| DE | SB4 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 4, replacing Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4. and Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 4. Like Senate Bill No. 4, Senate Substitute No. 1, and Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 4 |
| DE | HB441 | Intro
25% | This Act encourages patients to choose physical therapy, occupational therapy, and neuromuscular massage therapy as a safe alternative to opioid use for managing acute and chronic pain by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB427 | Intro
25% | This Act protects consumers by regulating home improvement contracts. Among other things, this Act provides the buyer with a right to cancel home improvement contracts within 3 days (5 days for those over the age of 62 or with a disability); limits c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 13 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce 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 | HB319 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Amendment HA 3 to HB 319 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB415 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | HB375 | Intro
25% | 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...
[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 | 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 | SB247 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB145 | Intro
25% | Reverse-location court orders and reverse keyword court orders enable the government to obtain location data or technology search data without identifying any specific person as to which there is probable cause to believe they have committed or will ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB59 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a residential drinking water purification system program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB290 | Intro
25% | This Act removes a barrier to higher education by allowing a student who has been convicted of a violent felony to qualify for or maintain eligibility for a SEED scholarship if other eligibility criteria are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| 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 | 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 | HB364 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that individual, blanket, and group health insurance carriers cover drug treatment for the associated conditions of metastatic cancer in the same way treatment for metastatic cancer is covered. Specifically, it requires insurance co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| 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 | SB263 | Intro
25% | This Act limits the use of plastic and other beverage container rings, as well as plastic shrink wraps and plastic tops used to connect beverages, by expanding the definitions of beverage and beverage container and prohibiting beverages from being so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB55 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
25% | This Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Stricken in House |
| 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 | HB70 | Intro
25% | This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the persons 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the persons natural li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB289 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals eligible to receive a pension under the State Employees Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $8,000. The burial benefit has not been increased sin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB189 | Intro
25% | This Act makes clear that corporations and other artificial entities may not be given a vote in municipal elections. Section 1 of this Act prohibits a municipality from giving corporations and other artificial entities the right to vote within the mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB297 | Intro
25% | Due to the rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, combined with the frequency in which developers have gone out of business or otherwise been unable to complete work required within developments, this Act increases the funding required to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB7 | Intro
25% | This Act requires Delaware Medicaid to provide an enhancement to the acute care per diem rate for psychiatric facilities for hard to place pediatric behavioral health inpatients. The per diem enhancement is limited to an inpatient stay of 14 days. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB295 | Intro
25% | Currently Delaware has no cap on dealer processing fees which permits motor vehicle dealers to arbitrarily charge whatever amounts they wish leading to great discrepancy of these fees among dealers and a lack of protection for consumers. Currently Pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB307 | Intro
25% | This Act provides a tuition waiver for victims of human trafficking who are enrolled in the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, or Delaware Technical Community College.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB278 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB241 | Intro
25% | This Act makes clear that buyers and renters of residential real property have the right to be accompanied by advisors during all phases of the property transfer process, and requires sellers and landlords to provide written notice of this right to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-14
Amendment HA 1 to HB 241 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB257 | Intro
25% | This Act directs the Insurance Commissioner, in collaboration with the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Social Services, and Department of Finance to develop the Delaware Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program. Under this program, indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-07
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB258 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act removes domestic service workers from the definition of employee in Chapter 9, Title 19 of the Delaware Code pertaining to minimum wage. A domestic service worker who otherwise qualifies as an employee is entitled to a minimum w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-07
To House Labor Committee |
| DE | HB249 | Intro
25% | This Act updates certain statutory fees in Title 7 and establishes or updates certain permit and licensing fees. This Act also replaces and supersedes 1991 Del Laws. Ch. 86 (H.B. 360), An Act to Amend Titles 7 and 23 of the Delaware Code Relating to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | HB37 | Intro
25% | It is the policy of this State that meaningful sanctions be imposed upon those who allow dangerous conditions and defects to exist in leased premises and that an effective mechanism be established for repairing these conditions and halting their crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB220 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB165 | Intro
25% | This bill codifies the prosecutions obligation under Brady v. Maryland, a United State Supreme Court case, which requires the prosecution to provide evidence favorable to an accused. The purpose of this bill is to ensure the fairness and finality of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB173 | Intro
25% | Currently school employees must use their accumulated sick leave to take off for a religious holiday that is not a State recognized religious holiday. This Act allows for 2 floating holidays per school year that would not fall within a State recogniz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB175 | Intro
25% | This Act adds provisions to Title 21 defining accessible parking spaces, incorporating federal standards for accessible parking spaces found in the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable regulations. The Act also provides additional requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB150 | Intro
25% | This bill is the Cover All Delaware Children Act. Many children who are undocumented do not have access to routine or preventative healthcare, including vaccinations and physicals, because they cannot afford the services. Instead they may rely upon e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB136 | Intro
25% | While the exact number of nurse vacancies in Delaware fluctuates, healthcare providers agree that the current shortage is unsustainable. Nursing shortages lead to error, higher morbidity, and mortality rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB128 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the following new tax brackets for taxable years after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB133 | Intro
25% | First responders, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians, and public safety telecommunicators, are crucial to ensuring public safety and health. First responders are at elevated risk for suicide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
Amendment HA 1 to HB 133 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB143 | Intro
25% | Delaware is one of a handful of states that has no cap other than unconscionability on interest rates for short-term consumer loans. Under Delaware case law, the unconscionability of an interest rate is decided by a court on a case by case basis. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-10
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB96 | Intro
25% | This Act reduces the eligible age of a citizen to vote in school board elections for purposes of electing members to the school board from 18 years old to 16 years old. For all other public school elections, which includes referendums, the minimum vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Tabled in Committee |
