| HB267 | Intro
Sine Die | This act will allow a critical need reimbursement to be distributed directly to an institute of higher education or Secretary of Education approved Alternative Routes to Teacher Licensure and Certification program for an eligible teacher who is takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 11 On Its Merits |
| 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 |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a mechanism by which school boards may increase funds for a school district both with and without a referendum. This bill also provides how certain school boards may levy real estate taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
Stricken in House |
| HB272 | Intro
Sine Die | Recently, the Department of Justice has dismissed misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence in the Court of Common Pleas in Sussex County and refiled the same misdemeanor charges in the Superior Court in Sussex County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB271 | 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. In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| HB266 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill addresses an on-going problem relating to background checks for employees, volunteers, and contractors of child-serving entities. Currently, a person working a child-serving entity who obtains the required background check must undergo anot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security 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 |
| HB270 | Intro
Sine Die | Stands operated by children that serve or sell lemonade or other nonalcoholic beverages on a temporary, occasional basis are a summertime tradition for many children. This Act exempts a stand operated by a child from State, county, and municipal regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-12
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB109 | Pass | 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 Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB241 | Pass | This bill expands the Employment First Oversight Commission by adding the Director of the Division for the Visually Impaired as a member, the Director of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, and other councils, committees, agencies, org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB47 | Pass | This Act simplifies Delawares drug code with a goal of providing more fairness in its application. This Act removes geographic-based enhancements that disproportionately impact those living in urban areas as opposed to suburban and rural areas. This ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB77 | Pass | This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB78 | Pass | This Act aims to make the robbery section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act deletes the carjacking sections and embeds them within the existing robbery statutes to remove duplication from the code. Under this Act, robbery in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB56 | Pass | This act names the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 301 between Route 1 and the Delaware Maryland State line as First Responders Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB239 | Pass | This Act prohibits a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination by a health care practitioner or professional on an individual who is anesthetized or unconscious. This Act provides exceptions and they are if informed consent is provided, the examination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB24 | Pass | This Substitute differs from Senate Bill No. 24 by requiring a patient to apply for a compassionate use medical marijuana card when a doctor recommends medical marijuana to a patient who does not have a qualifying debilitating medical condition. To a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB78 | Pass | This Act requires that the health education programs presented by the Department of Education include instruction on what it means to "consent" in the context of a sexual encounter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| SB15 | Pass | This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB63 | Pass | The Delaware Equal Accommodations Law, Chapter 45 of Title 6 of the Delaware Code, prevents discrimination against people because of their race, age, marital status, creed, color, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national orig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB65 | Pass | This Bill enables the use of roof or ground mounted solar systems on privately owned residential dwellings by making covenants or other restrictions that effectively prohibit or unreasonably restrict the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB134 | Pass | Under current Delaware law, the county sheriffs offices are required to appraise goods that are being levied upon to pay debts. In addition, the sheriffs offices can be held liable to pay the debts of a judgment debtor if, for example, they inadverte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB135 | Pass | 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 Gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB138 | Pass | This Act is the result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees review of the Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education (DACCTE), and does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB113 | Pass | This bill clarifies that Delaware law enforcement may enter into agreements to provide mutual assistance to other jurisdictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB131 | Pass | This Act authorizes the State and its counties and municipalities to install and use vehicle height monitoring systems ("vehicle height monitoring system") to assist in the enforcement of applicable State, county, or municipal law regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB32 | Pass | This Act prohibits the practice known as patient brokering, which is the practice where patient brokers are paid a fee to place insured people in treatment centers so that the treatment centers receive thousands of dollars in insurance claim payments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB119 | Pass | The bill expands the qualified agencies authorized to receive grants approved by the Water Infrastructure Advisory Council to include non-profit corporations, such as the Diamond State Sustainability Corporation (DSSC), approved by Public Service Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB161 | Pass | This Act allows law-enforcement officers to share an individual's identifying information with the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health ("DSAMH") if the officer suspects the individual is suffering from an overdose or a mental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB220 | Pass | This Act adds coverage for Medication Assisted Treatment ("MAT") for drug and alcohol dependencies to the mental health parity laws for health insurance. This Act requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for prescription medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB124 | Pass | This Bill modifies the impact of criminal history on an applicants eligibility for licensure. It gives the Board discretion to grant waivers for felony convictions for crimes committed against a person where more than 3 years have elapsed, and more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB10 | Pass | This Act is identical to Senate Bill No. 127 from the 149th General Assembly, which was passed by the Senate and reported out of the House Administration Committee. This Act corrects an inadvertent error in Delaware law that has permitted people youn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB125 | Pass | Currently, non-resident pass-through entities, trusts, and estates are required to pay estimated income taxes anticipated to be due as a result of real estate transactions before each deed is recorded. The payment of estimated income taxes before eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB7 | Pass | This Bill modifies the impact of criminal history on an applicants eligibility for licensure and thereby removes certain barriers to employment. It gives the Board the discretion to grant a waiver of a felony conviction for a crime committed against ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB113 | Pass | This Act results from the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act Fund (HSCA Fund). Section 1 of the Act, which will take effect on January 1, 2021, provides that the Fund's 15% cap on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB43 | Pass | This Act modifies the impact of criminal history for applicants for licensure to the Board of Electrical Examiners (Board). Specifically, this Act:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB73 | Pass | Daylight saving time has existed in one form or another for over 100 years. In that time, Delawareans have become accustomed to the 8 months of daylight saving time each year. This Act provides for Delaware to permanently remain on daylight saving ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB128 | Pass | This Act extends the time period for which a member of the Delaware National Guard may receive funding for certain postsecondary education tuition and fees from 10 years after the date on which the member begins the first course for which funds are g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB30 | Pass | Unmanned aircraft systems are capable of introducing contraband into detention facilities without undergoing correctional officer inspections. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to introduce contraband into dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB116 | Pass | This Act expands the membership of the Primary Care Reform Collaborative and creates an Office of Value-Based Health Care Delivery in the Department of Insurance to reduce health care costs by increasing the availability of high quality, cost-efficie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| SB166 | Pass | This Act encourages school districts and charter schools to cooperate to ensure that State appropriations for school transportation are used efficiently by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB92 | Pass | Delaware is one of only 3 states that does not offer some form of adult dental coverage through Medicaid (alongside Tennessee and Alabama).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB35 | Pass | This Act revises Delaware Insurance Code provisions related to the individual and group health insurance markets to directly incorporate into Delaware law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts consumer protections related to the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB187 | Pass | This Act amends Section 3001(d)(1) of Title 14 to require that the Department of Education ensure that the standards of the Delaware Stars for Early Success system are consistent with the regulations of the Office of Child Care Licensing. It also rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB153 | Pass | This legislation is based on information technology (IT) recommendations of the Government Efficiency and Accountability Review (GEAR) Board established by Governor Carneys Executive Order Four. This act modernizes Chapter 90C of Title 29 of the Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB156 | Pass | This bill allows our wounded warriors or similar veterans' organizations who have been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States and have at least a 60% service-connected disability to be able to obtain a license to hunt, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB174 | Pass | This Act establishes standards for data security for Title 18 licensees and standards for the investigation of and notification to the Commissioner of a cybersecurity event affecting Title 18 licensees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| SB45 | Pass | Under current law, the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana remains a crime for those under the age of 21 despite being a civil violation for adults. This Act makes the possession, use, or consumption of a personal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
