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DEHB17Intro
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This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of...
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2024-05-24
Motion to Release Failed
DEHB362Intro
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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.
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2024-05-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits
DESB313Intro
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Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends § 122. New § 122(18) sets forth certain types of provisions that may be included in contracts between a corporation and its current or prospective stockholders or beneficial owners of its stock, even if those...
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2024-05-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee
DEHB300Intro
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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...
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2024-05-22
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 300
DEHB16Intro
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This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
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2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DEHB280Intro
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This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
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2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DESB278Intro
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This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Dela...
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2024-05-21
Amendment SA 1 to SB 278 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB410Intro
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Section 1 of this Act establishes the Legislative Hall Art and History Advisory Commission ("Commission"). The Commission is established to advise and make recommendations to Legislative Council regarding art, monuments, and historical exhi...
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2024-05-21
To House Administration Committee
DEHB415Intro
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This Act ensures that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opportunities. To that end, this Act sets forth the rights of individual...
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2024-05-21
To House Judiciary Committee
DESB23Intro
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Accessory dwelling units (ADUs), also known as in-law units or garage apartments, are valuable and convenient forms of housing that can help to increase Delawares housing supply. In order to expand affordable housing opportunities, this Act requires ...
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2024-05-20
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee
DEHB330Intro
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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 ...
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2024-05-16
Amendment HA 1 to HB 330 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB375Intro
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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...
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2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee
DEHB377Intro
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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...
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2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee
DEHB422Intro
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This Act defines certain facilities which will require an applicant seeking a permit for a new facility, or expansion of an existing facility, or renewal of an existing permit, located in an overburdened community, as defined in the Act, to provide a...
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2024-05-16
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee
DEHB376Intro
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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...
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2024-05-16
To House Administration Committee
DESB254Intro
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This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative. It directs the Office of State Planning Coordination (Office) to study food insecurity in urban and rural food deserts. The Act defines a food desert and directs the Office to expand access to healthy...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB247Intro
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This Act creates a clearer and workable system for ensuring that manufactured home communities with health and safety violations and conditions that threaten the health and safety of people in the community cannot continue to raise rents on residents...
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2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DEHB248Intro
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This Act establishes a pre-permit community outreach process for any qualified project, as defined in DNREC Regulations, that wishes to apply for a permit within 3 months, in an underserved community. Underserved community is defined in (5) specified...
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2024-05-14
Not Worked in Committee
DEHB395Intro
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This Act replaces a temporary hospital cost containment provision from the implementing legislation for the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board that was based on Medicare reference pricing with a provision that limits growth based on a formula a...
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2024-05-14
Stricken in House
DEHB391Intro
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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...
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2024-05-14
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 11:00 am]
To House Judiciary Committee
DESB4Intro
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This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 4, replacing Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4. Like Senate Bill No. 4 and Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4, this Act modernizes Delawares probation system. Specifically, this Act ...
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2024-05-09
Amendment SA 1 to SS 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB388Intro
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This Act updates the Clean Indoor Air Act to include the burning of marijuana or the use of marijuana in an electronic smoking device as a prohibited activity in all the same locations where smoking a tobacco product or using an electronic smoking de...
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2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Development Committee
DEHB387Intro
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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...
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2024-05-09
To House Administration Committee
DESB17Intro
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 99 (152nd) created the Victims Bill of Rights Committee (VBR Committee) to perform a comprehensive review of the Victims Bill of Rights (VBR) and make recommendation to clarify the VBR, strengthen protections for vict...
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2024-05-08
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB290Intro
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This Bill institutes a State nontidal wetlands program and leaves intact the current State tidal wetlands program under Chapter 66 of Title 7. Prior to these amendments, the only regulatory protection of the State's nontidal wetlands was through ...
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2024-05-08
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee
DEHB385Intro
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Throughout 2023, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with potential technical corrections that the Code Revisors identified as the Code Revisors revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 152nd General Assemb...
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2024-05-02
To House Administration Committee
DESB255Intro
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This Act does the following:
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2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DEHB380Intro
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This Act makes technical changes for clarity by adding a definition of mental condition to the Code section that deals with relinquishment of firearms for persons who may be a danger to self or others (also known as a red flag law). It also extends t...
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2024-04-24
Not Worked in Committee
DESB271Intro
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This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Dela...
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2024-04-24
Stricken in Senate
DESB21Intro
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Like Senate Bill No. 21, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 21 this Act) establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General.
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2024-04-17
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB132Intro
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Over the past decade, an increasing number of states have passed legislation establishing a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. At least 18 states have passed such legislation. Of these 18 states, 12 states have a Student Loan Ombudsperson and 13 h...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee
DEHB55Intro
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This Act is the Bill of Rights for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness to ensure that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opport...
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2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee
DESB215Intro
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This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB240Intro
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This Act requires the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (Division) to produce a report by March 31, 2025, that documents home care services as measured using the most common billing codes for the home care industry. The Act identifies the s...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee
DEHB115Intro
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This Act does all of the following:
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2024-03-21
Stricken in House
DEHB340Intro
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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.
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2024-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB247Intro
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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...
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2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits
DESB217Intro
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This Act creates a professional loan-to-grant incentive program to encourage Delawareans to pursue careers in nursing at long-term care facilities. Funding for the incentive program is to be appropriated annually by the General Assembly, in an amount...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee
DESB225Intro
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This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Act.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB226Intro
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This Act appropriates $91,776,567 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee
DEHB325Intro
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This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
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2024-01-25
To House Capital Infrastructure Committee
DEHB278Intro
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This Act requires that a train or light engine used to move freight by railroad have a crew of at least 2 individuals. Violation of this statute subjects the railroad to a $500 fine for a first offense, and a $1,000 fine for a second or subsequent of...
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2024-01-09
To House Transportation Committee
DEHB168Intro
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Substitute 1 to HB 168 applies the lodging tax to short-term rentals and requires an accommodations intermediary to obtain an occupational license and pay an annual licensing fee of $25.00. This bill defines an accommodations intermediary as a person...
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2024-01-04
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 168
DESB180Intro
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This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution that does all of the following:
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2023-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
DESB171Intro
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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 ...
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2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
DEHB170Intro
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This Act does all of the following regarding suspected human trafficking of children:
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2023-06-14
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB220Intro
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This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to conserve, protect and maintain Delaware's natural resources, including its water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate. This Amendment would create an inherent and i...
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2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits
DEHB199Intro
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This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary nurse staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses in long-term care facilities in the State and assigns ove...
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2023-06-09
Stricken in House
DESB10Intro
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This legislation is the Delaware Pre-Authorization Reform Act of 2023.
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2023-06-08
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee
DESB140Intro
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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...
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2023-06-02
Stricken in Senate
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