| HB111 | Pass | This Act strengthens the Office of the Attorney General’s ability to work collectively with the federal agencies and other state attorneys general in multi-state investigations by extending the statute of limitations for bringing antitrust acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB248 | Pass | This bill requires the Department of Education to provide a report to the General Assembly 3 months prior to the sunset date of the enabling legislation for the Teach for America program regarding the efficacy of that program. This will allow the Gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB270 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill provides that a person who is convicted of graffiti and was under the age of 21 at the time of the offense shall lose his/her driver’s license for a period of 30 days for the first offense and between 90 and 180 days for a second or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (PUBLIC SAFETY) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB204 | Engross
Sine Die | This Bill recognizes the success of the Community Firearm Recovery Program. It removes the sunset provision from the original Act. It also provides for the Fund to Combat Violent Crimes Committee to allocate appropriated funds to various police agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 8 YES 13 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB366 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill 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 Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB297 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the mandatory minimum sentence for a 4th time felony criminal offender when the 4th felony is a violent felony, permitting the court instead to sentence according to its own discretion and within existing sentencing guidelines. The c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Currently retail liquor stores are permitted to open at 9:00 a.m. Some stores, however, choose to open later than 9:00 a.m. This Bill continues the process of updating the Liquor Control Act to make it more modern and consumer-friendly. The Bill allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (SUNSET) in Senate with 3 Unfavorable |
| HB352 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill establishes requirements and definitions for recreational vehicle manufacturer-dealer agreements. It also removes the exception to the $100 license fee for out-of-state recreational vehicle dealers at shows or exhibitions at enclosed malls....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Existing programs and services underserve runaway and homeless youth. This bill creates a specific assessment and reporting requirement for the Delaware Interagency Council on Homelessness, in conjunction with the Department of Services for Children,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Stricken |
| HB166 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill exempts the half of the State realty transfer tax for first-time home buyers. This bill also allows the Department of Finance to adopt rules and regulations for an affidavit to state the names and professional license number of the real est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (APPROPRIATIONS) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB292 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires that a background check be completed on a new public school hire before that person begins employment. In an emergency, a person may be hired conditionally prior to the completion of a background check with permission from the scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (EDUCATION) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| HB358 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. The purpose of this bill is to enable candidates for licensure as dentists and dental hygienists to sit for the practical examination required by the Board prior to gradua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Stricken |
| SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill amends the Charter for the Town of Henlopen Acres to clarify that all candidates for Town Commissioner and all serving Town Commissioners must be eligible to vote in the annual municipal election, and to modify the qualifications for voter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To Senate Community/County Affairs Committee |
| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Public projects are being undertaken in a number of States under legislation allowing for public-private initiatives. This legislation allows Vocation – Technical High School Districts and Centers to utilize such contractual approach for educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill creates an exemption from the motor vehicle document fee for fuel-efficient vehicles. This exemption is scheduled to sunset in three years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To Senate Highways & Transportation Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill will prohibit use of tanning devices at a tanning facility by someone under the age of 18 unless that person has a medical prescription. That prohibition is presently the law in Delaware for people under the age of 14. Someone between 14 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware’s seat belt law allows law enforcement to pull over a driver if the driver or anyone in the vehicle is not wearing a seat belt. It is a civil penalty with a fine of $25 plus court costs. However, 4802(g)(2)a. and b. of Title 21 of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (PUBLIC SAFETY & HOMELAND SECURITY) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB204 | Engross
Sine Die | This Bill updates the responsibilities of the Office of the Auditor of Accounts. The Bill provides that the work papers of an investigation or investigatory audit conducted by the Auditor of Accounts shall not be deemed public records. The Bill remov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB388 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill makes technical changes and amends the location of various provisions in the Dentistry and Dental Hygiene subchapter. The bill also makes substantive changes to the Dentistry and Dental Hygiene subchapter by enabling candidates for licensur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill will save the State of Delaware money by having school board elections on the date of the general election and it will increase the voter turnout for school board elections. Currently, school board elections are held on the second Tuesday o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (HOUSE ADMINISTRATION) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| SB214 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill requires that, beginning in the 2014-15 school year, Delaware public schools provide a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity weekly for all K-5 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB390 | Intro
Sine Die | The amendment extends the time for presenting claims against an estate when letters of testamentary or administration are granted. The letters are the first official publication of notice of death issued by the Register of Wills. Where there is an ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Introduced in House and assigned to Health & Human Development Committee |
| SB129 | Enroll
Sine Die | Coyotes are becoming more of a problem in Delaware as their population continues to increase. This Act would designate the coyote as wildlife which is not protected in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB262 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill provides that employees serving in security-related or high-risk positions may be eligible for hazardous duty pay. Those positions would be designated by the Chief Justice in accord with the needs of each court. Funding for this additional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-12
Stricken |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill removes expense payments and allocations from pension contribution compensation for elected officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB380 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill revises the Delaware Charter School law to require that all charter school applications be submitted to local school boards for review and consideration. The bill requires local school boards to conduct a face-to-face meeting with the chart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
Introduced in House and assigned to Education Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill codifies the common law and protects the secondary market for life insurance in Delaware. Courts in this state have consistently held that when an insurer rescinds a life insurance policy, the insurer must return the premiums that it has co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB116 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill allows a nonresident farm owner, who owns but is not an occupant of a farm in this State containing 20 acres or more and where the science of husbandry is practiced, and the immediate members of the family of the nonresident farm owner to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-06
Reported Out of Committee (NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB316 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a tax credit for furnishing broadband services to underserved and rural areas as defined by the Federal Internal Revenue Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-06
Stricken |
| SB189 | Engross
Sine Die | Section 1 and Section 2 eliminate the apprenticeship equivalency exam (bypass exam) from the licensure process for plumbing and HVACR applicants. This exam is an unnecessary step in the licensure process as these applicants must take the standardized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-06
Reported Out of Committee (SUNSET COMMITTEE (POLICY ANALYSIS & GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY)) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Under current law, the City of Wilmington has no representative on the Red Clay, Brandywine, Colonial, Christina and New Castle Vocational-Technical school boards expressly advocating for the City of Wilmington’s educational objectives. This Bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates comprehensive requirements for the conducting of benefits managers’ audits. In particular, this bill establishes requirements regarding timing of audits, notice, consistent audit processes, audit reports, overpayment and under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| HB259 | Pass | This Act clarifies the enforcement of Delaware’s driving under the influence statute as it relates to the operation of off-highway-vehicles. Title 21, 4177(c)(4), defines the term “vehicle” to include “any off-highway vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB180 | Pass | This Bill would create a new license type known as a “Craft Distillery” which would enable entities to obtain a license to distill spirits. Delaware law currently allows for Farm Wineries and Microbreweries to manufacture limited quantiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB367 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would allow hunting on private property on Sundays after noon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB368 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the Department of Education to provide, in schools that offer health services to children at a School-Based Health Center (SBHC), consent forms that clearly permit a parent or guardian to exclude any health service or services that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB230 | Pass | This bill empowers the State Election Commissioner, in conjunction with municipalities’ boards of election, to reschedule municipal elections in cases of emergencies. It specifies a new procedure to resolve complaints that conduct contrary to l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB159 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill changes the name of the Delaware Compensation Commission to the Delaware Salary Survey Commission. The salary recommendation report issued every four years is an advisory report which does not bind the Governor, the General Assembly, or the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds the requirement that veterinarian certify the duration of immunity of the rabies vaccine in addition to the date that revaccination is due according to the Compendium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Stricken |
| HB267 | Pass | This Act eliminates the 1935, $2,500 cap (33 Del. Laws, c. 72) on aggregate necessary travel expenses for all members of all three County governing bodies (raised to $5,000 for New Castle County Council only, in 71 Del. Laws, c. 401). The language pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB354 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows retired nurse volunteers to work under the direction of a licensed physician or dentist at Delaware medical clinics that provide free non-emergency medical care and limited dental services to low-income, uninsured adults ages 18 to 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes the Volunteer Emergency Responders Job Protection Act. The Act prohibits an employer from terminating or taking any other disciplinary action against an employee who is a volunteer emergency responder if such employee, when acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| SB176 | Enroll
Sine Die | The Bill redesignates the governing body of the Municipal Services Commission of the City of New Castle from “Board” to “Commission”, clarifies that the Commission can obtain private property within city limits for supplying a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
SS 1 for SB 176 - Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 39 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill waives the sovereign immunity defense as to the State and its political subdivisions, including school districts, for sexual abuse of a minor by an adult, provided, however, there must be a finding of gross negligence on the part of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB277 | Pass | This Act creates the criminal offense of home invasion as a new and separate crime in Delaware’s criminal code. Home invasion occurs when a person enters or remains unlawfully in someone else’s home, engages in or attempts to engage in ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB238 | Pass | This Bill simplifies the process for a military spouse applying for reinstatement of a professional license or permit with the Division of Professional Regulation within 2 years of the license or permit lapsing. It does not apply to a revoked or susp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB223 | Pass | This Act allows the use of electronic notices and documents in lieu of current requirements for the sending of insurance notices and documents. In order to send electronic notices and documents to another party the insurer must obtain the consent of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB170 | Pass | This Act allows qualified individuals who are covered by Small Employer plans to continue their coverage at their own cost, for up to nine (9) months after termination of coverage. The provisions of this Act shall have no force or effect if the Healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB256 | Pass | This bill ensures that when a person fails to report a missing child and that child becomes a neglected child as a result of the failure to report, that person can be charged with the crime of endangering the welfare of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB193 | Pass | This Act creates a special license plate for members of the Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-21
Signed by Governor |
