| HB294 | Pass | This bill requires that a person who is operating a commercial motor vehicle in violation of the “electronic communication devices” law will have such violation made a part of their driving record. This bill keeps Delaware in compliance w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB227 | Pass | This bill seeks to establish two chapters: Section 1, Chapter 65 that creates “Quality Assessment Fees” for the nursing home or long term care (LTC) provider community, and Section 2, Chapter 105 that establishes a new “Quality Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB393 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill sets certain standards for weighing and posting of pricing information relating to precious metals. This bill is modeled after laws in effect in Pennsylvania.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 41 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB324 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill forbids the possession, sale, offer for sale, and distribution of shark fins in the State of Delaware. While shark finning (whereby a shark is caught, its fins cut off and the carcass dumped back in the water) is already prohibited by feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
To Senate Natural Resources & Environmental Control Committee |
| SB209 | Pass | This Act provides an important tool for combatting obstruction of justice by those who would purposely make false statements to law-enforcement during criminal investigations. Federal investigators and many states’ law-enforcement officers rely...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB199 | Pass | This Bill extends the requirement for drivers of limousines to obtain an endorsement by the Division of Motor Vehicles to operate taxis and limousines in the State. It also expands the crimes that would disqualify drivers from operating taxis and lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB271 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill clarifies the exemption for auctioneers selling real property not needing to be licensed by the Real Estate Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Amendment SA 2 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate |
| HB406 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill amends one of the requirements for a homeowner or tenant to qualify for the Lot Rent Assistance Program. That program provides a credit against the lot rent in the amount of the difference between the rent that would otherwise be charged an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
To House Manufactured Housing Committee |
| HB333 | Pass | The Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012 improves the ability of the Delaware Lottery and Delaware's video lottery agents to offer services to lottery players in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The Act authorizes internet gaming under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB218 | Pass | This bill makes the following changes to Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the “Act”) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act. Section 1. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act covers the licensing of auctioneers and auction firms, and creates a commission to license auctioneers and auction firms and to oversee their activities. Section 6 amends the exemption for auctioneers in the real estate brokers chapter to ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Stricken |
| HB289 | Pass | This bill limits to five the number of short-term consumer loans (sometimes called payday loans) that any one borrower may obtain in a twelve month period. It changes the definition of short-term consumer loan to include loans up to $1000 rather than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB267 | Enroll
Sine Die | The primary objective of this legislation is to clarify some of the existing wording of Title 29, Chapter 79A. Cemetery Registration and Distressed Cemetery Fund. The proposed legislation would make the objectives of the Cemetery Board lucid by clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
To House Administration Committee |
| SCR34 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Resolution creates a State Transition Task Force for Emerging Adults with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs (the “Task Force”) within the Governor’s Advisory Council for Exceptional Citizens (GACEC) with research suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SCR47 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution establishes the Workplace Bullying Task Force to examine the issues of workplace bullying.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 1 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act shall be known as the “Delaware Age 55+ Volunteer Program Act.” It provides incentives for those buying Age 55+ Homes to donate their time and talent to Delaware charities and non-profit organizations. Provided an individual dona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB311 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill significantly updates the laws under which a person can be held involuntarily for up to 24 hours for a mental health evaluation. In place of the current system where a person is transported in handcuffs by police to a hospital emergency dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
HS 1 for HB 311 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB337 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill lowers the number of full-time employees from 25 to 2 for the Police Officers’ and Firefighters’ Employment Relations Act to apply to a public employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 25 YES 15 NO 1 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB381 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a commercial real estate broker’s lien and is patterned after similar legislation enacted in several other states. Commercial real estate brokers perform valuable services making a market for real estate and assisting sellers,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB162 | Pass | This Act implements the September 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for increased HIV testing. Healthcare providers in clinical settings may adopt an HIV opt-out policy in which the patient will have the opportunity to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Existing Delaware law does not address estate property interests in digital assets and digital accounts. This bill will provide executors and administrators of estates control of deceased persons’ digital assets and digital accounts during the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Amendment HA 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB332 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. The bill provides that the Executive Director of the Victims’ Compensation Assistance Program no longer has to submit a financial disclosure report to the Public Int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 41 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB278 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill allows school taxes and property taxes to be collected by tax intercept. The current law specifically prohibits school taxes from being collected by tax intercept. Currently millions of dollars of property taxes are owed by homeowners and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Reported Out of Committee (REVENUE & TAXATION) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are the first responders to all types of emergencies in the State. They provide fire extinguishment, fire prevention, life safety education, and emergency medical and rescue ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Stricken |
| HB392 | Intro
Sine Die | This Delaware Health Security Act will provide all current and future Delaware citizens, our state's budget and future economy and job development a non-government run program and cost effective single payer health care system. This system eliminates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
Stricken |
| HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 344(d) of Title 31 of the Delaware Code currently exempts entities under state ownership or control, such as a public school, from the regulatory authority of the Office of Child Care Licensing (“OCCL”). This Act removes that exem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB369 | Pass | In House Bills 10 and 142 of the first session of the 146th General Assembly, certain transactions engaged in by the Delaware City Refinery in the processes of acquiring raw materials, refining such materials, and distributing refined products were e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB303 | Pass | School Based Health Centers exist in 28 Delaware high schools and provide convenient and effective health services to students. The federal government is requiring that Delaware change the manner in which it bills for SBHC services, by requiring that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB293 | Pass | This bill allows an owner to have their motor vehicle title issued in transfer-on-death form by including in the certificate of title a designation of a beneficiary or beneficiaries so that, upon the owner’s death, the motor vehicle will be a n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB338 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB339 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB340 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB282 | Pass | The purpose of this act is to provide more equitable representation of Delaware’s diverse agricultural operations within the governing body of the Nutrient Management Program. Currently, Delaware’s significant equine industry has no repre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB109 | Pass | The primary purpose of this Act is to provide a party (a contractor, a subcontractor or a material supplier) with the right to file a legal action against a contractor or an owner who has improperly withheld the payment of money to force settlement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that will modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and ensure that the right to bail under the Delaware Constitution is coterminous with the bail right guaranteed by the Ei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 9 YES 11 NO 1 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR52 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes November 2012 as native American Heritage Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill modifies and clarifies the appeal process for final decisions from the Delaware Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner to the Appeals Commission, and the appeal process for final decisions of the Appeals Commission to the Superior Court. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Stricken |
| SB213 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt manufactured homes on permanent foundations with rental agreements or land leases at least 40 years in term and that permit rent increases no more than once a year from Chapter 70 of Title 25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (MANUFACTURED HOUSING) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SR24 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution requests that the Delaware Solid Waste Authority, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Zero Waste Working Group, work with all interested parties to develop a plan with proposed legislation to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Under current law there is no recognized right to privacy in an employee or applicant’s social networking site passwords and account information. This Bill makes it unlawful for employers to mandate that an employee or applicant disclose passwo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Amendment HA 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill provides that any income and/or capital gain received from easements preserving agricultural land shall not be taxed for purposes of Delaware personal income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB209 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act establishes a three-year residency requirement for the State’s Senior School Property Tax Credit for property owners establishing a Delaware domicile after its enactment. It simplifies property tax administration for Delaware’s c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
HS 1 for HB 209 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 1 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill will modernize the process and requirements for issuance of liquor licenses for off premises consumption. The current process and requirements do not consider population growth. Minimum distance requirements are enhanced while increases in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/BANKING/INSURANCE/COMMERCE) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill imposes dollar limits on the prescription drug insurance practice of cost-sharing known as specialty tiers in order to protect patients from unaffordable co-insurance fees. Patient’s co-payment or co-insurance fees for specialty tier ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB327 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee and revises the definition of “Employee” under the State Pension Plan so that individuals appointed by the Governor to a board, council or commission after June...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 40 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR43 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution requests that the Office of Management and Budget and the Delaware Economic Development Office research the potential of applying a credit in the application consideration process when selecting vendors to be approved and designated a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-21
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SCR46 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution establishs the Workplace Bullying Task Force to examine the issues of workplace bullying.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-20
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB347 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill provides that causes of actions regarding the performance or furnishing of land surveys and the creation or furnishing of survey products must be brought within 6 years or 3 years after the discovery of an error or omission, whichever occur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-20
Laid On Table in House |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act To Amend Title 11 Relating To Crimes And Criminal Procedure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB242 | Enroll
Sine Die | Based on national reports documenting misuse of seclusion and restraint within public schools, many states are adopting remedial statutory or regulatory standards. This bill is the product of research and deliberations of an interagency committee for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-20
To House Education Committee |
