| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Currently giving, selling, lending, or otherwise furnishing a firearm to a convicted felon, mentally ill person or other prohibited person knowing that the person is prohibited, is a class F felony. This Bill makes it a class A misdemeanor for someon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-11
Stricken |
| HB32 | Pass | This legislation updates and streamlines the State’s Oil Pollution Act by eliminating a monetary cap for liability for damages, and requires that a Certificate of Financial Responsibility (COFR) be issued by the U.S. Coast Guard, pursuant to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB55 | Pass | This Bill clarifies that parties to a franchise agreement are not within the definition of "employee" under the Wage Payment and Collection Act of the State. Franchising is well-regulated at the federal and state level to ensure that both t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill modernizes the language of the statute to conform to the current practice of the Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-06
Stricken |
| HR10 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Resolution creates a Task Force to study Delaware’s laws, regulations and school district policies relating to truancy, arrests, school suspensions and expulsions, and alternative placements. The Task Force shall prepare a report of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-06
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB45 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act required pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers and scrap metal processors to photograph all jewelry which they purchase or otherwise acquire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-06
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB103 | Engross
Sine Die | Section 1 of this Bill replaces the position of Treasurer with that of Vice–President on the Board of Landscape Architecture. This change brings the Board of Landscape Architecture in line with other boards covered under Title 24 of the Delawar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-05
Reported Out of Committee (SUNSET) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB173 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill refines the regulation of residential door-to-door solicitations. Specifically, Section one expands the definition of “door-to-door sale” by including the placement of business cards, advertisements, or leaflets at homes. Sectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-05
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| HCR24 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution commends the Food Bank of Delaware for its contributions to ending hunger and resolving the root causes of poverty in the State of Delaware through its increased statewide impact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-05
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | This Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act (also to be known as Grace Firestone’s Law) provides for dissemination of educational materials about, and mandating standards for, protecting those exhibiting signs of possible sudden cardiac arrest. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-05
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes a 2 year pilot program which authorizes the City of Dover and the City of Wilmington police agencies to initiate camera and video enforcement of speed limits within mile of any work zone and/or school. Similar to the red light c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-05
To Senate Public Safety Committee |
| HB39 | Pass | This Act will make changes to Delaware’s bail statutes that will reduce the crimes committed by dangerous and violent offenders who have been released on bail only to commit additional crimes. The Act will require any court setting bail to requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| SB9 | Pass | This Act modifies Delaware's juvenile sentencing laws to bring those laws into compliance with decisions the United States Supreme Court issued in 2010 and 2012. During its last term, the United States Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-04
Signed by Governor |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds name, birth date and address to the definition of personal information. The bill also defines a “digital data breach” and describes specific damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | With the advent of electronic medical records, social networks, and increased smart phone usage, private and intimate details about people’s lives have now become digital. Information stored digitally can be improperly disclosed and/or accessed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB90 | Pass | This bill updates the school choice program, which has not received substantive attention since 1998. This bill aims to make it easier for parents to navigate the choice process by standardizing application forms and deadlines across traditional and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-06-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB120 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires auctioneer and auction firm licensing and creates a commission to license auctioneers and auction firms and to oversee their activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-30
HS 1 for HB 120 - Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce |
| SB4 | Pass | This Amendment to the Charter of Bridgeville updates voter eligibility and candidate eligibility. All other election matters will be governed by State municipal election Laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB17 | Pass | This bill establishes the pilotage rates for the Pilots’ Association for the Bay and River Delaware for 2014, 2015, and 2016. All rates have been agreed upon by the Pilots’ Association and key port industry representatives. The new pilota...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB40 | Pass | This bill extends the Automatic Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program and the Office of Foreclosure Prevention for four additional years beyond the current sunset date in January 2014. The bill also makes technical changes to the adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB42 | Pass | This bill adds adult aunts and uncles to the list of relatives who may act as a surrogate to make health care decisions for an adult patient if the patient lacks capacity and there is no agent or guardian, no prior designated surrogate, the prior des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB24 | Pass | This Bill implements recommendations from the Truancy Task Force by changing provisions of the Delaware Code regarding compulsory attendance and when a truancy case must be brought to the Truancy Court. Specifically, school attendance requirements sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB47 | Pass | This bill offers more flexibility to the Medical Advisory Board (MAB) by enabling the Chair of the Board to nominate new members in addition to the President of the Medical Council of Delaware and reorganizes existing language by moving subsection(e)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB18 | Pass | This bill brings the designation of judges who act as the boards of canvass into compliance with 6 of Article V of the Delaware State Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB24 | Pass | This bill will allow the Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states and agencies for the purpose of toll interoperability as well as toll violation collections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB86 | Pass | This Act extends Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s ability to reach agreements for operating services in its areas from a 10-year length to a maximum length of 25 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB10 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the second 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 Haz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-28
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HCR17 | Enroll
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution proclaims the week of September 14 through September 22, 2013, to be “Sea-Level Rise Awareness Week.”
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB57 | Pass | In 2010, based on recommendations made by the Juvenile Justice Collaborative, Section 1007 of Title 10 was amended to expand the list of possible acts for which a child could be detained in a secure facility and provide significant safeguards against...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| SCR18 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution continues to raise awareness that the month of May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SCR15 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution proclaims May, 2013, Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HCR25 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the month of May as “Poppy Month” in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SR8 | Intro
Sine Die | The Resolution urges the United States Congress to support efforts to reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions in effect under the Glass-Steagall Act and supporting H.R. No. 129.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
To Senate Banking Committee |
| SCR21 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution declares June 2013 as Delaware Dairy Month and Honors Delaware’s farm creameries and dairy farmers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB136 | Intro
Sine Die | The law does not currently adequately address the situations that arise when the sole tenant of a residential rental unit dies. This bill allows the landlord to file and maintain an action for summary possession as necessary. In addition, this bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Stricken |
| SCR19 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution proclaims May 2013 as “Mammography Month” in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB31 | Pass | . This Act permits off-premises consumption licensees who obtain a Growler Filler permit to purchase kegs or partial kegs from wholesalers and fill and cap containers for the customer to consume off of the premises where sold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB41 | Pass | This bill forbids the possession, sale, offer for sale, and distribution of shark fins in the State of Delaware. Shark finning (whereby a shark is caught, its fins cut off and the carcass dumped back in the water while the shark is still alive) is al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-15
Signed by Governor |
| HCR23 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution proclaims May 2013 as “Foster Care Appreciation Month”.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-15
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act restricts to Delaware resident borrowers certain short term loan limitations and information gathering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-14
To Senate Banking Committee |
| HB26 | Pass | This act amends the Charter of the Town of Laurel, Section 2, by updating it to include all properties that have been annexed into the Town of Laurel, including all land annexed in the future by the Town of Laurel pursuant to Section 3 of the Town of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB118 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would permit alcoholic beverage license holders to hold up to 3 retail licenses from the current 2 that was established as of April 1992.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-14
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HCR21 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution commends Delaware’s public charter schools for their efforts in educating Delaware students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-14
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB85 | 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] | 2013-05-14
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB138 | Intro
Sine Die | This youth tobacco prevention bill eliminates the taxing disparity between moist snuff and “other tobacco products,” not including cigarettes. It also raises the tax rate from 15% to 30% of the wholesale price, and designates tax revenue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-14
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HCR22 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution commends the nominees and recipients for the 2013 Delaware Award for Excellence and Commitment in State Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-14
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | The General Assembly, over the years, has delegated authority to State agencies to adopt and amend rules and regulations which have the force of law and which subject those regulated to civil and criminal penalties and other sanctions. To assure that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-09
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| HR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Respecting And Honoring All Delaware Mothers On May 12, 2013, Mother's Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-09
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HCR20 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution thanks the Career and Technical Student Organizations for their presentation of geraniums. This concurrent resolution also extends best wishes for continued success to the respective students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-09
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB135 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act seeks to create jobs and new sources of revenue for the State of Delaware by, among other means, authorizing the addition of two new video lottery agents, one in Sussex County and one in New Castle County, through an application process cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-09
Introduced in House and assigned to Gaming & Parimutuels Committee |
