| SB221 | Enroll
Sine Die | This amendment adds the United States Bankruptcy Courts to the list of entities that may certify questions of law to the Delaware Supreme Court. This is the first leg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-05
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB402 | Enroll
Sine Die | Some species of non-native wildlife including invasive species, can pose current and future risks to native wildlife species or their habitats, agriculture, property, or human health or safety. This bill authorizes the Department of Natural Resources...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-01
HS 1 for HB 402 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB225 | Enroll
Sine Die | Head injuries are the most common cause of death for people who ride horses or ponies according to the American Medical Equestrian Association. This bill requires persons less than 18 years of age to wear a certified riding helmet. The law is written...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-30
Defeated by House of Representatives. Votes: Defeated 24 YES 16 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SCR43 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution establishes a “Task Force on Labor History” to develop materials to be included in the state’s American history curriculum ensuring that Delaware public school students will be instructed at an appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-30
Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 30 YES 11 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB278 | Enroll
Sine Die | Section 1 creates the Controlled Substance Advisory Committee, a designee/recommending body that previously existed only in regulation; makes numerous grammatical corrections; makes uniform the language pertaining to the Secretary’s duty to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB371 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act ensures that the investigation and disposition of cases of child abuse or neglect are conducted in a comprehensive, integrated and multi-disciplinary manner, thereby significantly reducing existing communication and coordination gaps in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
HS 1 for HB 371 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB9 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment which eliminates the existing five-year waiting period before eligible felons who have fully discharged their sentences may have their voting rights restored. This Act shall be known as the Haze...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-28
Enact w/o Sign 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB183 | Enroll
Sine Die | The purpose of this Bill is to remove the epilogue language from the Budget Bill and add this language to Title 14, establishing the Prison Education Unit. It establishes a minimum of ten teacher FTEs as Career and Technical Education Teachers for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-20
SS 1 for SB 183 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB227 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill requires that bids for all newly constructed dwelling units using public financial assistance shall indicate the extent of the universal design standards in the proposal. Public financial assistance includes a contract with a state agency, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-20
HS 1 for HB 227 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 15 YES 4 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB205 | Enroll
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 Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers for the preceding year, the owner must seek app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-19
Defeated by House of Representatives. Votes: Defeated 14 YES 22 NO 5 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SCR21 | Enroll
Sine Die | This resolution creates a Blue Ribbon Task Force to review the feasibility of opening Family Court proceedings to the public. The report is due by February 15, 2012 with a copy delivered to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 8 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB161 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act establishes the crime of home invasion as a class A felony. The Act is premised on the belief that every person's home is their castle. No one should be permitted to enter someone else's home with a deadly weapon, or with another person with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB151 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Bill requires that the Director of Lotteries be notified by the Division of Child Support Enforcement that a person is delinquent in support payments. The Bill would require that that person’s prize winnings be sent to the Division to be a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-15
SS 1 for SB 151 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 1 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB187 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Bill amends 21 Del. C. 313 and 4203 as they pertain to information contained in accident reports which allow for the public inspection of information in those reports when (1) it is for purpose of researching the history of vehicles; (2) the inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-10
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB253 | Enroll
Sine Die | Our legal system has long required that defendants be competent to stand trial. Furthermore, our legal system is increasingly placing children in much the same role as adults when it comes to trying and sentencing those children. This Act establishes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-09
HS 1 for HB 253 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB263 | Enroll
Sine Die | This act creates a special license plate for veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-26
HS 1 for HB 263 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB135 | Enroll
Sine Die | School Based Health Centers exist in 28 Delaware high schools and provide convenient, confidential, and effective health services to students. Parents must consent each year to their child’s use of the SBHC. The federal government is requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-18
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| SB18 | Enroll
Sine Die | This is the second leg of a Constitutional Amendment that will increase the annual amount of compensation an officer must receive, from such position, before Senate confirmation is required. This Bill will increase the current amount of five hundred ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-06-30
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB15 | Enroll
Sine Die | As of July 1, 2012, 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] | 2011-06-15
To House Administration Committee |
| SB50 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Bill will ensure that the redistricting process becomes entirely open. While the Freedom of Information Act has an exception for matters discussed within caucuses of the General Assembly, it is best that this process be entirely open. Accordingl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-13
To House Administration Committee |
