| HB333 | Engross
50% | This Act creates the Delaware Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Commission. This Commission shall be tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly and Department of Technology and Information on AI utilization and safety within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Amendment SA 1 to HB 333 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB383 | Engross
50% | This substitute for House Bill 383 does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| HB402 | Engross
50% | This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| HB265 | Intro
25% | This act requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally provides pornography and other materials defined as harmful to minors to verify the age of individuals accessing the material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Amendment HA 6 to HB 265 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB447 | Intro
25% | This Act creates Chapter 62 of Title 24 to regulate health-care advertisements, defined as any communication or statement that is directly controlled or administered by a health-care professional or a health-care professionals office personnel. It re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 11:00 am]
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| HB425 | Intro
25% | This Act moves the Office of Medical Marijuana, which is currently under the Department of Health and Social Services to the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner within the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Under this Act, the Marijuana Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB300 | Engross
50% | This Substitute Bill requires the Department of Health and Social Services to maintain a public registry of assisted living facilities that are accredited and/or certified to provide memory care services by an approved independent accrediting organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB401 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Section 2603 of Title 16 to require the Division of Public Health to provide the results of lead screenings or tests to school nurses and require contracts or computer upgrades to include lead results.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
25% | This bill prevents a consumer reporting agency from furnishing a consumer report if the report is being obtained due to an inquiry regarding a residential mortgage loan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB414 | Engross
50% | This Bill amends the Charter of the Town of Frankford. In Section 15 of the Charter, it allows the town of Frankford to levy a Real Estate Transfer Tax up to one and a half percent of the sale price, as opposed to the current provision, which allows ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB375 | Engross
50% | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee. Under this Act, the amount of the premium for a health-care insurance plan that this State will pay on behalf of eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB330 | Intro
25% | This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB155 | Enroll
75% | This bill makes the unsafe storage of a firearm in a vehicle a class A misdemeanor if the person knowingly leaves a firearm unattended in a vehicle and the firearm is not stored in a locked box or container, a firearms rack that is on the motor vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Amendment HA 4 to HB 155 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB319 | Engross
50% | This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB376 | Engross
50% | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee. Under this Act, the state group health insurance program must include a pensioner coordination of benefits policy for el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB223 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the continuing education requirements for nursing professionals, mandating that all nursing professionals receive at least one hour of continuing education in each reporting period on the recognition of sexual or physical abuse, explo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB439 | Intro
25% | Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in housing and property transactions. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 10:00 am]
Amendment HA 1 to HB 439 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB377 | Engross
50% | This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee (RHBAS). Under this Act, the State must continue to offer eligible pensioners first employed by the State as a regular of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB423 | Intro
25% | This Act permits a farm winery to apply for a license for use of a portion of the farm winery premises as a restaurant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB362 | Engross
50% | In 2023, the General Assembly passed House Bill 80, which required the coverage of doula services under the States Medicaid plan beginning in 2024. This Act would require similar coverage under private health insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB407 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes an application process, policies, procedures, operational instructions, and requirements for licensed transporters to obtain and use transporter license plates when transporting vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| HB391 | Intro
25% | Delaware relies on fees imposed as surcharges by the criminal legal system to generate revenue for government services. These criminal fees can be an unstable revenue generator, especially when there are recessions, pandemics, or other major economic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB247 | Engross
50% | There were 139 traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2021, the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2006. Senate Concurrent Resolution 94 of the 151st Delaware General Assembly set a goal of no more than 100 traffic fatalities per year and tasked s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| HB396 | Engross
50% | This Bill amends the Charter of the Town of Delmar in multiple respects. In Section 7 of the Charter, which involves Nominations and Elections, every person over the age of 18 years who has resided in the town for 30 days prior to the election will b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB311 | Engross
50% | In many states acts of violence have been committed with the use of firearms on college and university campuses that have resulted in both injury and death to students and faculty. This Act adds post-secondary colleges and universities to the Safe Sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB405 | Engross
50% | This Act removes the requirement that a juvenile can only be referred to the the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program a second or subsequent time if the juveniles prior referral was for a different offense than the second referral, allowing a juv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB442 | Engross
50% | This Act creates the Affordable Housing Production Task Force (Task Force). The purpose and mission of the Task Force is to investigate and make findings and rcommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on how the State and local governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| HB398 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the City of Seaford Charter to remove the section regarding Fire Department Appropriations, specifically, the City Council's authority to set aside or appropriate up to ten percent of real estate taxes to provide for and maintain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB409 | Engross
50% | This Act defines a Unique vehicle as one not manufactured to meet all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in effect for the model year in which it was manufactured or which does not meet the requirements of the Division of Natural Resource...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| HB316 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a new elections crime: use of deep fake technology to influence an election. Under this statute it would be a crime to distribute within 90 days of an election a deep fake that is an audio or visual depiction that has been manipulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB378 | Engross
50% | This Act requires health spas selling subscription services online to provide a prospective buyer of such a subscription the right to cancel the automatic renewal online. The option to cancel is also to be presented on the website in a clear and cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB140 | Engross
50% | This Act permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual's life in a humane and dignified manner if both the individual's attending physician or attendin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB403 | Engross
50% | This Act transfers the sections pertaining to assessment functions and the New Castle County Board of Assessment Review from the subchapter governing the functions of the Department of Land Use to the subchapter governing the functions of the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB299 | Engross
50% | This Act is the Delaware Libraries for All Act. It explicitly adds public libraries to the definition of place of public accommodation for purposes of Delawares Equal Accommodations Law. It also directs the Delaware Library Consortium to develop and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB5 | Engross
50% | The States Medicaid Plan still limits the reimbursement of Medicaid-covered, school-based behavioral health services to those provided under an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), despite federal pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB274 | Engross
50% | Early, sustained exposure to peanut and egg proteins in the infant diet significantly reduces the risk that an infant will develop a peanut or egg allergy, saving lives and future health care costs. Following multiple clinical studies, the current gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB273 | Engross
50% | This Substitute bill adds 5 additional speech-language diagnosis to the 2 diagnoses listed in H.B. 273 and references that all 7 speech-language diagnoses are classified in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for billing purposes. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB419 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| HB124 | Intro
25% | This Act eliminates animal noise and noise disturbances from the Noise Control and Abatement Chapter in Title 7. This Act clarifies the authority of the Office of Animal Welfare and Department of Agriculture to enforce all state laws relating to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB110 | Engross
50% | Section 1 amends Title 31 to require all health benefit plans delivered or issued for Medicaid to cover services related to the termination of pregnancy. Coverage provided under this section is not subject to any deductible, coinsurance, copayment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB382 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| HB340 | Intro
25% | This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB387 | Intro
25% | This Act is the result of a successful pilot project involving disadvantaged business enterprises in State contracts. In 2023, Section 189 of Senate Bill No. 35, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 2, authorized the Office of Management and Budget (OM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB435 | Intro
25% | This bill creates a new chapter in Title 30 and establishes the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Program (STAR Program) and the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Fund (STAR Fund). The purpose of this STAR Program is to incentivize and attrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| HB400 | Intro
25% | This Act 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 submitting and withdr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB443 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Delaware State Housing Authority to establish and administer Low Barrier Navigation Centers (LBNCs). LBNCs are non-congregate, interim housing facilities designed to rapidly transition individuals or families into permanent hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
[Hearing: Jun 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HB363 | Engross
50% | This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB432 | Intro
25% | This Act updates provisions of the code covering the Delaware Institute of Medical Education Research (DIMER), which creates partnerships with out-of-state medical schools as an alternative to creating a state sponsored medical school. Specifically, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 13 On Its Merits |
| HB317 | Engross
50% | This bill creates a requirement for all sellers of third-party gift cards to display a notice of potential scams involving gift cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB389 | Intro
25% | This Act provides for an annual raffle license that will allow for the holding of up to 20 raffle events a year. If such license is obtained, the organization must provide notice to the Board at least 7 days prior to any raffle event but does not hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Gaming & Parimutuels) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
