| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 1 removes geographical restrictions on board appointments consistent with numerous other Title 24 boards and commissions. Section 2 removes an outdated provision that is no longer applicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-24
Laid On Table in Senate |
| HB460 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires counties and municipalities within the State to adopt the Standards for Accessible Design in Appendix A to 28 CFR Part 36 and to enforce the requirements set forth in the Standards for Accessible Design.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-24
Introduced in House and assigned to Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Many Delaware domiciliaries own homes in other states that have no estate tax. The Delaware estate tax law could have the unintended effect of causing these Delaware domiciliaries, who currently pay Delaware income tax, to change their state of domic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-24
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act would repeal 29 Delaware Code 5202(d), which requires the State of Delaware to assume additional health care insurance costs in cases involving two State employees who are married to one another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-24
SS 1 for SB 247 - Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 8 YES 0 NO 11 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Currently, Title 9 requires Kent County to notify property owners subject to a proposed zoning change by U.S. mail, publication in newspapers and physically posting changes at each property affected. This Act deletes the requirement of physical posti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-24
Stricken |
| SB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Under this Act the Delaware Economic Development Office will maintain documentation of transfer of development rights and their holders are. Holders may report their current transfer of development rights and any future transactions to the Delaware E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-24
Reported Out of Committee (SMALL BUSINESS) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | This legislation is intended to address circumstances in which an employer is found to have erroneously withheld city wage taxes from an employee. Currently, when applying for a refund of excess taxes paid, the City of Wilmington limits refund reques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-23
Reported Out of Committee (COMMUNITY/COUNTY AFFAIRS) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits |
| HCR51 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution urges the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to work with Delaware’s Congressional Delegation, as well as the U.S. National Parks Service and state officials in New Jersey and P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-23
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB466 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends the existing law regarding specifications for the humane handling, care and treatment of dogs to include restrictions on tethering dogs for extended periods of time between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. and when there is incle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-23
Laid On Table in House |
| HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates the Delaware Film Incentive Program that will provide a loan guarantee to film projects which meet certain specified criteria. A seven-member Film Board is created to review applications for guaranteed loans for film projects, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-23
Introduced in House and assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | As of July 1, 2011, this Act requires the State and its political subdivisions to verify employment authorization status for all new hires; requires public employers to only contract for physical performance of services within this State with contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-23
To Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee |
| SB226 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill would authorize New Castle County to limit the first time home buyer’s realty transfer tax exemption to properties for which the purchase price is less than $400,000, to assist those striving to purchase their first home, while balanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-23
Amendment SA 1 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate |
| HR47 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution requests DelDOT conduct an assessment to discover the conditions under which it would be possible to create a road connection for motor vehicles towing boat trailers such that they can exit southbound SR1 to the right just north of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-22
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB484 | Intro
Sine Die | This act requires health facilities to have an independent peer review process to investigate any alleged criminal conduct by a health care provider, employee, or staff person of the facility when the alleged victim is a minor being treated or cared ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires county officeholders to file the same yearly financial disclosure form which state officeholders must file.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill authorizes oversight by the Board of Medical Practice of health care work for hire contracts. Health care work for hire contracts yield desirable effects to Delawareans as individuals and employers, as well as to the State. Health care work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill simultaneously dissolves the State of Delaware Board of Parole and divides its statutory function and authority between existing resources within the Department of Correction and the criminal courts. This Bill does not alter or narrow eligi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SCR35 | Intro
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution requests that the U. S. Congress and the President take urgent action to enact comprehensive national immigration reform legislation. For at least 135 years, the courts have found immigration to be a clear federal re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
To Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act exempts from taxation by local government real property owned by the Hall Boards, Hall Corporations or Holding Companies of the Masonic Lodges in Delaware. All Lodges in Delaware are charitable organizations under federal law and raise funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Reported Out of Committee (REVENUE & TAXATION) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| SB299 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this Bill is to protect owners of fully approved residential building lots from losing their right to build or expand a residence on such lots as the result of adoption of wetland maps at some later time. The Department has adopted reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-17
Stricken |
| HB478 | Intro
Sine Die | To assure sufficient State Trooper presence in Delaware, the State Trooper Fund is created. This bill will establish a separate fund to provide supplemental funding for 30 additional State Troopers in the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Reported Out of Committee (PUBLIC SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| HB479 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act updates the Delaware Code relating to Police Chief Due Process by providing that the hearing, which may be private or public, at the police chief’s request, is conducted by a panel of three persons appointed by the Delaware Police Chie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Reported Out of Committee (PUBLIC SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| HB366 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the Section of Government Support Services in the Office of Management and Budget to publicly disclose on the internet a list of consultants and contractors and their terms of service to any State agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Reported Out of Committee (HOUSE ADMINISTRATION) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Modeled on legislation adopted by other states, this Act adopts a “Military Parents’ Rights Act” to provide military service members with certain substantive rights and procedural protections designed to ensure that an absence due t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act adopts the “Delaware Consumer Legal Finance Regulatory Act” to ensure protections for individuals who enter into consumer legal finance contracts. A consumer legal finance transaction is one in which person assigns a contingent r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Reported Out of Committee (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/BANKING/INSURANCE/COMMERCE) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the Delaware Student Academic Reward Scholarship Program. The goal of this Act is to provide students with an incentive to excel academically in the Student Excellence Equals Degree Program. Specifically this Act provides a tuition s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Stricken |
| HB217 | Intro
Sine Die | This is a housekeeping bill that rewords the statute to clarify its meaning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-16
Reported Out of Committee (PUBLIC SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| HB441 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a universal school breakfast program in Delaware to provide a healthy breakfast to all students in public and charter schools regardless of family income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill names the Family Court building in Kent County the Judge David P. Buckson Family Court Building of Kent County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB469 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act will permit victims of violent crimes who have already received the maximum $50,000 award per 10-year period for catastrophic injury to reapply for additional financial compensation not to exceed $50,000 in any subsequent 10-year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB474 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates the Office of Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPAGA). The Bill provides that: 1) Legislative Council shall appoint an Executive Director who, primarily, shall work with and assist the Joint Sunset Committee. 2) The Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Stricken |
| HB476 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill provides a mechanism for providing relief from stormwater management fees imposed on property owners who do not currently discharge stormwater directly into a stormwater conveyance system constructed, maintained, or operated by the local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HR50 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes Tuesday, June 15, 2010 as “Staff Appreciation Day.”.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB315 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act protects the community by increasing the level of services and supervision applicable to those individuals convicted of Driving Under the Influence. The Act protects residents of the State of Delaware by requiring mandatory use of approved i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Stricken |
| HB377 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill addresses an inequity in licensing procedures for out of state contractors in the plumbing and heating, ventilation, air conditioning and air refrigeration (“HVACR”) fields. Currently a licensed contractor from any state can obt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
Stricken |
| HJR12 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recommends that the County Recorder of Deeds no longer be an elected office, thereby streamlining the administration of these functions, reducing government costs, saving taxpayer dollars and improving the efficiency of state and coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-15
To House Administration Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 1 of this Act establishes the Job Incentive Fund, which is designed to provide grants to firms that expand and diversify the most vital components of Delaware’s economy. Section 2 of this Act provides a multi-year funding source for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Stricken |
| HB465 | Intro
Sine Die | This is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to provide for the development of a statewide and integrated recordation system. At the present time, the three counties operate three separate offices that handle the functions of the Recorder of D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
To House Administration Committee |
| HB468 | Intro
Sine Die | This is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to provide for an integrated and state-wide Register of Wills office. At the present time, the three counties operate three separate offices that handle the functions of the Register of Wills. Each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Introduced in House and assigned to House Administration Committee |
| HJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recommends that the County Registers of Wills no longer be an elected office, thereby streamlining the administration of these functions, reducing government costs, saving taxpayer dollars and improving the efficiency of state and cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
Introduced in House and assigned to House Administration Committee |
| SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act names the Smyrna State Service Center in honor of David P. Buckson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-06-10
To Senate Executive Committee |
