| HB97 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill will allow a non-resident full-time student in a public or private postsecondary educational institution in this state to purchase a hunting, trapping or fishing license at the same fee charged a resident for the same license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB111 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows school districts and charter schools in Delaware to utilize external camera systems on school buses to catch motorists that illegally pass school buses and punishes these motorist by issuing them a civil penalty. The purpose of this ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-10
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 4 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits |
| HB44 | Pass | This bill eliminates all references to physical paper copies of professional licenses for professions administrated by the Division of Professional Regulation. This bill would eliminate the need for the Division to print and mail over 80,000 paper li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes the Focus on Alternative Skills Training Program ("FAST"). FAST will provide tuition, up to $9,000, to Delaware residents who have obtained a high school diploma, Diploma of Alternate Achievement Standards, or a Delawar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB43 | Pass | This bill eliminates the requirement under several provisions of Title 24 that applicants for professional licenses as well as adult entertainment establishments submit notarized applications. This bill would allow for a policy change at the Division...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB107 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires notification by certified mail when an owner's outstanding fines, penalties, and administrative fees exceed $500 and when the owner is subject to enhanced penalties. Notification as to the possible enhanced penalties is require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB18 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes all veterans with a minimum discharge of general discharge under honorable conditions eligible for assistance from the Delaware Veterans Trust Fund, effective January 1, 2020. This Act also directs 3% of the proceeds returned to the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
Stricken in House |
| SB22 | Pass | Act enacts the National Popular Vote compact, which changes the Electoral College from an institution that reflects the voters state-by-state choices into a body that reflects the voters nationwide choice. Currently, state statutes require that elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires high needs elementary schools, including high needs elementary charter schools, to have school-based health centers. The State will pay the start-up costs for each school-based health center at 2 centers per year until each high nee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB99 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill provides that for correction officers and specified peace officers, the amount of ordinary service or disability pension benefits given to state employees shall also include the following: (1) Before July 1, 2019, 2.45% of his or her final ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Administration Committee |
| HB100 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware elementary schools. The unit is at a ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades K-5 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB34 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Rehoboth Beach to make Sections 3 through 7 gender-neutral, to provide travel reimbursement at the Internal Revenue Service rate rather than the Sussex County Sheriffs rate, to reduce the ownership requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB48 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill provides State funding to kindergarten through third grade for basic special education. State funding already occurs for intensive and complex special education during these grades. Currently the basic special education funding runs from fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB19 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act seeks to ensure that every public school in the State has a school nurse. This Act provides a mechanism to allow a district or a charter school that currently does not have a school nurse to receive State funds. This Act also permits a distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
Tabled in Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act authorizes a 1-time tax credit in the amount of a fee for a new license under Title 24 for an individual who is 25 years or younger, or whose income is equal to or less than 130% of the federal poverty guideline. The tax credit eases the fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
Stricken in Senate |
| HB83 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides that the amount of ordinary or disability pension payable to a 9-1-1 operator includes 2.45% of the 9-1-1 operator's final average compensation multiplied by years of service above 25 years, the same multiplier as applied to cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act permits wine producers holding a valid license within this State or another state to obtain a license and ship wine directly to Delaware consumers so long as it is done through a common carrier with a carrier permit. This Act requires that w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| HB85 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution requiring an individual elected to an office of this State, or one of its political subdivisions, to resign from the officer's current elected office if the officer seeks to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Administration Committee |
| HB11 | Pass | House Bill No. 363, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, of the 149th General Assembly changed the time that polls open for school board and school referendum elections to 7:00 a.m from prior time of 10:00 a.m. There are several sections of Title 14 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB70 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act would add a fee schedule specific to requests made by insurance companies to the Department of Insurance for expedited service of charter documents, copies of documents on file in the Department, certification and affixing of official seals,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 11 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | The use of genetic information in disqualifying coverage for non-health insurance products, such as disability insurance and long term care insurance, is a gap in the protection provided by the federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. As a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
Amendment SA 1 to SB 17 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB32 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act decreases by 1% the rate of realty transfer tax to be received by the State, thereby returning to the rate that was applicable prior to August 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Tabled in Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | The language set forth in this statute would remove barriers for inmates who are students with disabilities and who have an Individualized Education Program (IEP) under state and federal law, when being considered for parole or a sentence modificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 13 On Its Merits |
| HB27 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows real property tax itemized deductions to continue in Delaware notwithstanding recently enacted changes to federal income tax laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Tabled in Committee |
| HB17 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill gives school and local government property taxes priority collection status over other claimant agencies when the collection is made by tax intercept reducing refunds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| HB22 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is a companion bill to House Bill No. 21 and provides the authority for the Department of Education to prescribe the rules and regulations necessary to implement the prison education program which provides educational services to the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the penalties for parking in an area designated for a vehicle being used by an individual with a disability. For a subsequent offense, this Act increases the potential minimum imprisonment from 10 days to 15 days and the potential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act changes the program for distributing payments to county seats with tax-exempt properties owned by the State. Section 8318 of Title 29 directs compensatory payments for exempt properties owned by the State to the county seats, Wilmington, Dov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB36 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act authorizes a county or municipality to treat an unpaid lien as a tax lien against the property subject to the lien and collect the lien in the same manner as other tax liens, including a proceeding under a writ of monition. This Act also mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Stricken in House |
| HB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware's statewide community college system, operated by Delaware Technical Community College (the College), plays a critical role in the State's economy by providing workforce development, vocational training and transfer education that co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To House Administration Committee |
| HB35 | Pass | This bill changes the definition of the multi-purpose sports facility to make it available to a broader range of sports facilities that may apply for a liquor license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB9 | Pass | This Act amends the Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 Bond and Capital Improvements Acts to (1) authorize the Department of Transportation to use Community Transportation Funds for one-time reimbursements for various projects; (2) allow the transfer of fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB53 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a physician to offer a patient ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services before terminating a pregnancy and provides civil and criminal penalties for the failure of a physician to comply with this requirement....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act appropriates $39,117,700 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a physician to offer a patient ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services before terminating a pregnancy and provides civil and criminal penalties for the failure of a physician to comply with this requirement....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill removes the training minimum wage, which takes effect 90 days after enactment, and youth minimum wage, which takes effect January 1, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2020 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Capital Improvement Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | The Act protects the life of the unborn child at a time when the potential for the child to survive outside the womb increases, especially with the advancement of medical procedures. Specifically, this Act repeals the current sections of the Delaware...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| HB3 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act authorizes the Office of Management and Budget to partner with financial institutions and non-profit providers to establish a temporary loan program for furloughed and unpaid Federal employees as a result of the shutdown caused by a lapse in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| HB2 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Federal Employees Civil Relief Act which provides the temporary suspension of judicial and administrative proceedings and transactions in Delaware that may adversely affect the civil rights of Federal workers during a sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB42 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill makes changes to the qualifications for professional land surveyors. This bill also makes clear that there is no civil or criminal trespass when a professional land surveyor enters upon land in the course of preparing a survey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB1 | Enroll
Sine Die | This is the final leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to provide equal rights on the basis of sex. There is no Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. While Congress passed the Amendment in 1972, it was not ratified by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | This proposed Constitutional Amendment establishes 20 year term limits for Representatives and Senators beginning with those terms of office elected during the general election of 2022. If a Representative or Senator serves 20 consecutive years in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Administration Committee |
| HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act allows Civic Associations in unincorporated areas of New Castle County to create garbage collection districts for units in their subdivision or housing development and contract for garbage collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that requires the General Assembly to wait 48 hours from the introduction of the budget appropriation bill, bond and capital improvement act, and act making appropriations for certain grants-in-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-04
To House Administration Committee |
| HB13 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act reaffirms the Constitutional requirement that the General Assembly appropriate money belonging to the General Fund by making clear that funds received by the State or a State agency from settlements or other final orders or judgments, other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-12-13
To House Administration Committee |
| HB14 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the following new tax brackets:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-12-13
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
