| HB170 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the age requirement for compulsory school attendance in Delaware from 16 to 18 years of age. The age increase is phased in over a 2-year period; accordingly, there is a 1-year interim period where the compulsory school attendance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits |
| HB91 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of hospital, raises the fees associated with hospital licensing, and imposes an additional fee for plan reviews prior to construction or renovation of hospitals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB114 | Pass | This Bill raises the time periods for public access to individual vital records from 72 years to 80 years after the date of birth, and from 40 years to 50 years after the date of death or marriage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB190 | Pass | This bill makes several updates to the Delaware Interactive Fantasy Contests Act initially signed into law on July 26, 2017, including the permanent removal of the July 1, 2019 sunset date from § 4860, Title 29 and § 2301, Title 30 of the Delaware ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB40 | Pass | This bill: (1) increases the number of directors on the Board and allows the Board to appoint four additional directors; (2) implements clarifying language; (3) sunsets the former Advisory Council to replace it with a subcommittee structure to allow ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB106 | Pass | Delaware is one of only a few states that does not provide statutory or regulatory authority regarding the regulation of service contracts and warranties. In some states, these products are regulated as insurance products. In other states, the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB5 | Pass | The stacking of sentences can, and has, in some cases, result in severe prison sentences without permitting the sentencing judge any discretion as to the offenders individual circumstances or the facts of the case. In order to provide such judicial d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB118 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act revises the circumstances under which an applicant can be denied a license by the Real Estate Commission because of a criminal conviction. Similar to the recent changes made other professional license requirements, this Act does all of the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 On Its Merits |
| SB103 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2019-06-25
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 12 On Its Merits |
| HB225 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HJR4 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB226 | Pass | This Act appropriates $61,980,700 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB249 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act incorporates a grandfather provision into the definition of resident such that a claimant for a tax exemption who is at least 65 years of age and who was domiciled in the State of Delaware by December 31, 2018, upon reaching their 3-year ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a Delaware personal income tax credit, not to exceed $500 per year per individual for interest paid on student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| SCR54 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and recognizes the lasting impact of space exploration and the audacious innovators who made it possible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SCR55 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution recognizes the 100th anniversary of the American Legion Auxiliary in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HJR3 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| HR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing June 2019 As Amateur Radio Month In Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| 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 |
| HCR55 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution recognizes and honors the young women of Delaware participating in the 2019 session of Delaware Girls State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| SCR35 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the month of June 2019 as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| 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 |
