| DE | SJR8 | Intro
25% | This Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2024, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware and requires that in observance, the State flag be flown at half-staff at State facilities. By recognizing International Ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB248 | Intro
25% | This House Substitute bill clarifies it is only for new or substantially modified permits and specifies it is only for the following permits: (1) Clean Air permit; (2) Coastal Zone Act permit; (3) Solid waste permit; (4) National Pollutant Discharge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | SB254 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB318 | Intro
25% | This bill enables the Delaware Nutrient Management Commission to regulate the application of nutrients to turf by commercial nutrient handlers. The law excludes athletic fields, golf courses, and land used in the production for sale of sod or seed an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| DE | 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] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | 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] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 13 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB319 | Intro
25% | This Act changes the requirements for continuing education for doctors related to Alzheimers disease or other dementias to require that doctors must only complete 2 hours of this continuing education once. Doctors who do not have direct patient inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 11 @ 12:30 pm]
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| DE | HB437 | Intro
25% | This bill modifies the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs employee requirements to make the Executive Director an exempt position, and to allow the hiring of non-veteran employees when needed. This will positively impact veteran families by redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB442 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Housing Committee |
| DE | SB321 | Intro
25% | This Act codifies rights afforded to persons with disabilities that are under guardianships pursuant to Chapters 39 and 39A in Title 12 of the Delaware Code. This Act also grants persons with disabilities the ability to motion the Court of Chancery f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB17 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Motion to Release Failed |
| DE | HB362 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB86 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a right to counsel for indigent parents in DSCYF custody proceedings. Parent representation will primarily be provided by a legal services entity contracted with the Family Court, but may also be provided by the Office of Defense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB300 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-22
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 300 |
| DE | HB16 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB280 | Intro
25% | This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB78 | Intro
25% | This Act exempts from school property taxes real estate owned by Todmorden Foundation and used for the purposes of affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB394 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Health Resources Board, which this Act renames the Delaware Health Resources Advisory Board ("Advisory Board"). Ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB401 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 12 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB393 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of Adult Protective Services ("APS"). JLOSC approved recommendations to modify several areas of the APS statute, Chapter 39 of Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB23 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | HB422 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | HB377 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB376 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-05-16
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB203 | Intro
25% | With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment HA 2 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB44 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes the Office of New Americans to help improve the lives and economic prosperity of new Americans who come to Delaware and of all Delawareans generally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB298 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees (JLOSC) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (Commission), whose purpose is to improve the response to and redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment HA 1 to HB 298 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | 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] | 2024-05-14
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 10:30 am]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB388 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HCR121 | Intro
25% | This Concurrent Resolution dedicates the month of April 2024 as "Financial Literacy Month" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB311 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB366 | Intro
25% | This Act sunsets the Technology Investment Council ("TIC"). The Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("JLOSC") reviewed TIC in 2022 and, as a result of the review, JLOSC sponsored House Bill No. 357 of the 151st Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB368 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Provider Advisory Board ("Board"). Based on its findings, JLOSC recommended sunsetting the Board, which is addressed in sep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB367 | Intro
25% | This Act sunsets the Provider Advisory Board (Board) and is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Board. The Board was created in 2011 at JLOSC's recommendation when it reviewed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB294 | Intro
25% | This bill adds optometrists to those health care providers eligible for the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB21 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB361 | Intro
25% | This Act requires a public school to provide a breakfast meal and a lunch meal free of charge to a student who is eligible for a reduced-price meal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB147 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 147. Like House Bill No. 147, this Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate. This is done by permitting an owner of an interest in real estate to execute and record a transfer on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 147 |
| DE | SB132 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB215 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB240 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
25% | This Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB229 | Intro
25% | This Act extends the right of employees to inspect their own personnel files to former employees. Under this Act, an employer must permit a former employee to inspect the employee's own personnel files that exist at the time of the request. This ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | 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] | 2024-03-21
[Hearing: Jun 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB247 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB264 | Intro
25% | This Act makes the crime of patronizing a prostitute a class E felony rather than a misdemeanor where the person from whom prostitution is sought is a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB217 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB195 | Intro
25% | The Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment DMOST was enacted in 2016 under HB 64 (148th). The DMOST form allows Delawareans to plan ahead for health-care decisions, express their wishes in writing, and both enable and obligate health care pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB168 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 168 |
| DE | 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 |
