exclusion lists. This would allow the Court of Common Pleas to hold jurisdiction over these offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Amendment SA 1 to SB 209 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag is a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars 36. U.S.C. § 902.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act revises the appointment process for members of the Primary Care Reform Collaborative who are not members by virtue of position. Under this Act, these members are appointed by a government official to comply with the requirements of the Delaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act recognizes the importance of sibling relationships to promote continuity and sustain family relationships for children in foster care by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
Stricken in Senate |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act adds testifying at a hearing held by a standing committee of the House of Representatives or Senate or joint committee of the General Assembly within the definition of swears falsely, which applies to Delawares perjury laws. This addition me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
Stricken in Senate |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires public schools to begin their school year after Labor Day. There have been many economic impact reports done that show a positive impact from starting public schools after Labor Day. A report by the Virginia Hospitality and Travel A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | A 2019 study found the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies the circumstances in which it is appropriate to grant a person a driver education learners permit and what is required for a person to obtain a driver education learners permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes children with disabilities who attend homeschools eligible to receive speech language pathology and audiology services in the same manner as students who attend private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires that a former foster parent of a child be considered a preferential placement option for a child when the child is placed for adoption less than 13 months after the end of the foster placement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB202 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that a person with a special license plate or permit for persons with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to walk may park for an unlimited period where the length of time is otherwise limited and must be able to park in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 7052 of Title 25 provides that the completion and cost of any capital improvements or rehabilitation work, as distinguished from ordinary repair, replacement, and maintenance, may justify an increase in rent in a manufactured home community b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
To Senate Elections, Government & Community Affairs Committee |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes it unlawful to cause yard waste to be swept, raked, blown, or otherwise placed in a roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06
Stricken in Senate |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends Delawares laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the adoption of Senate Bill No. 151, which proposes a constitutional amendment to permit preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that the immunity provided for furnishing information about suspected fraud applies even if no investigation, action, or penalty results from the information furnished.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Delawares existing Criminal Code was adopted in 1973 and was based on the Model Penal Code. Since that time, the Criminal Code has quadrupled in size and expanded to other parts of the Code without consideration to the general effects of the change o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Delawares existing Criminal Code was adopted in 1973 and was based on the Model Penal Code. Since that time, the Criminal Code has quadrupled in size and provisions related to crimes expanded to other parts of the Code without consideration to the ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act allows special investigators with the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families to make arrests and render assistance to other police officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| SB151 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that modernizes the Delaware Constitutions bail provision and clarifies the power of the General Assembly and the Courts to define certain felony offenses for which, or circumstances under which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Title 9, Chapter 21 of the Delaware Code provides, upon the petition of a majority of property owners of any unincorporated community or village in New Castle County, that New Castle County Council may enter into a contract with any electric, gas, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | This Substitute Act modifies the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act to do all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Energy Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies the rules for driving on Delaware roadways. It mandates the general rule that drivers operate vehicles in the right-most lane subject to some exceptions. It also mandates that, on the limited access portions of Route 1 only (curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act exempts a number of nonprofit corporations from property taxation or assessment by a county or other political subdivision of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Stricken in Senate |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act enhances 2 existing agricultural horse racing programs, the Delaware Standardbred Breeder's Program and the Delaware Certified Thoroughbred program, by providing additional funding. Under this Act, horsemen provide half of the additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes a new subchapter of Title 16 regulating urgent care facilities. It requires such facilities, existing and new, to obtain a license from DHSS, which requires the urgent care facility to either be accredited by an approved accredit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
Amendment SA 1 to SB 171 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | The Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS) was established in 1970 by legislative enactment with a broad and crucial mandate: to supervise the health, wellbeing, and life of Delaware citizens. In the decades since, the population of Delaware ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
To Senate Elections, Government & Community Affairs Committee |
