| HB211 | Pass | Section one of this Act would grant access to data from the prescription monitoring program to the Drug Overdose Fatality Review Commission, which would significantly enhance the Commissions ability to meet its statutory duties. In addition, this sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB167 | Pass | Cooking wine contains alcohol but has been exempted from alcohol regulation by the federal government (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) and many states as long as it contains no more than 20% alcohol by volume and no less than 1.5% salt, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB210 | Pass | This bill allows minors subject to debilitating medical conditions not specifically listed in § 4906A(b) the same petition process to have their condition considered as that allowed for adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB73 | Pass | This Act provides clearer language concerning license requirements, gives licensees a much clearer understanding of prohibited acts, discipline and penalties; and grants the ability of the Professional Licensing Section to promulgate regulations, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB107 | Pass | This bill requires the Division of Public Health and the Department of Education to collaborate with local school districts to find ways to help improve the indoor environment in schools. The bill also requires the Division of Public Health to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB55 | Pass | This Act provides greater clarity of language, condenses duplicative statutes and deletes statues that are irrelevant to daily operations of the Professional Licensing Sections regulation of private security, private investigative and armored car age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB217 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act clarifies that subcontractors are obligated to ensure the secrecy of tax returns and tax information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB202 | Pass | This Act addresses new requirements on fingerprinting and criminal history reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and allows the Thoroughbred Racing Commission to continue its long standing practice of obtaining fingerprints and criminal hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | This bill removes the requirement that the Governor must declare a State of Emergency before issuing a Level 1 Driving Warning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB230 | Pass | This bill expands the population of war veterans who are eligible to be awarded a high school diploma.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB69 | Pass | Section 1. Sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 36 of this Act amend Sections 151(f), 202(a), 219(a), 219(c), 224, 232(c) and 364 of Title 8, respectively. Amendments to Sections 219, 224 and 232 and related provisions are intended to provide specific stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB72 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB71 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB83 | Pass | This bill amends the provisions related to board member compensation under Titles 24 and 28 consistent with a recent amendment to the Delaware Constitution raising the maximum compensation per calendar year from five hundred dollars per year to 1500 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB39 | Pass | This Act is the result of the recommendation made by the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee in its review of the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline ("the Board") that the Division of Professional Regulation amend applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB87 | Pass | This Act updates the school stability law for children in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (DSCYF) following passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which reauthorizes the Elementary a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB44 | Pass | This Bill clarifies that every prescriber holding a controlled substance registration must be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program. Further, prescribers who receive a CSR (controlled substances registration) for the first time must reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB86 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Family Court to appoint an education decision maker for abused, dependent, neglected, and delinquent children and children in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families under Chapter 25 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB70 | Pass | Sections 1 and 7. These sections amend Sections 15-108(d) and 15-1102(a)(1)(a) of the Act to clarify and confirm the distinction between domestic partnerships and foreign partnerships and to make certain other conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| HJR4 | Pass | This resolution requires a Delaware Certificate of Multi-literacy be established. The criteria for such certificate is to be developed by the Department of Education no later than August 30, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB48 | Pass | Under this Act, a pharmacist who dispenses narloxone under an established set of circumstances is not subject to disciplinary or other adverse action under any professional licensing statute or criminal liability, or liable for damages related to inj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB85 | Veto | This bill eliminates the use of an enrollment preference for students living within a 5-mile radius of a charter school. This change was supported by a majority vote of the Enrollment Preferences Task Force established by House Bill No. 90 of the 147...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-20
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB94 | Pass | This bill updates the statute governing the Delaware Division of Libraries, revising terminology to reflect the varied roles of Delaware libraries in the 21st Century. The bill also codifies existing responsibilities of the Division of Libraries rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB34 | Pass | This bill expands the list of persons eligible to participate in the Ada Leigh Soles Memorial Professional Librarian and Archivist Incentive Scholarship Program to include employees of non-public libraries in Delaware that join the Delaware Library C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB98 | Pass | This Act establishes the ability to grant a waiver for participation in interscholastic sports when a child exercises the right for choice from one school to another school of choice provided the standards for the waiver are met. In addition, this Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB4 | Pass | In January 2017, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 148th General Assembly in 2016. Whil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB76 | Pass | This Act extends the Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Automatic Residential Foreclosure Mediation Program an additional two years, from January 18, 2018 until January 18, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB121 | Pass | This bill makes the following amendments to the Charter of the Town of Milton:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB215 | Pass | This bill eliminates the sunset provision on the at-store recycling program for plastic bags. The program established in 2009 included a sunset provision until 2014. In 2014, the General Assembly extended that sunset provision to 2017. This bill elim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB1 | Pass | In every December in the years 2010 through 2015, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation enacted that year. While technic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB63 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act updates the Delaware Code relating to the Board of Nursing (Board) by eliminating conflicting definitions of an advanced practice registered nurse in the Code, correcting inaccurate cross-references, and eliminating references t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB199 | Pass | The Board of Pension Trustees has established policies and practices for the administration of the Delaware Public Employees Retirement System. Based on the recommendations of the Boards Best Practices review, this Act will codify some of these polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB103 | Pass | This Act extends the Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit Program annual fees for facilities in Delaware. This Act was developed through the Title V Operating Permit Program Advisory Committee. The existing statutory authorization for the fees suns...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB74 | Pass | This Act fulfills recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee. First, this Act adds language to establish the circumstances under which Trustees of the Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation may be remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB99 | Pass | This bill would require that a resident 65 years of age or older claiming a tax credit against school taxes must be a resident of the state for at least 10 years before qualifying for such credit. The current requirement is only for 3-year residency....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB93 | Pass | This Act provides clearer language concerning security alarm business license and identification requirements for both businesses and individuals; gives vendors a clearer understanding of prohibited acts, discipline and penalties; and grants the Prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB158 | Pass | This bill creates a new type of liquor license for beer gardens. Beer gardens are outdoor venues that operate at least 5 months, of each year and are independent of any other licensed establishment. The licensing and operation of beer gardens provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB45 | Pass | This Bill adds 3,4-dichloro-N-[2-(dimethylamino)cyclohexyl]-N-methylbenzamide (U-47700) to Schedule I of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. U-47700, also known as Pink, is a synthetic opioid recently encountered by law enforcement and public heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB4 | Pass | This legislation amends the Delaware Code to establish the Department of Human Resources by transferring various divisions and other organizational units from the Office of Management and Budget to the newly established Department of Human Resources....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB247 | Engross | This bill sets forth revisions to the composition of the Council on Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| HB184 | Engross | This bill adds to the requirements for licensure as a River Pilot Apprentice that an applicant not have been convicted of a crime substantially related to the practice of river piloting. This bill empowers the Board of Pilot Commissioners to waive su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB24 | Pass | This Act removes the requirement that a psychiatrist be the physician who signs the written certification in support of an applicant's application for medical marijuana and adds anxiety to the list of debilitating conditions which a person can ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB170 | Engross | This legislation, the Angel Investor Job Creation and Innovation Act for Small Technology Companies, creates an incentive for qualified angel investors to invest capital in qualified Delaware small technology companies..
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| HB201 | Pass | This Act clarifies that after a physician-patient relationship has been properly established in accordance with this section, subsequent communications and treatment may be conducted as the doctor and patient deem appropriate. As with all practice of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB268 | Engross | This bill converts the senior property tax credit from a credit against the school taxes imposed and collected at the county level to a means-tested refundable income tax credit to be administered by the Department of Finance, Division of Revenue. Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB132 | Engross | This bill corrects the duration of revocation to match § 4177C(d)(2) and will make it possible for all applicants who are required to participate in the Ignition Interlock Device program to be eligible to submit an application for an indigent plan. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee |
| HB166 | Pass | This bill changes the times when the sale of alcoholic liquor for off-premises consumption may occur on Sundays to be from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB177 | Engross | This bill broadens the eligibility requirement for an appointment to a board of adjustment in jurisdictions which have adopted a home rule charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| HJR6 | Engross | This House Joint Resolution directs the Department of Education, with the assistance of the Delaware State Board of Education, to promulgate regulations that include specific guidelines to prohibit discrimination in school district employment practic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB126 | Engross | The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 mandated that states allow families that receive child care assistance to continue receiving that assistance for at least 90 days after losing their job provided they are seeking employment durin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
