| 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 |
| HB12 | Pass | This Act strengthens the role and responsibilities of the Provider Advisory Board in regard to the implementation and enforcement of The Delaware Child Care Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| HB58 | Pass | This act will increase the numbers of Delaware nursing students eligible for the nursing incentive program by allowing Delawareans pursuing nursing careers at non-profit hospitals located in Delaware to be eligible for the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| HB209 | Pass | This legislation expands the list of central contracts currently available to be accessed by state agencies and other allowed organizations to include professional services contracts. The legislation also adds local governments to the list of organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB208 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Hazardous Substance Control Act to reflect recent amendments to the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). This Act protects state, county, and municipal government entitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB143 | Pass | The Plans Management Board (the Board) oversees and administers the State's Deferred Compensation Program authorized under chapter 60A of Title 29 of the Delaware Code. The Deferred Compensation Program encompasses the following 3 distinct supple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB195 | Pass | The purpose of the Bill is to update the existing beekeeping code to better reflect current practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB61 | Pass | State economic development officials pursue economic development opportunities that, if realized, would have significant impact on Delaware's future economic health and competitiveness. Such situations frequently require expeditious action and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB95 | Pass | This Act expands the permitted uses of unclaimed electric cooperative capital credits to include investments in energy services for low income members and energy efficiency, renewable energy, battery storage, electrification and emerging energy techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB83 | Pass | This Act adopts the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact (Compact). The Compact benefits the public by improving continuity of care, increasing license portability for military spouses, and increasing access to physical therapy providers. Under the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB94 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act amends Section 903 of Title 13 of the Delaware Code. Substantively, this Act allows persons who are not married but who are cohabitating to jointly adopt a child that is not theirs. The Act also rewrites the statute so as to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB95 | Pass | This Act provides a fair bidding environment for contractors who obey the law and protects the interests of workers and taxpayers by implementing recommendations from the review of the Workplace Fraud Act required by Senate Resolution No. 26 of the 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB87 | Pass | This act designates the Bellanca Cruisair as the official historical aircraft of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB121 | Pass | This Act makes necessary changes to Delawares election laws based on the States purchase of new voting devices and establishes auditing requirements for the voting devices. The new voting devices will function differently than the existing voting dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB130 | Pass | This bill expands upon the existing at-store recycling program regarding the use of single-use plastic bags. The existing requirements will continue, however stores subject to this program will now be limited from providing single-use plastic bags fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB5 | Pass | This Act addresses the serious problem of individuals dumping large quantities of trash on public and private property, by:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB74 | Pass | This bill enables a key component of the Take Care Delaware program, a partnership between law enforcement and schools to adopt a trauma-informed approach to children who have been identified at the scene of a traumatic event. The Take Care Delaware ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB139 | Pass | This Act will enable New Castle County to collect delinquent sewer service charges under the procedures established by Chapter 87 of Title 9 for the collection of delinquent county taxes. Under the existing method for New Castle County established by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB66 | Pass | This Act enables the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to employ Seasonal Patrol Officers without conferring on the seasonal patrol officers all the powers of investigation, detention, and arrest conferred by law on peace offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB234 | Pass | This Act gives the Delaware Secretary of State the authority to promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of this Act. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB231 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Department of Agriculture to impose civil penalties consistent with the amounts imposed in other states when livestock have been found to have run at large on the public highways or on unenclosed land within the State. This Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB143 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act clarifies the definition of the term policy for purposes of §§ 3903-3907 of Title 18 of the Delaware Code to apply only to personal automobile insurance policies and not commercial or other types of policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB246 | Pass | This bill adds the intentional touching of another person with semen to the definition of sexual contact. By doing so, the act of a person intentionally touching another person with semen without consent becomes the crime of unlawful sexual contact t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB92 | Pass | This bill creates an Expanded Learning Opportunities Subcommittee as part of the Interagency Resource Management Committee (IRMC) to provide research, recommendations, and coordination regarding before and after school programs and summer learning op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB222 | Pass | This Act allows the State Board of Education to change or alter boundaries of reorganized school districts. It allows the State Board of Education to do so based upon redistricting recommendations from the newly formed Redding Consortium for Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB41 | Pass | This Act establishes that the age of offense and not the age of arrest determines jurisdiction for a person facing charges. Currently, if a person commits a delinquent act before age 18 but is arrested after age 18, the offense is automatically heard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB131 | Pass | This bill reduces the required number of meetings that the Advisory Council on Video Lottery Planning and the Advisory Council on Charitable Gaming Planning must hold each calendar year and authorizes the Lottery Director to add certain sports lotter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB44 | Pass | This Act makes the possession or consumption of alcohol by an individual under 21 years of age a civil offense. This Act also prohibits including information concerning a civil violation of the underage possession or consumption law on an individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB51 | Pass | The Town Council for the Town of Millsboro determined that the way they award contracts should be improved. The amount that initiates the process is increased from $20,000 to $50,000 to better reflect the current cost of ordinary purchases that the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB207 | Pass | This Act expands the applicability of the Delaware Brownfields Development Program, Subchapter II, Chapter 91 of Title 7, by providing protection from liability for releases of regulated substances from underground storage tanks and aboveground stora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB247 | Pass | This bill removes the 3 year sunset provision that was part of House Bill No. 53, as amended, enacted on May 10, 2018 of the 149th General Assembly. This will allow the on-going use of certain ground-based and hand-held sparklers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB142 | Pass | This Act prohibits a new adult entertainment establishment or adult-oriented retail establishment from operating in a building in which an adult entertainment establishment or adult-oriented retail establishment previously operated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB110 | 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 Arch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB175 | Pass | Currently, the SEED program allows students a maximum of 6 semesters to complete an Associate Degree. This Bill allows SEED eligible students who complete their Associate Degree in fewer than 6 semesters to apply the remaining semesters of the grant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB147 | Pass | This Act allows the Department of Safety and Homeland Security to share accident reports and the data in the reports with the Department of Transportation. This Act also allows the Department of Transportation to provide certain de-identified data fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB230 | Pass | This Act allows the Delaware Health Information Network ("DHIN") to enter into an appropriate agreement with the State Council for Persons with Disabilities (SCPD) to provide access to all claims data reported to the Delaware Health Care Cl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB137 | Pass | This Act creates the crimes of unlawful possession of a drug masking product, punishable as a class A misdemeanor, and unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of a drug masking product, punishable as a class E felony. Drug masking products are desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB148 | Pass | This Act creates the Redding Consortium for Educational Equity ("Consortium"), which replaces the Wilmington Education Improvement Commission ("WEIC"). The Consortium has multiple purposes. First, it will recommend policies and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB156 | Pass | In January 2019, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 149th General Assembly in 2018 or as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB191 | Pass | This Act increases the civil jurisdictional limit for the Court of Common Pleas from $50,000 to $75,000, as recommended by the Jurisdiction Improvement Committee established by the Delaware Supreme Court Order of November 7, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB172 | Pass | This Bill is a housekeeping measure to correct the name of the Delaware Technical and Community College as was intended in earlier legislation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB163 | Pass | Individuals who volunteer their services through stand-alone EMS companies have been a valuable part of public safety to the citizens of the State of Delaware. To try to bolster the ranks of these volunteers, this bill exempts anyone applying for mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB235 | Pass | This Act will prohibit political subdivisions of this State from requiring real estate licensees to obtain an additional business license or pay taxes in order to list property for sellers or represent buyers for the purchase of real estate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB168 | Pass | This Act allows for the transfer of a particular parcel of land in Smyrna along Route 13. In the 147th General Assembly, the State was allowed to transfer this parcel of land, where a fire tower once stood, to the Town of Smyrna, but the land could o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
