| SB25 | Engross
50% | This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| SB244 | Engross
50% | This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB246 | Engross
50% | For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 4 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits |
| SB194 | Engross
50% | This Act allows pharmacists, under protocol approved by the Division of Public Health, to provide HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 Favorable |
| SB232 | Engross
50% | In light of the Federal Drug Administrations recent approval of over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills, this bill expands the contraceptive coverage laws to include over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| SB22 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
To House Housing Committee |
| SB267 | Engross
50% | This Act clarifies various aspects of the States unclaimed property laws, specifically:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
[Hearing: Jun 11 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB198 | Engross
50% | This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| SB268 | Engross
50% | Sections 1 and 2 of this Act update Chapter 8 of Title 12, the Uniform TOD Security Registration Act. Section 1 of this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
[Hearing: Jun 11 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB251 | Engross
50% | The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medical Education (DIVME) was established in 1975 with a stated purpose of creating opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain veterinary training and strengthening factors that would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| SB252 | Engross
50% | Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 252 is identical to Senate Bill No. 252 except that SS 1 for SB 252 corrects a spelling error in the synopsis to avoid confusion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| SB203 | Engross
50% | Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB248 | Engross
50% | This Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is leased by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, "employer" refers to the employer client of the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| SB233 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| SB213 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Millville to restore the authority of the Town Council to impose and collect a lodging tax. This authority to impose and collect a lodging tax was enacted under Senate Bill No. 162 (150th) in 2019 but was in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| SB249 | Engross
50% | This bill amends Chapter 69 of Title 18 relating to captive insurance to provide the Commissioner with additional flexibility to approve those types of financial institutions that would be authorized to hold required capital and surplus of captive in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
[Hearing: Jun 13 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB221 | Engross
50% | This Act provides that the next of kin of a deceased police officer, member of a fire department, or member of the Delaware National Guard is entitled to a Delaware state flag if the deceased person served in at least 1 qualifying entity for at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
To House Administration Committee |
| SB166 | Engross
50% | This Act allows for the delivery of alcoholic liquors from a restaurant, brewpub, tavern, taproom, or other entity with a valid on-premise license. In addition, this Act provides that the acts of a licensed consumer delivery permittee or a delivery d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB202 | Engross
50% | For claims for line of duty death benefits for covered persons, which include police officers, firefighters, auxiliary and volunteer ambulance and rescue company members, paramedics, and others, submitted on July 1, 2023, and thereafter, this Act inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: Jun 11 @ 12:00 pm]
Not Worked in Committee |
| SB3 | Engross
50% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to eliminate the limitations on when an individual may vote absentee and authorizes the General Assembly to enact general laws providing the circumstances, rules, and procedures for absentee vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Amendment HA 2 to SB 3 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB211 | Engross
50% | This Act directs the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association to adopt javelin as an approved event for all DIAA sponsored track and field competitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| SB235 | Engross
50% | This Act brings the State in compliance with the federal regulation published by FMCSA on October 7, 2021, to establish a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse as mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). This act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| SB164 | Engross
50% | This Act allows for correctional officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days following its enactment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB234 | Engross
50% | This bill will extend the timeframe for a customer to apply for a document fee credit refund from 15 days to 30 days. This change will improve customer service by allowing a customer more time to submit the applicable paperwork.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| SB82 | Engross
50% | This Act is a Substitute for Senate Bill No. 82. Both this Act and SB 82 require State programs to provide annual reports to the General Assembly about compliance with federal and State law and regulation that require meaningful access to services fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB208 | Engross
50% | This bill amends Chapter 68 of Title 18, related to medical negligence insurance and litigation, to repeal those provisions of the law that are expired or that are no longer used as a matter of practice in medical negligence litigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| SB147 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a narrow exception to the computer crimes under §§ 932, 933, and 935 of Title 11 because these crimes contain elements broad enough to include actions employees may take to document or report an employers violation of state or fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB197 | Engross
50% | This Act revises State procurement rules to require that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in the development of new landscaped a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB188 | Engross
50% | This Act enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC). The Council of State Governments partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 13 On Its Merits |
| SB199 | Engross
50% | This Act further clarifies the application of the provisions of this chapter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 Favorable |
| SB172 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act makes a pattern or practice of violations by a landlord of a Manufactured Home Community of subchapters I through V of Chapter 70 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code, or a provision of a rental agreement, an unlawful practice under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB187 | Engross
50% | This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Onc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| SB163 | Engross
50% | This bill updates the States charter school law to codify the original intent of charter schools to encourage the use of different and innovative or proven school environments and teaching and learning methods; provide parents and students with measu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-23
To House Administration Committee |
| SB144 | Engross
50% | This Act removes the language "in the capacity of Master" from Chapter 9 of Title 7. This language has the effect of prohibiting highly credentialed professionals who have earned the right to captain their own ships, via appropriate United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| SB99 | Engross
50% | This Act prohibits municipal ordinances that require the eviction of tenants for criminal activity by a tenant, member of the tenant's household, or a guest. This Act does not change a landlord's ability to exercise discretion and evict a ten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| SB26 | Engross
50% | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment that would update the minimum voting age in the Delaware Constitution from twenty-one years to eighteen years. The first leg of this constitutional amendment was Senate Bill No. 294 of the 151s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Tabled in Committee |
