| HB399 | Pass | This Bill will create the Inspire Scholarship Program. Inspire scholarships are available to Delaware students with excellent credentials and economic need to attend Delaware State University. The intent of this program is to increase the number of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-10-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB472 | Pass | This bill establishes March 30 as Vietnam Veterans Day in Delaware to honor those members of the United States Armed Forces who served in Vietnam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB283 | Pass | This bill creates certain rights for children who are deaf or hard of hearing in the Delaware School System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB381 | Pass | Current Delaware law allows individuals 18 and older, and those who will turn 18 before the next general election, to register to vote through the Division of Motor Vehicles. This act would allow 16 year olds to register to vote through the Division ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-09-08
Signed by Governor |
| HB384 | Pass | This Act amends the provisions of the Delaware Code relating to the criteria that the General Assembly must apply in determining the reapportionment and redistricting for the State. The Act provides that the General Assembly may not count as part of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB420 | Pass | This Act is intended to prohibit the practice of “post-claims underwriting” by health insurers, as defined in Title 18 of the Delaware Code. Underwriting is the practice of determining, based upon information provided by an applicant for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB228 | Pass | This Act establishes a regulatory system for medical discount plans, i.e. plans sold to individuals which offer them a discount on medical services with certain health care providers. The emergence of medical discount plans in Delaware has created co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB448 | Pass | This Act creates a “Blue Alert” program for the speedy apprehension of persons suspected of killing or seriously injuring law enforcement officers. This program is modeled after the “Blue Alert” programs adopted in other state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB347 | Pass | This Act implements recommendations of the Legislative Subcommittee of the School Discipline Task Force created by House Resolution No. 22 of the 145th General Assembly. Under current Delaware law, school officials have a mandatory obligation to repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB455 | Pass | This bill does two things. It keeps in place the existing Durable Powers of Attorney statute which is relied upon for commercial transactions, changing only the out-dated reference of “attorney-in-fact” to “agent”; eliminating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB453 | Pass | This Act updates the provisions of the Delaware Insurance Code governing the conversion of a mutual insurer to a stock insurer. It is intended that new Chapter [49A] will facilitate the recapitalization of the insurance industry nationally by establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB205 | Pass | This Bill makes it a Class F Felony to strike an emergency responder while violating the “move over” law applicable to emergency vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB269 | Pass | This Bill amends the careless or inattentive driving law by enhancing the penalty for a careless or inattentive driver who contributes to the serious physical injury of a vulnerable user in a public right of way. The Bill defines vulnerable uses in p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB462 | Veto | This bill provides for mandatory fines, which may not be suspended, for the violation of motor vehicle insurance laws in 21 Del.C. 2118, and for the unlawful possession, manufacture, sale, distribution, or circulation of fictitious insurance ID card...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB463 | Veto | This bill is a result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. This bill phases out the two tier licensure structure in Delaware. Currently, the Board of Massage and Bodywork issues licenses to massage and bodywork therapists and certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-08-02
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB481 | Pass | This Bill incorporates all of the changes recommended by the Joint Sunset Committee following its review of the Board of Dental Examiners. The Bill: 1) Gives the Board the power to subpoena records of hospitals as the Committee has done for the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB275 | Pass | The Bill will authorize and require the Delaware Board of Medical Practice, the agency that oversees physician licensure, to require doctors applying for licensure or relicensure to present service letters from health care facilities through which th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB246 | Pass | This Bill creates a Delaware Board of Examiners of Bail Enforcement Agents empowered to enforce standards upon bail enforcement agents. This 9 member board will supplant the primary responsibility of the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB253 | Pass | This Act reincorporates the Charter of the Town of Magnolia. The following are substantive changes thereto: Provisions Removed from Charter The authority to have an Alderman. Annexation authority and procedures. The requirement that council candidate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB263 | Pass | This Bill adds a requirement that a teacher show 2 years of satisfactory student growth within a 3 year period before the teacher may receive the highest level of notice and hearing protections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB306 | Pass | Currently, including during the recent snowstorms, when the Governor restricts vehicles from the State’s roadways due to unsafe conditions, a criminal sanction is the only available penalty for drivers who are caught by law enforcement on the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB483 | Pass | This bill exempts National Guard members and reservists who are called to active duty outside of the State from payment of late fees for renewal of State-issued licenses, including hunting and driver’s licenses, as long as the appropriate crede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB316 | Pass | This Bill would restrict the use of covenants, restrictions, and conditions in deeds, contracts and other legal instruments, which prohibit or unreasonably restrict the installation and use of ground mounted solar energy systems on land zoned residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB266 | Pass | This Act will strengthen Delaware’s Green Energy Fund by providing greater discretion to the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control in order to effectively allocate such funds for the purpose of stimulating t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB267 | Pass | This bill will further strengthen net energy metering provisions by providing customers the opportunity to aggregate individual meters for the purpose of allocating net metering credits to electricity accounts other than the account that hosts an ene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB431 | Pass | This bill repeals the current Town of Wyoming Charter and adopts a new Town of Wyoming Charter. This bill carries over without significant changes many sections and subsections of the former charter to the new charter and such sections are not mentio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB452 | Pass | This Act grants constable powers to certain juvenile probation and parole officers working for the Division of Youth Rehabilitative Services as designated by the Secretary of the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families, includi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB285 | Pass | Federal laws require polling places used in federal elections to be accessible. Likewise, the State Election Code imposes a duty on county departments of election to designate only “readily accessible polling places”. This bill would faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB395 | Pass | This act amends the municipal charter of the Town of Bethany Beach regarding the procedure governing the referendum power (to provide a specific format for any referendum petition) and to clarify that non-resident natural persons holding title to rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB433 | Pass | This bill tracks similar legislation relating to alternative dispute resolution procedures in the Court of Chancery that were previously enacted. This bill is intended to preserve and further Delaware’s pre-eminence in offering cost-effective o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB371 | Pass | Delaware law currently does not allow the parties in commercial loan situations to agree to require insurance policies be given to lenders as evidence of insurance on the collateral, thus inhibiting the freedom of contract. The purpose of this change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB398 | Pass | This bill authorizes the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to extend the muskrat open season pursuant to regulations. By regulation the Department will be able to consider severe winter weather conditions and the status of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB378 | Pass | This bill strikes 1500(8) of Title 26 of the Delaware Code which has the unintended consequence of mandating a decoupled design mechanism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB488 | Pass | This Act clarifies that the $100 fee assessed by the Division of Public Health for plumbing permits applies solely to new construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB427 | Pass | This bill provides that a person holding a combative sports entertainment event must provide for adequate security and emergency equipment and personnel to be present at the event. Additionally, if the services of any fire company, police agency, par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB437 | Pass | This bill allows an active duty member of the U.S. armed services to be deemed a resident of the State for the purpose of obtaining a Delaware hunting, trapping, or fishing license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB464 | Pass | This Bill incorporates the recommendations of the Joint Sunset Committee and amends Chapters 64, 66, 66B, and 71A of Title 16 by updating obsolete language and procedures, revising procedures to make them more effective and efficient, removing confli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB307 | Pass | This Bill is a companion bill to Senate Bill 306 which creates a 3-tiered driving restriction system for future storms or other emergencies. A person who violates a Level 2 Driving Restriction or Level 3 Driving Ban pursuant to 3116(b)(12), Title 20 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB322 | Pass | This Bill prohibits individuals or private entities from charging Private Transfer Fees on real property. This bill does not change the ability of the State of Delaware or its political subdivisions from levying transfer taxes as authorized by statut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB323 | Pass | Sections 1 and 2 of this Bill clarify the definition of acupuncture. Section 2 of this Bill allows acupuncture detoxification specialists to be licensed to perform the limited auricular point protocol for treatment of alcoholism, nicotine dependency,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB449 | Pass | This bill merely makes a technical change by indicating that Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission appointments are based on county council districts rather than representative districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB451 | Pass | This bill clarifies that Family Court may extend an ex parte order up to 30 days, for purposes other than effectuating service, where necessary to continue protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB447 | Pass | This Bill would permit the sale of beer made on the premises to consumers for consumption on the premises similar to that currently permitted under Delaware law for Farm Wineries. This will encourage tourism at the Microbreweries licensed in this Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB280 | Pass | This bill establishes health, adoption, and record keeping requirements for animal shelters operating in Delaware and updates the euthanasia provisions applying to shelters. Author: Senator Blevins
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB281 | Pass | This Bill modifies the provisions for failing to have proof of automobile insurance in possession. It clarifies the process by which the charge may be dismissed if proof of insurance is subsequently shown and provides that certain other accompanying ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB286 | Pass | This Bill makes three regulatory changes to the Delaware Board of Nursing. The Bill allows for representation on the Board by a nurse educator, eliminates the need of a quorum to issue a written decision previously determined by a quorum of the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB256 | Pass | Delaware law is unclear whether, for purposes of this Section, the 10 year requirement applies to the original term of the lease as of the date it was entered into or the remaining balance of the term at the time of the mortgage transaction. The gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB480 | Pass | This legislation implements DNREC’s reorganization by separating the current Division of Air and Waste Management into the Division of Waste Management and Division of Air Quality; changes the name of the Division of Soil and Water Conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB482 | Pass | This Act implements the recommendations of the Joint Sunset Committee that the Delaware Higher Education Commission be dissolved and its functions transferred to the Delaware Higher Education Office within the Department of Education. The bill also m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB361 | Pass | This act makes it clear that a candidate for State office has a duty to file the financial disclosure reports which are required to be filed pursuant to Chapter 58 of Title 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-07-23
Signed by Governor |
