| HB470 | Pass | This Act updates the Delaware Code in relation to the responsibilities of the Interagency Management Resource Committee (IRMC) and the Early Childhood Council (ECC), and aligns the ECC with new federal requirements for State Early Childhood Advisory ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB475 | Pass | This bill makes certain amendments to the Delaware Common Interest Ownership Act (DUCIOA) and the Unit Property Act. Section 1 makes a technical amendment to clarify that the Unit Property Act still applies to newly created condominiums that are exem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB56 | Pass | This Bill amends the Public Employment Relations Act to clarify the police officers and other law enforcement officers provided for in paragraph 9 must be certified as required by the Delaware Police Training Program. This Bill also creates a new par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB402 | Pass | This Bill extends the period that a label can be used following a seed test from 10 months to 15 months. The change is to make the law consistent with the current trends in the Seed Industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB403 | Pass | This bill eliminates the time frame during which an administrative hearing must be held; the current 30 day time period in which a hearing must be held has been inhibiting the ability of the Department of Agriculture to negotiate resolution of plant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB404 | Pass | This bill deletes the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact. The Compact is defunct and there is no expectation that it will be put into use in the foreseeable future.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB405 | Pass | This Bill aligns the licensing and certification of nurseries to the calendar year and requires nurseries to maintain a current list of suppliers and provide that list to the Department of Agriculture upon request. The bill also eliminates the brief ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB406 | Pass | This Bill deletes an incorrect reference to rules for ostriches, emus and rheas in a section relating to fruit growers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB407 | Pass | This Bill extends requirements currently applied to Apis mellifera (honey bee), such as inspection, to all bee species transported into Delaware. Rather than issuing fines for violations, the structure is changed to penalties assessed by Administrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB270 | Pass | This Amendment to the municipal charter of the Town of Ellendale makes the charter consistent with the provisions of the state Municipal Election statute which provides: a twenty day notice of the date of the election; a seven day waiting period betw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB271 | Pass | This Bill changes the name of the Delaware Volunteer Fireman’s Association to the Delaware Volunteer Firefighters Association pursuant to the change of name adopted at the 2009 Convention, and codifies the existing practice of fire company repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB334 | Pass | This Bill removes the Delaware Children’s Trust Fund as a contribution designation for income tax refunds, and removes the establishment and function of the Trust Fund from the Delaware Code. The Trust Fund has been defunct for several years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB231 | Pass | This legislation provides a more permanent governance structure for the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN), by removing the DHIN from the organizational structure of the Delaware Healthcare Commission and by moving toward a more traditional p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB336 | Pass | This Act enhances the Family Court’s ability to protect victims of domestic violence and abuse by authorizing the Family Court to enter the no contact provisions of protection from abuse orders for up to 2 years in every case and, where aggrava...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB360 | Pass | This Act moves the Financial Disclosure reporting date from February 15 of each year to March 15 of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HJR14 | Pass | This Joint Resolution requests Delaware’s U.S. delegation to immediately enact legislation implementing a court fee intercept program to intercept federal tax refunds to pay overdue State court-ordered restitution, fines, fees and costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB245 | Pass | This Act provides that student teacher candidates must undergo a criminal background check similar to public school employees before being placed in a student teaching placement within a public school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB487 | Pass | This Act prohibits County governments from requiring elected or appointed officials to waive their right to receive previously vested County pension benefits upon their election or appointment to office. This Act provides, however, that a former Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB421 | Pass | This bill modifies the existing laws regarding tree replacement for DelDOT projects. It permits the planting of trees within a DNREC-approved and maintained conservation easement area within the same or an adjacent watershed, if the normal mitigation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB183 | Pass | This Bill removes the word experimental because it is not defined.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB260 | Pass | This Bill adopts the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (“UIDDA”), promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission in 2007. The goal of UIDDA is to simplify and standardize the current patchwork of procedures across the various st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB172 | Pass | This bill requires that a person elected to a state office or appointed to fill a vacancy in an elective state office, or who has filed as a candidate for an elective state office disclose the name and address of every nonprofit organization, civic a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB438 | Pass | This Act amends Title 11, 4217 of the Delaware Code by clarifying the term “exceptional rehabilitation”, which was inadequately defined and therefore confusing, so that this term is consistent with the original intent of the Statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB264 | Pass | For nearly 8 years Delaware has been involved in a collaborative effort among juvenile justice agencies to, among other goals, reduce the unwarranted detention of juveniles and provide meaningful alternatives to such detention. While the Juvenile Jus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB265 | Pass | This Bill clarifies that all agricultural related operations be protected from both private and public nuisance actions, unless they result from negligence or improper operation or violate federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB289 | Pass | This Bill establishes the State Council for Interstate Juvenile Supervision as required by the Interstate Compact for Juveniles, codified at 31 Del. C. 5203. The State Council’s role is to administer the State of Delaware’s participation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB210 | Pass | This Bill converts the existing scenic and historic highways program to the Delaware Byways program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB232 | Pass | The purpose of this Bill is to ensure that when a professional licensing board revokes or suspends a license at a hearing, the revocation or suspension shall be effective immediately. However, the Bill also requires that a written order must be serve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB233 | Pass | This Bill mandates that the Board of Medical Practice shall adopt rules and regulations establishing guidelines for the imposition of discipline against physicians and the members of other professions regulated by the Board. The Bill gives the Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB240 | Pass | This Act includes cats in the list of domestic animals which when attacked might cause a dog to be declared a potentially dangerous dog or if severely injured or killed might cause a dog to be declared a dangerous dog. This attack, serious injury or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB237 | Pass | This bill requires that all newly constructed businesses and other places of public accommodation be equipped with automatic doors to make the main entrances of such buildings accessible to persons with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB493 | Pass | This bill exempts a person using a two-way communication device mounted or attached to a motor vehicle during their course of employment with a business or government entity while talking to a central dispatch, base of operation, or with other employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB494 | Pass | This Act excludes two-way radio communications devices with a fixed placement in the vehicle from the list of prohibited devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB143 | Pass | This Act increases the administrative fee assessed against a criminal defendant who has court-appointed counsel from $50 to $100. The $50 fee has not been changed since it was enacted in 1995. In FY 2008, the State collected $345,530 from the imposit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB454 | Pass | In the spring of 2009, the Joint Sunset Committee received a list of inactive Councils from the Governor’s Office. The Joint Sunset Committee notified each oversight agency of Committee’s intent to sunset each inactive Council on June 30,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB388 | Pass | This bill increases the penalties for vehicle owners who are not complying with Delaware law by not registering their vehicles after establishing residency in Delaware. The current fine of $25 provides no incentive for vehicle owners to register thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB239 | Pass | Sections 1 and 2 of the Act is intended to clarify the meaning of the term “willful misconduct” as used in Chapter 33 of Title 12 and governing instruments. Section 3 of the Act is intended to clarify the effect of a governing instrument ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB446 | Pass | This Bill is a result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. This bill amends the statute by: Creating a separate section of the Delaware Code entitled “Newark Housing Authority”; Expanding the existing Newark Housing Auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB365 | Pass | This legislation designates the upper-level management positions in the Court of Common Pleas from classified service to exempt service, consistent with similar positions in the Superior Court and the Family Court. The provisions of this legislation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB382 | Pass | This bill corrects an error in the Delaware Code provision relating to the sale of pseudoephedrine or ephedrine. The law currently provides that a licensed pharmacist, sales clerk or “licensed pharmacy technician” shall require that any p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB423 | Pass | This bill amends the third-party visitation statute. A provision in the statute which allowed two parents to override the Court’s decision (but not a single parent), was found unconstitutional by the trial court on equal protection grounds. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB408 | Pass | The Act requires the destruction of any tobacco products forfeited for violations of 5342 of Title 30, which prohibits the possession of more than 10 packs or packages of untaxed tobacco. Current law requires the Department of Finance to sell any for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB250 | Pass | This Bill provides the means for the Council to approve or reject the hearing committee’s decision in cases where Council members must recuse for reasons such as serving on the hearing committee or participating in the Law Enforcement/Ethics Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB430 | Pass | This act requires scrap metal processors to photograph every seller and report every transaction relating to certain metals. Currently only transactions valued at $250 or more must be reported. Multiple sellers bring in metal items with no one sellin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB432 | Pass | The law currently prohibits sampling of beer unless it is a new product line in the marketplace for less than one year. This Act would permit the tasting or sampling of beer no matter its tenure in the marketplace. The law also currently prohibits th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB262 | Pass | This Bill adopts the Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act (“UUFDA”), promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission in 2008. Declarations of persons abroad are routinely received in state and federal courts and agencies. Many of the declar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB24 | Enroll
Sine Die | This is the second leg of a Constitutional Amendment that will make the Chief magistrate a State Judge under Article IV.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| SCR30 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution ratifies the 17th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, requiring popular vote for U. S. Senators. Although the amendment was officially ratified by the necessary number of States earlier last century, this resolution formal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB500 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2011 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SJR5 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
Signed by Governor |
