| SB281 | Engross
50% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) Task Force (Task Force). The 152nd Delaware General Assembly passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 establishing the Task Force to study and make findings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| SB174 | Engross
50% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 174. Like Senate Bill No. 174, this Act adds Justices of the Peace, Commissioners in Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas, and Magistrates in Chancery to the State Judicial Pension Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee |
| SB206 | Engross
50% | Senate Bill 89 from the first half of the 152nd General Assembly allowed for state owned-and-operated vehicles used for snow removal to operate with green revolving or flashing lights during winter weather operations. This Bill extends the same use o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| SB245 | Engross
50% | The Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education and the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program were created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure or already navigating the forecl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| SB277 | Engross
50% | Under this bill, the Board of Massage and Bodywork may not issue initial certifications to practice as a certified massage technician for applications received after December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| SB280 | Engross
50% | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates the DIAA's Executive Director from an education associate level position in the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: May 22 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| SB272 | Engross
50% | Pharmacists in Delaware provide some of the same medical services as physicians, advance practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, including immunizations. The General Assembly has recently added to the services that pharmacists may provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| SB243 | Engross
50% | This Act deletes the current Charter of the Village of Ardencroft (the "Village") and replaces it with a new charter that differs in several respects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB16 | Engross
50% | The governance of this State relies on the qualifications and performance of the members of the Governors cabinet. The General Assembly finds that the confirmation process is an important step to ensure the qualifications and performance of the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Administration Committee |
| SB239 | Engross
50% | This Act removes the 5-year term limit imposed upon hearing officers appointed by the Secretary of Labor. It also removes the political party affiliation rule when considering new candidates for the hearing officer position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Labor Committee |
| SB15 | Engross
50% | The governance of this State relies on the qualifications and performance of the members of the Governors cabinet. The General Assembly finds that the confirmation process is an important step to ensure the qualifications and performance of the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Administration Committee |
| SB231 | Engross
50% | This Act removes the sunset provision in Chapter 453, Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware relating to the program established under §9011A of Title 29 to assist individuals who are in or have experienced foster care in Delaware with driver education, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB261 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Delaware Code provisions which govern the Delaware Health Facilities Authority (DFHA).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| 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 |
| SB264 | Engross
50% | This Act removes the sunset provision under § 315 of Title 26, relating to the electrical and natural gas utility distribution system improvement charge. By doing so, the Act leaves the current version of § 315 in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 8 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 |
| SB260 | Engross
50% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. The current process for promulgating DIAA-related regulations grants the regulatory authority to the Department of Education ("D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
[Hearing: May 22 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| SB259 | Engross
50% | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates and modernizes the DIAA Board of Directors' composition. This Act also makes technical corre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
[Hearing: May 22 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| SB267 | Engross
50% | This Act clarifies various aspects of the States unclaimed property laws, specifically:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
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
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 |
| SB223 | Engross
50% | This Act is the product of the work of stakeholders who, with the encouragement of Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 50 (152nd General Assembly), met to examine how to integrate mobile-integrated healthcare and community paramedicine into existing reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 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 |
| SB214 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Millsboro to give the Town Council the authority to impose and collect a lodging tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Administration Committee |
| SB253 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Section 3-701 of the City of Wilmingtons Charter to provide that, with the exception of the City Solicitor, all persons appointed to serve as attorneys in the law department shall attain tenure upon 3 years of continuous satisfactory ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
To House Administration Committee |
| 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
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
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 |
| SB209 | Engross
50% | This act adds adult sibling of a decedent to the definition of next of kin in Chapter 47 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code relating to the Division of Forensic Science. This expansion of the definition of next of kin will, for example, allow the Medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| SB200 | Engross
50% | This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Amendment HA 1 to SB 200 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB237 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the provisions in Title 9 of the Delaware Code relating to the county comprehensive plans for Sussex, Kent, and New Castle Counties, and Title 22 of the Delaware Code relating to municipal comprehensive plans for municipalities with p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Housing Committee |
| SB257 | Engross
50% | This Act changes Delawares law related to liability insurance for rental vehicles. Under the Act, the minimum level of coverage required for a vehicle owners policy of liability insurance under § 2902 of this title is also required for a vehicle own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 21 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security 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
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB216 | Engross
50% | This Act increases the civil penalties for violations of the statutes in Title 16, Chapter 11 related to Long Term Care Facilities and the regulations adopted pursuant to it. For violations that the Department determines pose a serious threat to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
[Hearing: May 22 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development 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
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 |
| SB238 | Engross
50% | This Act adds "victim of kidnapping" to the definition section of the Address Confidentiality Act, allowing for kidnapping victims to become eligible for the protections offered by the Address Confidentiality Program. This amendment is reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
[Hearing: May 22 @ 11:00 am]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB207 | Engross
50% | This Act eliminates the sunset provision contained in Chapter 170, Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware related to xylazine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| SB183 | Engross
50% | The Delaware National Guard is in need of military judges and wants to use qualified military judges who are retired from the Delaware National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 14 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
