| SB182 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act makes the following changes related to traffic control devices erected on order of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation (Secretary) limiting the size and weight of vehicles and loads permitted on a specific highway:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB296 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill increases the amount that a tenant may deduct from rent in order to have necessary work done on the rental premises if the landlord fails to repair or maintain the premises after proper notice. The original amount of $200 was selected at th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| HB277 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes the crimes of possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number, possession of and manufacturing a covert or undetectable firearm, possession of and manufacturing an untraceable firearm, and manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Amendment HA 1 to HB 277 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB295 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headligh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB292 | Intro
Sine Die | This amendment repeals Title 16 § 7204 in its entirety. This particular section prescribes a practice that is typically unused and handled through a traditional warrant process by charging a previous section of this chapter brought by a law enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB300 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2021 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Capital Infrastructure Committee |
| HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires a landlord to provide 15 days notice to a single room tenant prior to the termination of a rental agreement for any reason other than a material violation. This notice provision ensures that the tenant has time to find suitable hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| SB226 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's Recommended One-Time Supplement FY21
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB258 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows the Department of Correction to implement prison nurseries, which would allow women inmates that give birth during their time incarcerated the option of raising their infant up to the age of 18 months. Studies have shown that prison ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations 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 |
| HB179 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill increases the fines for littering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Environmental & Natural Resources) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| SB126 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act expands eligibility for Line-of-Duty disability benefits to paid firefighters who work for municipal fire departments and to fire service instructors and fire marshals who work for the State and for nonphysical disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act changes the term of a school board member from 5 years to 3 years and adds the requirement that each school board member is paid $100 per meeting attended by the Department of Education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 |
| SB112 | Engross
Sine Die | The Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee approved a project to work with the Governor's Office throughout 2018 and 2019 to identify antiquated boards, commissions, and councils that need statutory updates or outright repeals. The Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| HB243 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act allows registered qualifying patients and registered designated caregivers to grow limited amounts of medical marijuana if the following requirements are met:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Tabled in Committee |
| HB4 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act, known as the James Johnson Sentencing Reform Act, named for Representative JJ Johnson, makes significant changes to the sentencing laws in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB265 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act fully exempts county property taxes and local school taxes for a disabled veteran with a 100% VA rated service-connected, permanent and total disability or for a disabled veteran who is receiving 100% disability compensation due to individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB284 | Intro
Sine Die | This legislation allows the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs to employ the spouses of veterans and retains the stipulation that the Executive Director of the Commission must be a veteran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 13 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| HB286 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires that inadvertent out-of-network services be included in individual and group health insurance policies as well as group and blank health insurance policies. This bill defines inadvertent out-of-network services are those services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| 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 |
| HB144 | Engross
Sine Die | House Bill 212 enacted by the 148th General Assembly (80 Del. Laws c. 287) expanded the offense of Assault in the Second Degree to include the intentional assault of ambulance operators, rescue squad members, and nurses injured while performing work-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB281 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill increases the minimum amount of property damage that triggers the mandatory reporting of a vehicular collision to police from $500 to $2,000. This bill also increases the minimum amount of property damage requiring police agencies to invest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB257 | Intro
Sine Die | This substitute act establishes a Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program for new primary care providers to be administered by the Delaware Health Care Commission. Under the loan repayment program, the Health Care Commission may award education l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB28 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill clarifies definitions relating to airbags, counterfeit supplemental restraint system components, nonfunctional airbags, and supplemental restraint systems, and prohibited trade practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| HB288 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act, the Interstate Compact Prohibiting Company-Specific Subsidies (Compact), is an interstate compact designed to eliminate and prohibit corporate welfare. This Act provides that no participating state under the Compact (member state) may offer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| 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 |
| HB276 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds a provision addressing the assignability of rights under property insurance policies and authorizes a property insurance carrier to limit a policys assignability only to those persons or entities that have the legal authority to repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 12 On Its Merits |
| SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act requires that the State food safety standards include a system for grading and classifying inspection results that identifies and represents a food establishment's degree of compliance with the standards. This Act also requires that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Amendment HA 1 to SB 167 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 |
| HB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Many of the States waters do not meet water quality standards to support their designated uses, such as for drinking, swimming or supporting aquatic life. The Clean Water for Delaware Act establishes a framework for assessing needs and planning and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 1 of this bill clarifies that the reinstatement obligations of insurers under Section 3903(d) apply in instances of both nonrenewals and cancellations of policies due to nonpayment of premiums. Sections 2 through 4 of this bill revise the met...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| HB37 | Intro
Sine Die | This act restores the $500 senior real property tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Amendment HA 1 to HB 37 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB169 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill changes the relationship between physicians and physician assistants from supervisory to collaborative, in recognition of the evolving role of physician assistants and reflecting the education, training, and experience required for licensin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB268 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires that individual, group, State employee, and public assistance insurance plans provide coverage for epinephrine autoinjectors for individuals who are 18 years of age or under and must include at least 1 formulation of epinephrine aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB274 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes the time frame within which a property insurer must give prior written notice to the insured of its intent to cancel a policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 13 On Its Merits |
| SB197 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act postpones the effective date of Senate Bill No. 67, enacted in 2019, from January 1, 2020, to July 1, 2020. The clerks of the peace for all 3 counties have indicated they intend to postpone implementation of Senate Bill No. 67, so as to allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Community Affairs) in House with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| HB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware is one of a handful of states that has no cap other than unconscionability on interest rates for short-term consumer loans. Under Delaware case law, the unconscionability of an interest rate is decided by a court on a case by case basis. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment to require a 3/5 vote of each House of the General Assembly to enact a law that would enable a county to enact a tax or increase a tax rate above a rate currently authorized by state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To House Administration Committee |
| HB261 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the appointed receiver or custodian to itemize and make public a complete list of costs incurred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
Stricken in House |
| HB73 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is a first leg of a constitutional amendment that would eliminate from the Delaware Constitution the limitations as to when an individual may vote by absentee ballot. This amendment to the Delaware Constitution provides that the General Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| HB262 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act permits the Division of Motor Vehicles to assign special license plates for firefighters, auxiliary members, or volunteer ambulance members to vehicles owned by an artificial entity, including a corporation, company, association, firm, partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 Favorable |
| HB41 | Engross
Sine Die | Section 1 of this bill moves the date of primary elections for statewide office, county office, and municipal office to the fourth Tuesday in April, which is the date of the presidential primary (in presidential election years). The dates for submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Amendment SA 1 to HB 41 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 |
