| SJR6 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB310 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2011 Appropriation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB171 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act provides a method in which persons may contest allegations or presumptions of biological parentage under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
SS 1 for SB 171 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB169 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act eliminates the five-year waiting period for a person who has successfully completed the Probation Before Judgment (“PBJ”) program, and the two-year waiting period for a person who has successfully completed the First Offenders Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
HS 1 for HB 169 - Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 37 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB435 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act prevents unreasonable deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance charges for chiropractic care. Some managed care providers have arbitrarily classified chiropractors as “specialists” in order to charge copayments and deductibles tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-01
HS 1 for HB 435 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HJR10 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution creates a committee to develop a model curriculum unit to instruct students in the history of Organized Labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Reported Out of Committee (FINANCE) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| SB328 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Constitutional Amendment will increase the annual amount of compensation an officer must receive, from such position, before Senate confirmation is required. This Bill will increase the current amount of five hundred dollars to fifteen hundred d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill, known as “Shaun’s Law”, creates dram shop liability under the limited circumstances of when a bar or restaurant, intentionally or recklessly sells alcohol to an intoxicated person for on premises consumption, and that per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Stricken |
| HB473 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act is intended to require all property and casualty insurance companies doing business in the State of Delaware to annually submit to the Department of Insurance the opinion of an appointed actuary entitled “Statement of Actuarial Opinion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 40 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SCR38 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution urges the Delaware Heritage Commission to undertake the state’s official observance of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War with various events and publications during the anniversary period, 2011-2015. It fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB60 | Engross
Sine Die | This Bill prohibits public schools, including charter schools, and school districts from making available or serving food with more than 0.5 gram of artificial trans fatty acids to students in grades K through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Reported Out of Committee (FINANCE) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB485 | Pass | This bill defines the Division of Professional Regulation as a "criminal justice agency" for purposes of Chapters 85 and 86 of Title 11. As a result, the Division will be provided greater access to information maintained by the State Bureau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HCR59 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution recognizes the month of October, 2010, as “Dwarfism Awareness Month” in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR60 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution recognizes the week of October 3, 2010, as “Delaware Long-Term Care Residents’ Rights Week” and praises the Delaware Chapter of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care for its efforts to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB348 | Enroll
Sine Die | This purpose of this Act is to provide greater protections for Delaware’s vulnerable and infirm adults, individuals the General Assembly considers to be particularly at risk of physical, emotional and/or financial exploitation. The Act creates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
HS 1 for HB 348 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill requires an expedited authorization process for the replacement or rebuilding of docks, piers, or bulkheads when they are being rebuilt on the existing or previously existing structural footprint. If the Secretary wrongfully denies such app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Stricken |
| SB259 | Pass | This Bill establishes a new subchapter in Chapter 17 of Title 24. It defines the practice of genetic counseling and specifies the grounds for obtaining the license to practice genetic counseling. It also sets out the grounds for disciplining a licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB496 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes a tax credit for Delaware taxpayers who invest in Certified Delaware Investment Funds. The purpose of the tax credit, equal to 25% of the amount of such investment, is to encourage investment in Delaware-based venture capital fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB497 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill amends House Bill No. 291, as amended by House Amendment Nos. 1 and 4 (Laws of Delaware, Volume 77, Chapter 85) relating to Estate Tax. It removes the Sunset date of July 1, 2013 and replaces that with a termination date of July 30, 2010, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| SCR37 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution establishes the Criminal Justice Statistical Review Committee to make recommendations based upon the work of the Statistical Analysis Center. It also commends the Statistical Analysis Center on its efforts and calls for the publishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SCR39 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes July 6, 2010 as Independent Business Owners Day in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SR18 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution establishes a Teacher Hiring Task Force. The Task Force is to consider ways to hire teachers earlier in the calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SR20 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution encourages public community and school libraries to review their library collection development policies to ensure that library materials are appropriately classified and that the public has the opportunity to provide input into such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SR21 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Resolution respectfully urges the U. S. Congress to enact S. 2747 and H. R. 3534, pertaining to continued funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB456 | Pass | This act would require a physician or physician's assistant treating a person 15 years of age or younger to have another adult in the room when that child is disrobed, partially disrobed or otherwise undergoing certain physical examinations. That add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB457 | Pass | This act implements several recommendations made by Dean Linda Ammons and the Delaware Department of Justice concerning additional training for the medical community and law enforcement on the prevention of child sexual and physical abuse and mandato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB458 | Pass | This act improves the licensure and renewal requirements of Delaware law for physicians. Section 1 requires disclosure an applicant for licensure or renewal to disclose any professional regulatory investigation, and requires physicians to be fingerpr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB459 | Pass | This act improves the reporting process of the Board of Medical Practice by strengthening the Board's authority to police unprofessional conduct and clarifying and simplifying the Board's administrative procedures to improve the efficiency of the boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB296 | Pass | This act reorganizes and renames the Board of Medical Practice to better reflect the Board's responsibilities and improve public understanding of the Board's role. The act also expedites resolution of emergency cases, improves the investigatory autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB297 | Pass | This act promotes the reporting of child abuse and allegations of unprofessional practice by healthcare practitioners and institutions. Section 1 clarifies that the mandatory duty to report child abuse or neglect applies to all persons, and specifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB298 | Pass | This act increases the incentive for persons with a mandatory reporting obligation under the Medical Practice Act to comply with their obligation under that Act. Sections 1 and 2 of the bill give the Board of Medical Practice additional flexibility t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB229 | Pass | This Act implements one of the recommendations made in the Final Report of the Independent Review of the Earl Brian Bradley Case which was commissioned by the Governor and was issued on May 10, 2010. The Act clarifies who is in a “position of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB491 | Intro
Sine Die | This act authorizes the Division of Child Support Enforcement to release information to a court-approved guardian or a person appointed pursuant to a durable power of attorney.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | This legislation is based on the Marijuana Policy Project’s model medical marijuana legislation. The Bill creates an exception to a state’s criminal laws to permit the doctor-advised medical use of marijuana by patients with serious medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
SS 1 for SB 94 - Laid On Table in Senate |
| HB317 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill provides that any person who solicits door to door sale shall display a door to door salesperson identification card which shall include the person’s name, employer, employer telephone number, employer address and State of Delaware bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Amendment HA 6 - Introduced in House |
| HR48 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution directs the Delaware Economic Development Office to study the costs and impact of undocumented immigration on the State of Delaware and to submit a comprehensive report on the study to the House by January 11, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| SR19 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Resolution honors the memory of prominent Wilmington Civic Leader Wendell Howell, Sr., who away on the 21st Day of June, 2010, at the age of 67 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB119 | Enroll
Sine Die | This act will amend existing law by increasing the required minimum percentage of renewable energy supply to Delaware customers, such as solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power. The act achieves this goal by setting a minimum percentage of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
SS 1 for SB 119 - Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 28 YES 7 NO 0 NOT VOTING 6 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB369 | Engross
Sine Die | This Bill deems as public reports any non-security reports regarding State agencies paid for by public funds, including accreditation reports of all State agencies, but only after all personal identification data of students, patients, wards of the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 37 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB495 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act decreases certain business and occupational tax rates, known as gross receipt taxes, by 6.7% across the board. The reduction is funded by a reduction in the State workforce by 500 positions, through attrition, implemented on a rolling basis....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Introduced in House and assigned to Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB386 | Pass | This bill requires school board members to receive training concerning special education due process hearings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB387 | Pass | This bill provides for certain notice provisions concerning due process hearings involving children with disabilities relating to education of those children. Additionally, the bill provides that before a school district can appeal the decision of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act implements certain recommendations made in the Department of Educations’ Standardized School Code of Conduct Policies Report, prepared in response to House Resolution Number 33. The Act requires the Department of Education to promulgat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (EDUCATION) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| HB489 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act creates a special license plate for Flyers Charities which will help raise both money and awareness for the charity’s philanthropic activities in Delaware. The threshold for license plates is lowered from 200 to 100 by this bill, in or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 39 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB314 | Pass | This Bill amends the exception for agricultural and intrastate construction vehicles by postponing until 2022 the requirement that such vehicles be registered in accordance with their manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating, but provides in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB226 | Pass | This bill increases the penalties for carrying a concealed deadly weapon, when the weapon is a firearm, by reclassifying what is currently a class G felony as a class D violent felony. The bill also deletes a penalty provision that is unnecessary and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB44 | Pass | This Bill amends Delaware’s Health Record Privacy Statute to allow protected health information to be released for specific health research purposes while still adhering to federal HIPAA regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB368 | Pass | During a February 2009 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) commercial driver license (CDL) program compliance review, Delaware was found out of compliance for lacking the specific statutory authority to impose certain federally regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB379 | Pass | This Act makes a technical correction to the Delaware Code. In particular, during the First Session of the 145th General Assembly, the State Board of Education asked to be removed from oversight of the school bus regulations (HB 231 w/SA 1). This Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB184 | Pass | This Bill is a result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. This Bill renames the Dual Party Relay Advisory Committee the “Telecommunications Relay Service Advisory Committee” and specifies the members, the purpose and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-28
Signed by Governor |
