| SB16 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles (Division) to issue special registration plates to motorcycle clubs without having to enact a special law for each request. A motorcycle club must have 50 applications for its special registration pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB46 | Pass | This Act creates a Delaware Manufactured Home Owner Attorney Fund ("Attorney Fund") by collecting a $0.50 monthly assessment per lot from manufactured home owners who rent a lot in a community governed by the Manufactured Home Owners and Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB159 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act authorizes the Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Department, or General Assembly to request, and requires the Auditor of Accounts conduct or contract for, an audit of a charter school's business and financial transactions, rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To House Education Committee |
| HB116 | Engross
Sine Die | Importers, manufacturers, and dealers of "destructive weapons" are licensed and regulated under Federal law. Under existing Delaware law, importers, manufacturers, and dealers of destructive weapons are not permitted to deliver them to purc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| 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 |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of the Bill is to protect farmers and ranchers from nuisance lawsuits filed by individuals who inhabit areas where agricultural operations lawfully exist, and who exercise nuisance actions to attempt to stop operation and production. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB193 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Health Insurance Individual Market Stabilization Reinsurance Program & Fund (the Program). The Program will be administered by the Delaware Health Care Commission in order to provide reinsurance to health insurance c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB102 | Pass | This bill allows a person who is arrested or convicted of any crime, except a violent felony, which was a direct result of being a victim of human trafficking may file an application or for a pardon or expungement or make a motion to vacate judgment....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB244 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill will allow marinas in Sussex County to sell gasoline that does not contain ethanol. Sussex County comfortably meets the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone, and removing ethanol from marine fuel will have no signifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB53 | Pass | Diwali is a 5-day festival of lights, celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains across the world. The dates for Diwali change each year, but it usually falls in October or November. Fireworks are an essential component of Diwali and the thir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB245 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates licensing for recovery housing, which is housing for individuals recovering from substance use disorders that provides a safe and supportive substance-free environment and that may include peer support and other recovery support ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| SB60 | Pass | This bill clarifies that in order to be found guilty of prostitution the person must be 18 years or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB69 | Pass | This Act updates the membership of the Telecommunications Relay Service Advisory Committee to include the groups currently engaged in ensuring telecommunications relay services are provided to Delawareans who need relay services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB24 | Pass | This Act would prohibit insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from engaging in the practice of "clawbacks". When the total cost of a prescription drug to an insurer or pharmacy benefits manager is less than a patient's co-pay, the insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB123 | Engross
Sine Die | It is an unfortunate reality that many offenders have difficulty re-entering society. Without the ability to provide for themselves and their families through gainful employment, 67.8% of released prisoners are rearrested within three years of releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Tabled in Committee |
| HB10 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Supreme Court case law and scientific research has changed how we think about juvenile delinquency. We know now that an adolescents brain is not fully developed until the mid-twenties which makes juveniles especially prone to poor decis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (DSCYF) has exclusive jurisdiction over a juvenile's care, custody, and control for any juvenile until at least their 18th birthday. Further, this Act stipu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB233 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act expands the definition of prescription drug order to include electronic prescribing and makes Gabapentin a Schedule V controlled substance. Gabapentin is a prescription medication which is used to treat partial seizures and neuropathic pain....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB72 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act addresses statutes under Chapter 33 of Title 12 and (i) clarifies the definition of governing instrument in section 3301(e) to include cross-references to new section 3343; (ii) adds a definition of published fee schedule to sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB96 | Pass | This Act requires captive insurance companies to pay premium taxes on or before April 15 of each year. This Act complements House Bill No. 289 of the 149th General Assembly (Chapter 251, Volume 81 of the Laws of Delaware) by ensuring that captive ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB103 | Pass | This bill reflects in greater detail the work performed by DSAMH and ensures that DSAMH has the appropriate authority to license and oversee community mental health providers as they do with SUD facilities. DSAMH essentially already does this when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB61 | Pass | Benzodiazepine drugs that are approved for medical use in the United States are classified by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency as Schedule IV. Fourteen benzodiazepine drugs are currently listed on Schedule IV of the Uniform Controlled Substances A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB67 | Pass | This bill provides changes to Section 25 of the City of Seaford Charter relating to tax assessments. The assessor will provide an alphabetical list of the assessment within 30 days of the assessment. The Tax Assessor has 45 days after the appeal hear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB88 | Pass | Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 108(b) to clarify that notice of an initial organization meeting may be given in writing or by electronic transmission. The amendments also eliminate the express requirement that a waiver of that notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB91 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB90 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB89 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB218 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act, the Art Therapist Reimbursement Act, expands consumers' access to mental health care by designating licensed professional art therapists as reimbursement-eligible under health insurance contracts in this State. By assuring parity and eq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| HB201 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires the Department of Education ("Department") to administer the statewide program for services for students with autism spectrum disorder (program) and that the Department must hire the Director of the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 13 On Its Merits |
| HB216 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act authorizes a pharmacist or pharmacy to decline to dispense a prescription drug or provide a pharmacy service to an insured if the amount reimbursed by an entity subject to the Act is less than the pharmacy acquisition cost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| HB76 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families ("DSCYF'') to have exclusive jurisdiction over all aspects of a childs care, custody and control when a child is convicted of a Superior Court offense. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Both the Delaware Strategic Fund (Title 29, Chapter 87A, Subchapter II) and the Delaware Technical Innovation Fund (Title 29, Chapter 87A, Subchapter III) provide funding for Delaware businesses, including new businesses in growing technology-related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| HB187 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act would both raise the jurisdictional limit of the Justice of the Peace Court to $25,000 and allow Justice of the Peace to consider claims in excess of the jurisdictional limit where the underlying matter involves a commercial tenancy and poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Stricken in House |
| HB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have established a process for compensating individuals who have been wrongly convicted. This Act creates such a process for Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act narrows the meaning of firearm for purposes of the Delaware Criminal Code by aligning the definition of firearm with the definition in federal criminal background check law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Judicial) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to view requests for grants-in-aid and to develop the grants-in-aid appropriations bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB81 | Pass | This Bill clarifies language allowing for the direct deposit of child support owed and collected by employers from individuals under a support order from the Family Court. In addition, this Bill requires employers who have 50 or more employees to sen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of Georgetown to give the Town Council the authority to impose and collect a lodging tax, as permitted by § 908 of Title 22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act will allow facilities in Sussex County to sell gasoline that does not contain ethanol provided such fuel is for vessels. Sussex County comfortably meets the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone, and removing ethanol f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To Senate Environmental & Natural Resources Committee |
| HB240 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2009, New Hampshire was the first state to develop a statewide Gun Shop Project, reaching out to gun shops regarding the role they can play in suicide prevention. In the years since, at least 21 other states have implemented similar campaigns. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB105 | Pass | Step therapy protocols are a mechanism by which health insurance companies require patients to try one or more prescriptions drugs before coverage is provided for the actual drug prescribed by the patients health care provider. This Act creates a Ste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| HB168 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the burial benefit upon the death of an individual receiving a pension under the State Employees Pension plan from $7,000 to $8,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB184 | Intro
Sine Die | In order to promote the development of pyrolysis and gasification facilities in Delaware and realize environmental benefits, this Act creates a classification of post-use polymers and other recoverable feedstocks and acknowledges their distinction fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Amendment HA 4 to HB 184 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB117 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of children's products, upholstered furniture used in residences, and mattresses that contain harmful flame retardant chemicals. This Act does not apply to the resale of these items. These...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Zoning laws address what land uses are allowed in a zoning district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| HB224 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill expands upon the companion bill (House Bill No. 130 as amended of the 150th General Assembly) relating to the use of single-use plastic bags. This bill prohibits the use of single use paper bags and works to lessen consumption of single use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-14
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB42 | Pass | This Act expands applicability of the Delaware State Fair Centennial Limited Edition Special License Plate to vehicles with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of up to 26,000 pounds, and clarifies that vehicles owned by artificial entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB189 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act adds to the definition of abuse conduct that constitutes the violations of:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Amendment HA 1 to HB 189 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Since 1996, students across Delaware have participated in school choice. Currently, reorganized school districts, vocational technical school districts, and charter schools do not follow the same processes thus causing confusion and barriers for fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To House Education Committee |
| HB31 | Pass | This bill defines Street Rods to correspond with the same age requirement as used for antique motor vehicles, and would remove a fender requirement. Historically Street Rods are open-wheeled vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Signed by Governor |
