| HB218 | 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] | 2011-06-29
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB220 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill begins with the assumption that the Regulations of the Department of Transportation for Subdivsion Streets and Highway Access is basically a good and complete document. This is the internal DelDOT document that spells out the requirements a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-29
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HCR25 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes November 2011 as native American Heritage Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-29
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill raises the fee for various vehicle and transportation related services as recommended by the “Report on Conditions, Planning and Revenue Options for Support of the Transportation Trust Fund” presented by the Transportation Trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-29
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB77 | Pass | This bill provides exclusive jurisdiction to a Justice of the Peace Court in a county where the lienholder’s business establishment is located and, if the lienholder’s business establishment is located in more than one county, to the Just...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB141 | Pass | Forty-eight (48) states have established brain injury advisory boards or councils to facilitate planning, assessment, and improved service coordination for brain injury survivors. Twenty-four (24) of the states, including New Jersey and Maryland, hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB104 | Pass | This bill adopts the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act (“UFCMJRA”), promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission in 2005. UFCMJRA is intended to update the Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act of 1962 (“...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB30 | Pass | This bill adds synthetic cannabinoids, commonly known as “Spice,” “K2,” “Genie,” “Yucatan Fire,” “Sence,” “Smoke,” “Skunk,” and “Zohai,” to Schedule I con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SR19 | Intro
Sine Die | A working group of interested parties including but not limited to state and local officials, environmental groups, industry, businesses, utilities, law enforcement, first responders and civic associations will be formed to assess the risks of tornad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Stricken |
| HB105 | Pass | This Act would allow, but not require, retailers and importers (a.k.a. wholesalers) to donate alcoholic beverages to not-for-profit organizations if such organization has obtained a “gathering license” from the Commissioner. This Bill wou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB106 | Pass | These amendments task the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with sending to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council a monthly report of the homicides and suicides that occurred in Delaware, to better identify fatal incidents related to domestic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB90 | Pass | This Act amends the contract nonrenewal procedures and hearing procedures for Department of Education employees. For employees who have a right to a hearing upon contract nonrenewal or termination, the Delaware Code currently imposes no deadline for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB215 | Intro
Sine Die | At present, Delaware law permits the “lawful use” of electronic tracking (GPS) devices by law enforcement. However, the Delaware Code does not define what constitutes “lawful use” or what procedures law enforcement should foll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HR9 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Resolution declares the intent of the House of Representatives to have the redistricting process open and transparent. Specifically, this Resolution calls for open meetings and opportunities for the public to be heard during the redistrict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Stricken |
| HB35 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act dissolves the State Board of Parole and transfers its statutory functions to the Institutional Release Classification Board ("IRCB") and the courts. This Act does not alter or narrow eligibility for parole, nor does it limit the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-28
Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 9 YES 10 NO 2 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB56 | Pass | This Act will require insurers administering CHIP buy-in programs in other states to cause similar buy-in programs to be offered in Delaware if they should engage in specified transactions or affiliations with Delaware health service corporations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-27
Signed by the Governor |
| HB98 | Pass | This bill is designed to update the Town of Viola Charter to conform with current practice and/or with State law regarding municipal elections. The bill (i) changes the method of selection for election judges (which correspond in State law to Electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill updates Title 7 Conservation, Chapter 6 Endangered Species relating to the conservation and endangered species. This bill models the policies of neighboring states (i.e. Maryland and New Jersey). Provisions in this bill define the powers an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
To Senate Natural Resources & Environmental Control Committee |
| SCR22 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes and honors the young women of Delaware participating in the 2011 session of Delaware Girls State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB82 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill authorizes New Castle County, any municipality or any school district to appeal from decisions of the board of assessment review to the Superior Court in and for New Castle County from any decision changing the assessment of a non-residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
To House Administration Committee |
| HR23 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the historic nature and civic contribution of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and especially its Delaware chapters and declares June 23, 2011, to be “AKA Day at the Capital in Delaware.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB207 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies the process by which an employee organization may be certified as the “exclusive representative” of a bargaining unit under 19 Del.C. 1311A(e).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Reported Out of Committee (LABOR) in House with 12 On Its Merits |
| HB100 | Engross
Sine Die | This Bill revises the background checks required in public schools by broadening the requirement to include all contractors or their employees – such as construction workers or computer service workers – who will be present for any reason...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 10 YES 5 NO 5 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HJR4 | Engross
Sine Die | This joint resolution establishes a Study Commission on Lobbyist Ethics to examine Delaware’s ethics laws as they relate to regulated lobbyists. The 13-member Study Commission includes (i) four individuals appointed by the President Pro Tempore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 41 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR23 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the Comcast Foundation’s Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program winners in Delaware for 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 18 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill adds comprehensive lobbyist reform provisions including additional financial reporting requirements. It also adds conflict of interest prohibitions and limitations on unethical conduct making such conduct illegal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB4 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires members of the General Assembly and statewide elected officials to disclose all separate income and the hours worked in separate employment during days when they perform official duties. It also requires documentation of any reducti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
To House Administration Committee |
| SB53 | Pass | This legislation adds a new Section 1333 to Chapter 13, Investments. The new section provides additional investment flexibility to domestic insurers that are well capitalized by increasing the aggregate investment limitations contained in various sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB54 | Pass | 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] | 2011-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB113 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill transfers control of the application and permitting of certain irrigation systems from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to the Department of Agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
To Senate Natural Resources & Environmental Control Committee |
| SCR19 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution creates a Citizens Advisory Council for White Clay Creek State Park.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB206 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill grants the Board of Pharmacy authority to establish standards and procedures for the collection, destruction, return and redistribution of previously dispensed medications. The drug collection program must comply with all applicable local, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Reported Out of Committee (SUNSET COMMITTEE (POLICY ANALYSIS & GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY)) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB37 | Enroll
Sine Die | Article IV, Section 29 currently provides that, after completing an initial four-year term successfully enough to warrant reappointment and confirmation, succeeding terms would then be for six years. This Amendment would provide that Justices of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act would prohibit all members of the General Assembly from being employed by the State of Delaware while in office, unless the member was already a State employee at the time the member was elected to the General Assembly, or the member became ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-23
Amendment HA 3 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB97 | Engross
Sine Die | This Bill provides that if an owner desires to raise the average rentals charged to homeowners in a manufactured home community more than the increase in the Federal Consumer price Index for the preceding year, the owner must seek approval of the Gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 9 YES 9 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB94 | Pass | This bill provides that no new oyster harvesting licenses may be issued. The bill provides for a method to transfer current existing oyster harvesting licenses. The bill also provides that an oyster harvesting license expires on an annual basis. If a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB88 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act allows a hardship distribution from the deferred compensation program to pay off a college loan or loans which are in default.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
To House Administration Committee |
| SB40 | Pass | This Act improves and updates the State’s primary economic development tax incentive program. Specifically, the Act: 1) makes the program permanent by eliminating a sunset provision; 2) better delineates eligibility for tax relief by establishi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides that the City of Wilmington is not to tax income earned by the employees of the Delaware State Police, Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement or Division of Probation and Parole during Operation: Pressure Point. The program was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Stricken |
| SB69 | Pass | This Bill allows the use of academic excellence units for funding for licensed athletic trainers in schools that are members of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association. The use of the units for this purpose is discretionary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB79 | Pass | This Act eliminates the requirement that the Sussex County Administrator be a Sussex County resident at the time of his appointment. The law would still require that the Sussex County Administrator be a Sussex County resident when he actually starts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill codifies the already existing policy that all Information Technology (IT) employees pass a criminal background check as a condition of employment. Such a check is desirable given the sensitive information that IT employees handle, and the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB3 | Pass | 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] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB64 | Pass | This Bill amends and in some instances, adds, language to make uniform the individual courts’ various statutory provisions relating to judicial law clerks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB211 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires that admission to vocational-technical high schools be determined through a lottery system rather than any other criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
To House Education Committee |
| HB93 | Pass | This bill allows for the transferring of certain shellfish licenses after completion of the apprenticeship program in 1920, Title 7 of the Delaware Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB78 | Pass | This Act makes changes to Delaware Code to reflect changes from the Delaware Student Testing program to the new state assessment system, including language changes removing the “DSTP” references and changes in test security because of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB12 | Pass | This Bill removes the prohibition against persons convicted of any drug felony from receiving federal food benefit assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill recognizes the consolidation of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Law-Enforcement Officers under the Office of Community Services. It also directs DNREC and the Office of Management and Budget to develop an actio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-21
Amendment SA 1 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate |
| HB16 | 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] | 2011-06-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
