| HB185 | Pass | The City of Delaware City (“City”) appointed a charter committee to review and suggest updates to the City’s charter. The charter committee met on several occasions to discuss the charter and submitted recommendations to the City...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB71 | Pass | This act would eliminate the requirement for an election when the property owner has requested annexation of their property, while retaining the election requirement in cases where the entirety of the area proposed for annexation is not the subject o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB72 | Pass | This Bill expands the purpose of the Special Law Enforcement Assistance Fund so that law-enforcement agencies can obtain and devote resources to enhance the suppression, investigation and prosecution of criminal activity, promote officer safety, faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB162 | Pass | This bill is designed to bring the health insurance provisions of the Delaware Insurance Code in compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”). Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 14 (in part) of this bill amend the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB76 | Pass | Section 1 requires election polls to be open for no less than 7 hours (but not during any specific time period). Section 2 allows notices of special meetings to be emailed or hand-delivered to Council members. Section 3 clarifies that the Town Solici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB42 | Pass | This bill ensures that individuals who are eligible for the Federal Medicare program due to disability are able to purchase the same Medicare supplement policies available to individuals eligible for Medicare due to age. This bill also ensures that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB69 | Pass | This act would remove redundant language and improve readability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB92 | Pass | This bill reduces the fee for an initial security freeze from twenty dollars to ten dollars, and from twenty dollars to five dollars for senior citizens. This bill also adds agencies and organizations exempted from placing a security freeze.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB117 | Pass | The Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact (IWVC) is a nationwide law enforcement network aimed at preventing lawbreakers who have lost their hunting, fishing, and/or trapping privileges in one state due to egregious crimes, such as poaching against wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB43 | Pass | The Social Security Act was recently amended to require a state directory of new hires to include employees who were previously employed by the employer but have been separated from such employment for at least 60 consecutive days. This bill conforms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB44 | Pass | This bill is a housekeeping bill designed to, with respect to the amendment to Section 705 of Title 18, conform the lines of authority referenced therein to the form to be provided by each insurance company as furnished by the Insurance Commissioner ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB104 | Pass | This bill is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee and adds the Public Advocate to the definition of “public officer” which would subject them, like many other individuals in positions of public trust, to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB109 | Pass | This bill would remove social security numbers from the child support orders and would instead require Family Court to collect the social security numbers of each party at the time the petition is filed and maintain that information in Family Court r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HJR13 | Pass | This joint resolution is designed to continue the work of the Gifted and Talented Task Force regarding further study of gifted and talented programs. The resolution directs the Department of Education to collaborate with stakeholders to promulgate re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SCR31 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution requests that natural gas be monitored for radioactive constituents and reported to the Department of Health and Social Services. This Resolution also requests that a coalition be established to determine a maximum safety threshold fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-09
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB210 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill sets out a process by which a person may bring a complaint before the Commissioner of Elections if that person believes a candidate is running in violation of the residency requirements for a particular office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-09
To Senate Administrative Services/Elections Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the security business, not the user, to register the system. The bill shall become effective 90 days after enactment to allow the businesses to register systems that are already installed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-09
To Senate Small Business Committee |
| SB146 | Pass | This bill allows the Superintendent of the Delaware State Police to authorize a police cadet to issue a summons for a violation of the Motor Vehicle statute that prohibits stopping, standing or parking on a roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB41 | Pass | This bill requires risk retention groups (RRGs) to comply with the property and casualty actuarial opinion law and is necessary for maintaining Delaware’s National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) accreditation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB84 | Pass | The Neighborhood Assistance Tax Credit program has brought about significant investment in neighborhood organizations, benefitting low and moderate income individuals living in impoverished areas and catalyzing partnerships among community-based deve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | The Bethel Town Council has extensively reviewed and proposed comprehensive revisions to its charter. This bill is the result of those efforts including public hearings and a resolution to send the proposed charter revisions to the Delaware General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB172 | Pass | This bill ensures that new applicants for a journeyperson electrician license must have performed 8000 hours of electrical work and passed the journeyperson exam before such person can obtain a journeyperson electrician license. The bill also require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB119 | Pass | This bill addresses the prescription drug abuse epidemic in Delaware by promoting safe disposal of prescription drugs by hospice programs and their clients. This bill will require the Department of Health and Social Services to establish and implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB40 | Pass | This Act will increase the penalties imposed upon repeat offenders convicted of the crime of Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony by adding that crime to the list of serious violent felonies that can serve as predicate offenses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB99 | Pass | This bill increases the rate changes or deviations fee and the filing fee for form, advertising and/or rule filings for each insurance policy or annuity contract or application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB131 | Pass | This Act establishes that gestational carrier arrangements are legal contracts. It establishes a set of consistent standards and procedural safeguards applicable to all agreements for the protection of all parties involved in a gestational carrier ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB61 | Pass | The purpose of this amendment is to allow innocent victims of motor vehicle collisions to access their own underinsured insurance benefits in circumstances where the victim’s damages are greater than the amount of the negligent driver’s i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB44 | Pass | This bill permits a real property owner or tenant to display an American flag on a pole attached to the exterior of the property’s structure or on a flagpole located within the property’s boundaries, provided the flagpole does not exceed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB116 | Pass | No person who suffers an alcohol or drug overdose or other life threatening condition should die because of fear of criminal charges. It is within Delaware’s best interests to encourage reporting dangerous situations where they occur as not onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-02
Signed by Governor |
| SCR33 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes August 31st as Overdose Awareness Day in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SCR34 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution creates a “Green and Better Building Advisory Committee.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB143 | Pass | This Act makes permanent Delaware’s research and development tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB91 | Pass | This Bill brings Delaware’s unemployment insurance law into compliance with federal law, Public Law 112-40, which requires that an employer’s unemployment insurance tax account cannot be relieved of charges for an unemployment insurance c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SCR32 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution celebrates the life and ministry of the Reverend Father Roberto Balducelli, pastor emeritus of Wilmington’s St. Anthony of Padua Church, as he prepares to observe his 100th Birthday on August 11, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB179 | Engross
Sine Die | The Bill will reduce average customer energy bills and will create local jobs by driving investments in energy efficiency that displace more expensive energy supply purchases. Energy efficiency investments create in-state jobs, lower energy bills for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Amendment SA 2 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate |
| SB38 | Enroll
Sine Die | Section 1 clarifies that a licensed appraiser cannot appraise a property in Delaware with a market value in excess of one million dollars. Only a certified residential or general certified appraiser may appraise properties with this market value. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
SS 1 for SB 38 - Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 41 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB120 | Pass | This bill allows the Secretaries of the Department of Finance and the Department of Health and Social Services, in consultation with one another, to establish the exact rates to be charged, subject to maximum rates set forth in the bill. The bill fur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB215 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 20132014. Section 1 – Government Units and Senior Center $21,632,943 $21,598,445 Section 2 – One-Times and Community Agencies $16,215,516 $16,733,672 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SCR9 | Engross
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, 2014 with a copy delivered to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB103 | Pass | The federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) requires that certain activities related to career and technical education be carried out by the State’s “eligible agency”; however, under current D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Pennsylvania is expected to pass legislation privatizing liquor stores. This could have a significant financial impact on liquor stores in Delaware. This resolution asks the Secretary of Finance to provide a report assessing how the privatization of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Introduced in House |
| SB112 | Pass | This Act puts in place a permanent solution to allow for a fraternal or veterans organization with national affiliation or an organization whose membership consists primarily of veterans honorably discharged or active duty service member to operate c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB200 | Pass | An Act Making Appropriations For The Expense Of The State Government For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2014; Specifying Certain Procedures, Conditions And Limitations For The Expenditure Of Such Funds; And Amending Certain Pertinent Statutory Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HJR12 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB145 | Pass | A Bond And Capital Improvements Act Of The State Of Delaware And Certain Of Its Authorities For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2014; Authorizing The Issuance Of General Obligation Bonds Of The State; Appropriating Funds From The Transportation Trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HJR11 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HR22 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Resolution creates a Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding pedestrian safety along the Route 1 Corridor from the Nassau Bridge to the Southern Town Limits of Dewey Beach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB124 | 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] | 2013-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB149 | Pass | Currently, some health insurers refuse to pay Delaware Volunteer Fire Companies and other emergency medical service ("EMS") providers directly for ambulance service and related supplies unless the Fire Company (or other EMS provider) has ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB217 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill excludes from income taxes pensions received from the United States, including military retirement income, up to a maximum of $22,500 in 2014, $30,000.00 in 2015, and $37,500.00 thereafter, less any Social Security benefits paid by the Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-30
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
