| SB105 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Selbyville to allow the Town to impose an impact fee to contribute to the costs of operations of volunteer fire companies, ambulance companies, public libraries, or police departments providing services with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB50 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative and Oversight Committee's review of the Advisory Council on Walkability and Pedestrian Awareness ("Council"). This Act codifies the Council, which was first established under Governor Ruth A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB193 | Intro
25% | This substitute adds emphasis to the prohibition that interim alimony may not be awarded to a party that is convicted of a violent felony. This Act prohibits an individual from receiving alimony who is convicted of committing a violent felony, where ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB48 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Council on Libraries. This Act repeals the Delaware Public Library Technology Assistance Act because Delaware Division of Libraries no longer issues tech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB47 | Pass | This Act is the result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Council on Libraries ("Council"). This Act updates the Council's membership composition, defines quorum, and adds other standard provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB49 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Governor's Commission on Community and Volunteer Services ("Commission"). This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB120 | Pass | This bill adds workforce and affordable housing programs to the current list of realty transfer tax eligible expenditures for New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB30 | Pass | This Act clarifies what constitutes a sawmill under Delaware law and adds definitions related to agriculture and silviculture. This Act recognizes forest products as unadulterated materials and makes clear their importance to support a thriving indus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB70 | Pass | This Act adds the following acts against a person's companion animal or service animal to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB71 | Pass | This Act requires law-enforcement agencies, the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, and the Department of Justice to report suspected animal cruelty to the Office of Animal Welfare that is discovered while performing their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB90 | Pass | This bill modernizes the First State Quality Improvement Fund (FSQIF) Act, using language from the field of continuous improvement and operational excellence to align with current industry accepted practices. This bill provides improved accountabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| SB180 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution that does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| 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 |
| SB181 | Intro
25% | This Act provides that a contractor is jointly or severally liable for a violation of the Delaware Contractor Registration Act by a subcontractor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
25% | The General Assembly previously restricted municipal, town, and city police departments from operating speed enforcement equipment outside of its corporate limits. This Act completely restricts the ability of municipal, town, and city police departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB171 | Intro
25% | This bill repeals the requirement that the Housing Director provide notice of the allocation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and Housing Development Funds to the state senator, the state representative, and the chief executive officer of the local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| SB73 | Pass | This Act modifies the Public Works Bidder Prequalification period and changes from the existing 12-month valid period to a 24-month valid period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB33 | Pass | This bill adopts a key recommendation of the Child Protection Accountability Commission Caseloads and Workloads final report approved on November 20, 2019, that Division of Family Services (DFS) caseload standards be reduced from 18 to 12 families pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB57 | Pass | In Chiafalo v. Washington, 140 S.Ct. 2316 (2020), the United States Supreme Court made clear that states have the authority to remove or punish presidential electors who do not adhere to their obligation to vote faithfully for their parties candidate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB10 | Intro
25% | This legislation is the Delaware Pre-Authorization Reform Act of 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| SB65 | Intro
25% | This bill adds workforce and affordable housing programs to the current list of realty transfer tax eligible expenditures for New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-06
Stricken in Senate |
| SB140 | Intro
25% | This Act would move the 2024 presidential primary election for major political parties from the fourth Tuesday in April to the first Tuesday of April. This Act would resolve any conflict between the presidential primary election and the Jewish holida...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Stricken in Senate |
| SB162 | Intro
25% | This Act will establish the ability for contracted third-party agreements between select qualified private companies and the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles to process certain vehicle-related services. This will act as an additional resource if c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| SB62 | Pass | This Act makes minor changes to licensing and registration of limited lines travel insurance producers and travel retailers and establishes a comprehensive framework for the sale and marketing of travel insurance. Specifically, the legislation establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB97 | Pass | In 1995, the General Assembly directed the Code Revisors to gender neutralize or otherwise ensure that a solely masculine or feminine designation never occurs unless it could only apply to one gender. The Code Revisors followed this direction and wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB95 | Pass | This Act adds clarity to the statutory changes made by Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 151 of the 151st General Assembly related to drivers licenses for foster children. This Act clarifies that during the initial 6 months of a Learners Permit, a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB37 | Pass | This act designates rescue dogs as the official state dog.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | This Act promotes increased capital investment at Delaware casinos by restructuring the table games licensing fee reduction currently received by video lottery agents to allow capital investments greater than the minimum amounts required under § 481...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB143 | Intro
25% | This Act makes several changes intended to improve the claims payment process by health insurers. Specifically, the Act: (i) codifies the definition of clean claim adopted in Department of Insurance regulations; (ii) requires an insurer to treat erro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
25% | The State of Delaware previously offered an employer match for state employee contributions to the deferred compensation program. The purpose of the match was to help state employees save and build wealth for retirement and to enable state government...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits restrictive covenants that prohibit or unreasonably restricts the owner of real property from installing or using a clothesline. The average electric dryer requires 2.1 kilowatt hours (kwh) to complete each load of laundry, althoug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB34 | Pass | On March 1, 1875, the federal Civil Rights Act was enacted. Following the end of the Civil War and the adoption of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was to guarantee Blacks equal treatment in places of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB31 | Pass | This Act corrects a technical error in SB 227 (149th General Assembly) by establishing requirements for group and blanket health insurance plans that align with existing requirements for individual and State employee health insurance plans. As introd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB127 | Intro
25% | This Act adds different levels of criminal liability based on the specifics of a case for directors or managers of facilities who fail to take corrective action to protect patients or residents from criminal activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a separate offense for theft of a catalytic converter. A first offense of catalytic converter theft is a class A misdemeanor unless the value of the stolen property is $1,500 or more, in which case it is a class G felony. A second of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB118 | Intro
25% | This Act revises Delaware's death penalty statute to ensure its compliance with the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida, and by the Delaware Supreme Court in Rauf v. State. In accordan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
25% | This Act adds Drug Dealing or Possession - Tier 3 to the list of violent felonies under section 4201(c) of Title 11 in recognition of the association of higher drug volumes and gun violence. Nothing in this act is intended to affect the violent felon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| SB42 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 42 and Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 42. Like Senate Bill No. 42 and Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 42, this Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 42 |
| SB27 | Pass | This Act increases the statute of limitations for filing an action for recovery upon a claim for unpaid wages from 1 year to 2 years, making it consistent with the statute of limitations under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB101 | Intro
25% | This Bill amends the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to establish quantity tiers specific to drug offenses involving fentanyl. This update to the UCSA accounts for the high potency and lethality of fentanyl relative to other substances in its curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| 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 |
| SB60 | Pass | This Act provides teachers and other school employees with the same protection to be absent without a loss of pay as State merit employees for all of the following reasons:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB41 | Enroll
75% | This Act is the second leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to make necessary technical corrections identified by the General Assembly's Division of Research. The first leg of this constitutional amendment was House Bill 452 of the 15...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB77 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a separate offense for theft of a catalytic converter. A first offense of catalytic converter theft is a class A misdemeanor unless the value of the stolen property is $1,500 or more, in which case it is a class G felony. A second of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Stricken in Senate |
| SB39 | Enroll
75% | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment that would prohibit the regular session of the General Assembly from extending beyond 5:00 p.m. on the last day of June, unless the session is recalled by the Governor or the presiding officers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| SB38 | Enroll
75% | This Act is the second leg of an constitutional amendment to the Delaware Constitution to enable the General Assembly to designate who is responsible for providing notice of a proposed amendment to the Constitution and how the notice is disseminated....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| SB85 | Intro
25% | On June 23, 2022, in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022), the United States Supreme Court completely and dramatically changed the manner in which state-level gun laws are to be evaluated for constitutional suf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB84 | Intro
25% | Under this Act, a premium cigar means any roll for smoking that is all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-19
To Senate Executive Committee |
