| SB207 | Pass | In 1999, House Bill 332 established new response time goals and certification standards for the delivery of basic life support and emergency medical services. In order to meet the new standards, volunteer ambulance companies needed to hire paid EMTs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB227 | Pass | This legislation transfers ownership of the Milford Armory to the City of Milford. The legislation states that the property is turned over to the City of Milford in an “as is” condition. Any future transfer or non-public use of the proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB199 | Pass | This bill amends the definition of extremely hazardous substance in 7 Del. C., Chapter 77, the Extremely Hazardous Substances Risk Management Act to be consistent with the wording in the federal Clean Air Act Amendments and the federal Risk Managemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB212 | Pass | This bill addresses pregnancy accommodations and clarifies that the current prohibitions against sex discrimination in employment includes pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB258 | Pass | This legislation declassifies a number of minor violations associated with wildlife, hunting, fishing and boating by changing them from Class C and Class D environmental misdemeanors to environmental violations. These environmental violations will no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB202 | Pass | This bill amends Title 18, Chapter 58 Risk-Based Capital (RBC) For Insurers by designating the current chapter as Sub-Chapter I and by adding Sub-Chapter II, which shall be known as Risk-Based Capital (RBC) for Health Organizations. The bill’s ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB203 | Pass | This bill’s language comes directly from an NAIC Model Law for consistency across the United States and creates a new Chapter 84 under Title 18. To further enhance insurance policyholder protections, this bill will require an insurer to maintai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB75 | Pass | This Act will increase the effectiveness of the Parks Endowment Fund at assisting with the financing of physical maintenance and capital improvements at Delaware State Parks. This Act will also help encourage private investments and donations for our...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB205 | Pass | This bill outlines procedures for dealing with Sudden Cardiac Arrest in student athletes. This legislation will be known as the Grace Firestone Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB180 | Pass | This bill adds Delaware Route 4 to the list of state highways requiring certain signage for speed enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB231 | Pass | This Act serves to codify numerous policies that promote the autonomy of the Alderman’s Court and thereby foster public confidence in the Court. The Act describes the processes of nomination, appointment by the Governor and confirmation by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB238 | Pass | This legislation will require manufactured home community owners to provide prospective tenants with a copy of the proposed rental agreement, a copy of the rules, standards and fee schedule of the manufactured home community, a copy of the Manufactur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill enhances employment opportunities for Delaware’s work force by establishing a trust fund. This fund, the Delaware Works Trust Fund (“DWTF”), shall be used to support un-funded capital projects in Delaware that improve Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-08
Stricken |
| SB150 | Pass | This bill is intended to implement the recommendations of the General Assembly’s Joint Sunset Committee following its review of the Sustainable Energy Utility. The Committee recommended that the statute governing the SEU, Title 29, Section 8059...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB157 | Pass | The bill adds sales and leases to the current language regarding publicly funded capital improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB192 | Pass | This Bill respectfully responds and reacts to the well-reasoned decision in the matter State of Delaware Insurance Coverage Office v. Rabrinda Choudry and Debjani Choudry, C.A. No. N12A-08-003 RRC and codifies the longstanding position of the State o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB123 | Pass | Currently, most first responders are afforded Line-of-Duty Death Benefits in the event of a tragedy while they are serving in the course of their assigned duties. However, Constables, except for Justice of the Peace Constables, are not eligible for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB214 | Pass | This bill clarifies that an applicant must have a baccalaureate degree to be eligible to have a doctorate pursuant to 2818(c) of Title 24 requirements of licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB185 | Pass | Delaware employment discrimination law applies to employers of 4 or more employees within the State for all protected classes (race; marital status; genetic information; color; age; religion; sex; sexual orientation; gender identity; national origin)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB245 | Pass | This bill protects animals seized in criminal activity, cruelty and animal fighting from automatic humane disposition including breeding females and puppies. Delaware is one of only thirteen states who treat animals seized in this manner. This bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB260 | Pass | This Act would allow the Court of Common Pleas to provide incentives for participation in a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Treatment Program. It is anticipated that this program, which will last a minimum of 9 months, will address offenders who ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB256 | Pass | This bill re-constitutes the Council on Correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB201 | Pass | This bill clarifies the roles and authority of the Delaware Division of Public Health Office of Animal Welfare and Delaware Department of Agriculture. The Office of Animal Welfare was established to consolidate and coordinate companion animal program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SJR4 | Pass | This Joint Resolution directs the Secretary of Finance to make recommendations to the General Assembly on the steps necessary to make business licensing requirements and fees to be administered through a single portal as recommended by the “Blu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SJR8 | Pass | This joint resolution directs the implementation of a cross-agency review of regulatory and licensing practices, as recommended by the “Blue Collar” Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SJR7 | Pass | This joint resolution directs DEDO and DNREC to take the lead to work with private sector providers to develop a plan for implementation of such a pipeline extension, as recommended by the “Blue Collar” Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB127 | Pass | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee and makes several amendments to Title 11 relating to the Board of Parole. This bill adds victim advocacy to be included as one of the potential qualifications to be conside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB174 | Pass | This Bill recognizes tobacco and nicotine products as contraband in correctional facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB94 | Pass | This Bill adds to current tanning bed restrictions by banning all minors from using tanning devices in tanning facilities. It also mandates warning signs and statements in tanning facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB257 | Pass | In 2012, the General Assembly passed Senate Bill No. 227 which established the "Quality Assurance Fund". Fees collected under this legislation are placed into the Fund and are in turn matched by federal Medicaid dollars resulting in increas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB206 | Pass | Servicemembers have been afforded civil relief at the federal level under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 501 et seq. (the “SCRA”), or one of its predecessor statutes, since the Civil War. Similar to the purpose of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB221 | Pass | This Act allows political committees to give campaign contributions back to their donors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB36 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that will modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly and the Courts to define certain felony offenses for which and circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-23
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| SB186 | Pass | This bill requires entities contribute more than $100 to a political committees during an election cycle to disclose the name and address of a “responsible party”—that is, someone who shares or exercises direction or control over th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB187 | Pass | This bill provides a safe alternative for the return of prohibited campaign and suspected prohibited campaign contributions. This bill allows a reporting party to donate a prohibited or suspected prohibited contribution to a charitable organization l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| SJR10 | Pass | This resolution establishes the Lyme Disease Prevention Task Force to promulgate a unified strategy to combat Lyme Disease in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB246 | Pass | This Act would bring best practices to Delaware schools with respect to prevention of serious injury or death from anaphylactic reactions caused by an allergy or life-threatening crisis due to asthma. Delaware schools shall have Emergency Medications...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB261 | Pass | This Bill grants pension increases to retired State Employees, retired Judges, retired “New” State police and retired County/Municipal Police/Firefighters on January 1, 2015 for persons whose pension benefit was effective on or before Jun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB243 | Pass | This bill specifies that probation and parole officers are included in the definition of “law-enforcement officer” for the purposes of the Delaware Criminal Code in Title 11 of the Delaware Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB229 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act would permit the state’s most severely cognitively disabled students, with the consent of their parents, IEP teams, and school districts, to receive special exemptions from taking either of the state’s standardized as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB230 | Pass | This bill expands the Child Protection Accountability Commission from 20 to 24 members. In so doing, it expands representation to include the Superintendent of the Delaware State Police; the Chair of the Child Death, Near Death and Stillbirth Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB220 | Pass | This Bill implements the recommendations of the Lottery & Gaming Study Commission created by the 147th General Assembly. Effective July 1, 2014, certain video lottery equipment costs will be deducted prior to calculation of the State’s shar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB169 | Pass | This legislation authorizes and requires the Justice of the Peace Court to conduct drug testing of its uniformed services employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB218 | Pass | This bill amends the definition of good cause to include reported and recorded acts of Bullying as previously defined in Delaware Code. This definition change would allow bullying along with the other factors currently listed under “good cause&...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB224 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Laurel to permit issuance of general obligation bonds, certificates of indebtedness, notes, or other obligations by the Town of Laurel, without a public hearing and special election, up to the aggregate amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB234 | Pass | This bill aligns language within Title 14, Chapter 5 with changes to education and charter policy made throughout the chapter as well as elsewhere in the title. These changes remedy inconsistencies in language between different sections of Delaware C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB182 | Pass | This bill creates a check box for donations to the Protecting Delaware’s Children Fund on the individual income tax return. All amounts designated to this Fund would be forwarded to the Delaware Community Foundation for use in public awareness ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB211 | Pass | This Act establishes a 30-day late renewal period for certified nursing assistants during which they may still work. Certifications renewed during the 30-day late renewal period will be charged a fee for late renewal rather than having to retake the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB181 | Pass | This bill makes several changes to the Child Protection Registry. First, it provides the requirement for a hearing for every child prior to placement on the registry and requires the appointment of counsel. The bill reorganizes the Court findings req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB253 | Pass | This legislation authorizes the conveyance of the Airport Road Division of Motor Vehicles facility over to the Colonial School District. The legislation also directs the Colonial School District to subdivide, and convey a portion of the parcel to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-15
Signed by Governor |
