| HB315 | 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 |
| HB317 | 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 |
| HB372 | Pass | This Bill expands line of duty death benefits to include individuals who die from a heart attack, stroke, or vascular rupture within 24 hours of on duty strenuous physical activity. This Bill further removes the statute of limitations on submitting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB374 | Pass | This bill extends the Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit Program annual fees for facilities in Delaware. This bill was developed through the Title V Operating Permit Program Advisory Committee. Existing statutory authorization sunsets December 31...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB354 | Pass | At the recommendation of the Joint Sunset Committee, this bill amends the Diamond State Port Corporation by adding an advisory board, consisting of members who represent a variety of interests related to the Port, to provide the Port’s Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HJR15 | Pass | This resolution recognizes July 4th, 2014as the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig retiring from baseball and highlights awareness of Lou Gehrig’s disease in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB379 | Pass | This bill modernizes the regulatory structure in Delaware for travel insurance to be in line with other states and the way that travel insurance is currently developed, marketed, and sold in the US. This will lead to more uniformity, which benefits p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB13 | Pass | This bill prohibits a former member of the General Assembly from acting as a lobbyist for a period of one year after such person’s term of office ends. Any person who knowingly violates this section shall be guilty of an unclassified misdemeano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB340 | Pass | These amendments to the Omnibus School Safety Act changes the date that schools are to be in compliance with the Act to September 2014 instead of September 2017. In addition, the amendment changes the requirement of school districts to conduct full s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB294 | Pass | This legislation requires an employer to shred or destroy employee records with personal identifying information when the employer no longer retains the records. An employee harmed by the employer’s failure to comply with this section can sue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB360 | Pass | This bill promotes the safety and welfare of our State’s growing number of patients who use dialysis centers. The bill enables and requires the Department of Health and Social Services to create standards for those centers. A direct concern exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB339 | Pass | This bill amends the Delaware Code concerning barber licensing by permitting the merger of classroom instruction and an apprenticeship to attain licensure. Specifically, a combined 600 classroom instructional hours and 1500 apprenticeship hours will ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB247 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate identifying members of the Cancer Support Community. The special plates will be available upon 100 applicants submitting applications and continued membership must be shown by members to maintain possession o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB408 | Pass | This Bill (Section 1) clarifies the authority of the Victims Compensation Assistance Program (“VCAP”) to recover from the offender and collateral sources the full amount of compensation paid to the victim(s) of crimes committed by the off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB342 | Pass | This bill allows public water utilities and wastewater utilities to perform electrical work to maintain their plant and services in the same manner that other utilities are now permitted under current law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB260 | Pass | This bill adds to the existing crime of Violation of Privacy additional prohibited conduct related to the non-consensual dissemination of visual depictions containing nudity or sexual acts, conduct popularly referred to as “revenge porn”....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB419 | Pass | This amendment to the Town of Delmar Charter clarifies how a member of the Town government can be disqualified and removed from office. Also the Town Council shall determine the salary for the Mayor and members of Council by a two-thirds vote of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB395 | Pass | This bill changes “shared rigging” to “fixed rigging” as it relates to certain requirements for fishing nets set in a series.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB279 | Pass | This bill includes uniformed paramedics as an employee for purposes of the Delaware County and Municipal Police and Firefighter Pension Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB308 | Pass | In Delaware, county and municipal governments have required that land developers create common interest communities to administer, maintain, or improve common elements in the community such as pools, community centers, stormwater management systems, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB345 | Pass | Recognizing that an increasing percentage of people's lives are being conducted online and that this has posed challenges after a person dies or becomes incapacitated, this Act specifically authorizes fiduciaries to access and control the digital ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB359 | Pass | At the recommendation of the Joint Sunset Committee, this bill revises the State Examining Board of Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers’ licensing law to make it consistent with the laws of other Title 24 boards. This bill updates the Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB270 | Pass | This bill requires all contractors, subcontractors and independent contractors performing work under a public works contract to have an occupational and/or business license. Furthermore, this bill requires that all contractors verify that its subcont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB269 | Pass | This bill requires the Department of Finance to provide an anonymous reporting system for the reporting of individuals or businesses who have failed to obtain an occupational or business license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB271 | Pass | This bill requires the Division of Professional Regulation to report to the Department of Finance any person who is found to have engaged in the unlicensed practice of a profession and who the Division has reason to believe should have had a business...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB268 | Pass | This bill ensures that before the Division of Motor Vehicle registers or reregisters a corporate vehicle that proof of a valid business license has been submitted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB361 | Pass | The Bellefonte Charter has not been amended since its original passage in 1915, although the town received approval as a home-rule municipality in 1963. Two years ago, the Bellefonte Town Commission charged its Planning Commission to review the proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-08
Signed by Governor |
| HB283 | Pass | Certificates of origin for mopeds often lack a horsepower rating and imported mopeds are rated in kW and often converted incorrectly to horsepower. This has led to mopeds being titled inaccurately as motorcycles. The industry standard for moped engin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB407 | Pass | This Bill amends the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act relating to the registration of child support orders, income-withholding orders, or both, from other states. The amendments provide that such orders can be registered in Delaware by either th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB161 | Pass | Sections 1 and 2 of this bill require individual and group life insurers to provide notice of cancellation of life insurance coverage due to nonpayment of premiums and to retain proof of mailing of such notices for a one-year period. Sections 3 and 4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB384 | Pass | This Act updates the trainee and reciprocity provisions of Delaware’s home inspector licensing act which took effect last year. First, the act protects home inspector trainees from having to pay, or execute a covenant not to compete with, a sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB336 | Pass | This bill governs the offering and administration of elective supplemental individual health insurance for participating State employees. More specifically, the bill mandates payment of premiums by the participating employees, selection of the supple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB257 | Pass | This bill amends Title 18, Chapter 50, Insurance Holding Company System Registration. The language is substantially similar to the recently amended language within the NAIC Model Law – Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act. The primar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB198 | Pass | This bill removes prohibitions targeting municipal action in the area of recycling. The sunset provision of 6099A is also removed with a view toward the future crafting of legislation which will address reduction of plastic bag dissemination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB401 | Pass | The bill makes clear that Legislative Council, rather than Government Support Services, is responsible for receiving certification of the need for the printed version of the Code and the Rules from State entities or agencies. This change is intended ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB388 | Pass | This bill would allow peace officers who have completed a DHSS approved training course to receive, carry, and administer the drug naloxone. Naloxone is a prescription drug which, when administered to a person undergoing an opioid related overdose, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB313 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Rehoboth Beach to modernize certain antiquated provisions relating to the Tax Assessor and the assessment and collection of taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB311 | Pass | During hearings of the Animal Welfare Task Force, established by Senate Concurrent Resolution 44 in the 146th General Assembly, members of the public expressed serious concern about the lack in standardized training and certification of Animal Contro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB333 | Pass | 11(a), Article VIII, of the Delaware Constitution provides that “No tax … may be imposed or levied except pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly adopted with the concurrence of three-fifths of all members of each House.” A recen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB148 | Pass | This bill would direct the Office of the State Treasurer to add a Roth option to state sponsored 403(b) and 457(b) savings plans that are offered to eligible teachers and state employees. This bill would not require the state to contribute any additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB213 | Pass | This bill increases the premium tax on surplus lines from 2% to 3%. The proceeds from the increase will be used to fund medical coverage for retired State, County, and Municipal police officers and firefighters. The retirees must be retired from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB389 | Pass | The bill extends the length of a constable commission from one year to two years, thereby reducing the frequency and burden of processing them annually. This is beneficial to both the licensing division of the State Police and the industry as a whole...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB385 | Pass | Section 7606 of the federal Farm Bill exempts the growth and cultivation of industrial hemp for research purposes from the provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act, the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, Chapter 81 of Title 41...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB335 | Pass | This bill converts one of the practical nursing board member positions on the Delaware Board of Nursing to a second advanced practice nurse board member position and clarifies that the now two advanced practice nurse board members must be from differ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB416 | Pass | People First Language (“PFL”) legislation is part of a national movement to promote dignity and inclusion for people with disabilities. PFL specifies that the order of terms used to describe any individual places the person first, and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB358 | Pass | This bill explicitly recognizes the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) and the American Psychological Association (APA) as qualifying accreditors of a psychology program for purposes of holding a professional license as a psy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB238 | Pass | This bill adopts by reference federal migratory game bird possession limits established by federal regulation to provide more efficient and timely adoption of such changing regulations. This bill also clarifies that possession limits do not apply to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB403 | Pass | This bill adopts the “Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act” to allow the electronic versions of legal material published by the State, including the Constitution, the Laws of Delaware, the Delaware Code, and the Delaware Administrative C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HJR16 | Pass | This joint resolution dedicates and allows an area on the north side of the Legislative Mall to be used for the placement of a Delaware Fire Service Memorial to honor firefighters who lost their lives while serving the citizens of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| HB364 | Pass | This bill makes the following changes to Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the “Act”) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act. Section 1. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-23
Signed by Governor |
