| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill prohibits a former member of the General Assembly from acting as a lobbyist for a period of two years after such person leaves office. Any person who knowingly violates this section shall be guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-18
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB20 | Intro
Sine Die | This is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would eliminate from the Delaware Constitution the requirements as to when a person may vote by absentee ballot. This amendment to the Delaware Constitution provides that the General Assembly s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-16
Defeated by House of Representatives. Votes: Defeated 27 YES 14 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB74 | Intro
Sine Die | This Delaware Health Security Act will provide a cost effective single payer health care system for the State of Delaware. The Act will provide comprehensive health care coverage to all Delawareans without any extra health insurance or out-of-pocket-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-16
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB71 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes it unlawful for a minor to possess or use a tobacco product.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB37 | Intro
Sine Die | This act would add a new section 1462 to Title 11 of the Delaware Code and set in place a prospective prohibition against the manufacture, production, delivery, sale, or purchase of assault weapons. Persons who legally possess assault weapons at the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Stricken |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill requires that changes to the Delaware Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allowance auction program involving reduction in allowances below 6,803,808 short tons of CO2, increases in the reserve price for permits, or changes to price caps for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Energy & Transit Committee |
| HB16 | Pass | This Bill is intended to facilitate the hosting of temporary large events in the State of Delaware, such as music festivals, car shows, auctions or conventions, by exempting such events from a provision in the Code that prohibits the holder of a lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB19 | Enroll
Sine Die | This act eliminates capital punishment and provides that those sentenced to death will serve life in prison without parole or other reduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB11 | Pass | This Bill permits employees that are trained by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to obtain biological samples. By eliminating the “medical” reference in the existing language, this legislation will allow for a broader pool of indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB50 | Pass | This Act establishes a tax rate of 6.6% on taxable income in excess of $60,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB51 | Pass | This Act eliminates the sunset of the estate tax scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB9 | Pass | This legislation represents the work of the HJR 17 Study Group created to review Delaware’s civil mental health laws. HJR17 required a report and recommendation on immunity provisions of 16 Del. C. 5122(j) and 5004(f) by January 1, 2013. This i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB52 | Pass | This bill removes the sunset provision in 77 Del. Laws, c. 78 relating to the corporation franchise tax. The bill keeps in place the following current corporation franchise tax rates: the maximum franchise tax of $180,000, the assumed par value multi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB53 | Pass | This Act establishes for all gross receipts business categories other than manufacturers tax rates in 2014 that are one percent below the rates in effect in 2013. This Act reduces by 30% manufacturers’ tax rates in 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB45 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill prohibits certain ticket scalping for events held at locations within the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
Stricken |
| SB2 | Pass | This bill adds Friends of the Capitol Theater, Inc., which operates the Schwartz Center for the Arts, as an exempt non-profit organization from the county or other political subdivision property tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that forever guarantees the right of farmers to engage in modern farming and ranching practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (AGRICULTURE) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| SB5 | 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] | 2013-03-26
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB62 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows the City of Wilmington to enact laws, ordinances and regulations relating to firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
To House Administration Committee |
| HB59 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill amends Title 21 of the Delaware Code to allow for the public inspection of information in accident reports when (1) it is for purpose of researching the history of vehicles; (2) the information sought from the accident report does not discl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-21
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill addresses the regulation of any potential location of a liquefied natural gas terminal in the State of Delaware. Such a facility is treated under this legislation the same way as incinerators. That is, any such facility would require a perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-19
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | This is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to ensure that judicial appointees who are constitutionally required to be a member of a political party, to have been a member of that political party for at least the last 2 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-15
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB19 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill modifies the Prothonotary’s fee for filing a certification registering a trade name to make it consistent with the fee as set forth in Superior Court Civil Rule 77(h)F which is currently $25.00. The fee of $5.00 was set in 1980. In ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-14
Stricken |
| SB7 | Intro
Sine Die | This act would make the office of the Wilmington City Auditor an elective office commencing with the 2014 election. Presently, the City Auditor is appointed by the Mayor of Wilmington and confirmed by City Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (COMMUNITY/COUNTY AFFAIRS) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB34 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes the Delaware School Safety and Security Fund to allow eligible public schools to compete for grant awards to partially or fully fund projects intended to improve school safety or security. The Department of Education shall admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Education Committee |
| SB3 | Pass | This act would require the Diamond State Port Corporation to obtain the approval of a majority of both Houses of the General Assembly and the Governor, through the passage of legislation, before entering into any agreement or transaction whereby the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB2 | Pass | This bill creates additional incentives for holders of abandoned property to report such property to the state and promptly resolve such claims. The bill expands the new voluntary self-disclosure program administered by the Secretary of State and ena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB1 | Pass | This Act amends the bank franchise tax in Title 5. Sections 1 and 2 of this Act delete obsolete provisions in Sections 1101 and 1104 of Title 5 for the resulting branch imputed capital addback for a banking organization that is a resulting branch in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB1 | Pass | This Act puts in place a temporary 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] | 2013-01-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Begin Synopsis Here
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-24
To Senate Bond Committee |
| HB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Begin Synopsis Here
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-24
Introduced in House and assigned to Appropriations Committee |
| HB14 | 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] | 2013-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB8 | 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] | 2013-01-23
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB3 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill prohibits certain ticket scalping for musical concert events at the Delaware State Fair.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-16
Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| HB7 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows contracting agencies to opt out of the requirement that prevailing wages be paid to mechanics and laborers performing work on public works projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-15
To House Administration Committee |
| HB6 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill raises the dollar thresholds for public works projects subject to the prevailing wage requirement to $350,000 for new construction and $100,000 for alteration, repair, renovation, rehabilitation, demolition or reconstruction. Neither of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-15
To House Administration Committee |
| HB5 | Intro
Sine Die | The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control by regulation has adopted the California Low Emission Vehicle Program effective for all new model year 2014 and subsequent motor vehicles. This bill requires the General Assembly to approv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-15
To House Natural Resources Committee |
