Sponsored by Heffernan - Delaware (Current)
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE | SB97 | This Act adds the term “gender identity” to the already-existing list of prohibited practices of discrimination and hate crimes. As such, this Act would forbid discrimination against a person on the basis of gender identity in housing, em... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-18 Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB120 | This bill allows the Secretaries of the Department of Finance and the Department of Health and Social Services, in consultation with one another, to establish the exact rates to be charged, subject to maximum rates set forth in the bill. The bill fur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (FINANCE) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB194 | This Legislation aligns the penalty for non-compliance with the non-nurse midwives law and regulations with the penalty for practicing medicine without a license. It imposes civil and/or criminal penalties for violations of existing law. The increase... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-18 |
| DE | SB12 | This bill adds AEMTs and paramedics to the class of victims that raises the level of offense to a class A misdemeanor. This change is necessary because last year, SB 210, which updated EMS practitioner titles, was enacted into law but those new title... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-13 |
| DE | HB117 | This bill permits the Delaware National Guard Counterdrug unit to receive equitably shared funds to finance law enforcement functions under the National Guard Mutual Assistance Counterdrug Activities Compact. Functions may include, but not be limited... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-13 |
| DE | SB136 | This bill deletes the requirement that a petition for termination of parental rights contain a statement that each birth parent has been advised of the right to file an affidavit as provided by subchapter III of Chapter 9. The affidavit in subchapter... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-13 |
| DE | SCR24 | This Concurrent Resolution supports the Parents’ Guide to Cord Blood Foundation educational campaign. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-13 Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 18 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| DE | HB179 | The Bill will reduce average customer energy bills and will create local jobs by driving investments in energy efficiency that displace more expensive energy supply purchases. Energy efficiency investments create in-state jobs, lower energy bills for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-13 Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 38 YES 0 NO 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| DE | HB22 | This Bill protects from discrimination in hiring and retention those rendering service to volunteer fire and ambulance companies. Specifically prohibited are discriminatory adverse actions related to compensation, terms, conditions and privileges. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 |
| DE | HB21 | This bill establishes the Volunteer Emergency Responders Job Protection Act. The Act prohibits an employer from terminating or taking any other disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency responder if such employee, when acti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 |
| DE | SB16 | This bill would require owners of lost or stolen handguns to report such loss or theft within 48 hours of discovery. Owners may report such loss or theft to the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction, or to any State Police Troop. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB42 | This bill ensures that individuals who are eligible for the Federal Medicare program due to disability are able to purchase the same Medicare supplement policies available to individuals eligible for Medicare due to age. This bill also ensures that t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 |
| DE | SB51 | This bill strengthens teacher preparation by raising the standards for entry into the teaching profession. More specifically, the bill requires all Delaware teacher preparation programs to set high admission and completion requirements, to provide hi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB94 | This bill improves and clarifies the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s process and criteria for issuing permits to handle or possess protected wildlife, finfish or shellfish for scientific, education or propagation pur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB67 | This bill would provide an exemption to traffic laws for participants in a foot race or walking event on a highway to run or walk with the flow of traffic during an approved event. Currently, there is the potential for a conflict with Delaware Code r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (PUBLIC SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB60 | This bill would allow a person or party that has suffered a loss, damages, or injury as the result of the intentional fraud or criminal misconduct of an attorney during the course of a civil action in the Courts of the State of Delaware to bring suit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB78 | This legislation establishes a Wetlands Advisory Committee to develop comprehensive recommendations for conserving and restoring non-tidal wetlands in Delaware, including evaluating national best practices and standards, evaluating incentive-based pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (NATURAL RESOURCES) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB84 | The Neighborhood Assistance Tax Credit program has brought about significant investment in neighborhood organizations, benefitting low and moderate income individuals living in impoverished areas and catalyzing partnerships among community-based deve... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (REVENUE & FINANCE) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB90 | This bill gives the Division of Professional Regulation authority to issue citations and monetary fines when individuals and businesses are found engaging in unlicensed professional practices regulated by a board, commission, council or committee und... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (SUNSET) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB153 | This bill involves the proceeds from the sale of property seized due to violations of Title 4, Chapter 11, such as illegally transported liquor. The bill raises the limit of proceeds which the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement can retain in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (PUBLIC SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB148 | This bill would direct the Office of the State Treasurer to add a Roth option to state sponsored 403(b) and 457(b) savings plans that are offered to eligible teachers and state employees. This bill would not require the state to contribute any additi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 |
| DE | HB162 | This bill is designed to bring the health insurance provisions of the Delaware Insurance Code in compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”). Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 14 (in part) of this bill amend the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/BANKING/INSURANCE/COMMERCE) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB172 | This bill ensures that new applicants for a journeyperson electrician license must have performed 8000 hours of electrical work and passed the journeyperson exam before such person can obtain a journeyperson electrician license. The bill also require... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (LABOR) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB100 | Based on national reports documenting misuse of seclusion and restraint within public schools, many states are adopting remedial statutory or regulatory standards. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Education issued authoritative guidance encouraging st... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB160 | Delaware is the only state on the East Coast of the United States that does not have a shellfish aquaculture industry. Shellfish aquaculture can provide significant economic benefits to coastal communities while improving the water quality and enhanc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 |
| DE | HB191 | This bill expands the business or occupation category of permissible absentee voters to include those who are unable to appear at the polling place “because of the nature of such person’s business occupation, including the business or occ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 |
| DE | SB117 | The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact (IWVC) is a nationwide law enforcement network aimed at preventing lawbreakers who have lost their hunting, fishing, and/or trapping privileges in one state due to egregious crimes, such as poaching against wi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB45 | This Act required pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers and scrap metal processors to photograph all jewelry which they purchase or otherwise acquire. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-06 Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB65 | This Act intends to consolidate the Clean Water Advisory Council for the Delaware Water Pollution Control Revolving Loan Fund and the advisory activities of the Cabinet Committee on State Planning for the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund into the W... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-06 Reported Out of Committee (NATURAL RESOURCES) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB49 | This bill reduces the minimum number of reassignments a dealer must buy from 10 to 5. Dealers can still purchase quantities greater than 5 if needed. Additionally, this bill makes 2504 consistent with 2129(b), Title 21 of the Delaware Code which al... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| DE | SB25 | This legislation eliminates the requirement that the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission has to maintain an office in the City of Wilmington. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (AGRICULTURE) in House with 6 Favorable |
| DE | SB27 | This Act would authorize the Department of Education, pending available funds, to offer competitive two year start-up grants to public schools for the purpose of developing new programs for students capable of performing accelerated academic work. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 Amendment HA 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB125 | This bill allows for the reinstatement of parental rights where a child remains in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families, despite reasonable efforts to secure a permanent plan of adoption. Where it is in th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB139 | The Business Enterprise Program (BEP) of the Division of Health and Social Services, Division of the Visually Impaired, broadens economic opportunities for blind residents of Delaware by creating snack bars, cafeterias, and vending route facilities o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (HOUSE ADMINISTRATION) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB88 | This bill provides for continuity of care for patients transported from a facility in another state to Delaware by allowing respiratory therapists licensed in another jurisdiction to practice in Delaware for the limited purpose of interstate transpor... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB173 | This bill refines the regulation of residential door-to-door solicitations. Specifically, Section one expands the definition of “door-to-door sale” by including the placement of business cards, advertisements, or leaflets at homes. Sectio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 |
| DE | SB108 | This Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act (also to be known as Grace Firestone’s Law) provides for dissemination of educational materials about, and mandating standards for, protecting those exhibiting signs of possible sudden cardiac arrest. I... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 |
| DE | SB109 | This bill would remove social security numbers from the child support orders and would instead require Family Court to collect the social security numbers of each party at the time the petition is filed and maintain that information in Family Court r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-05 |
| DE | HB38 | This bill changes the membership of the Jockeys Health and Welfare Benefit Board to include, among the six-member board, one active Delaware jockey and one retired Delaware jockey participating in the benefit program rather than two active Delaware j... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-04 |
| DE | HB170 | This bill establishes June 30 as an additional mandatory reporting period for political campaign committees. This bill also requires that the June 30 and December 31 reports be filed within 10 days. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-04 Introduced in House and assigned to House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB21 | This Bill expands the composition of the State Employees Benefits Committee and provides Delaware public employees with representation on the Committee. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-30 Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB99 | This Bill re-organizes Section 351 to be more reader friendly as to the requirements and exceptions for DSCYF to evaluate homes where children are placed with non-relatives. It also changes the current statute which required DSCYF consent before a ch... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-30 |
| DE | HB10 | This Act is the second leg of a Constitutional Amendment which eliminates the existing five-year waiting period before eligible felons who have fully discharged their sentences may have their voting rights restored. This Act shall be known as the Haz... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-28 Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB40 | This bill extends the Automatic Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program and the Office of Foreclosure Prevention for four additional years beyond the current sunset date in January 2014. The bill also makes technical changes to the adminis... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-28 Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB42 | This bill adds adult aunts and uncles to the list of relatives who may act as a surrogate to make health care decisions for an adult patient if the patient lacks capacity and there is no agent or guardian, no prior designated surrogate, the prior des... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-28 Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB47 | This bill offers more flexibility to the Medical Advisory Board (MAB) by enabling the Chair of the Board to nominate new members in addition to the President of the Medical Council of Delaware and reorganizes existing language by moving subsection(e)... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-28 Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB31 | . This Act permits off-premises consumption licensees who obtain a Growler Filler permit to purchase kegs or partial kegs from wholesalers and fill and cap containers for the customer to consume off of the premises where sold. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR17 | This concurrent resolution proclaims the week of September 14 through September 22, 2013, to be “Sea-Level Rise Awareness Week.” [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB75 | This Act will increase the effectiveness of the Parks Endowment Fund at assisting with the financing of physical maintenance and capital improvements at Delaware State Parks. This Act will also help encourage private investments and donations for our... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 |
| DE | SB89 | This Act confirms that vehicle licensing fees included by motor vehicle lessors in vehicle rental transactions cover only the motor vehicle lessors' costs for registering their vehicles in Delaware. If such fees are higher than the actual charges pai... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 |
