| SJR4 | Pass | While Delaware is deeply committed to preparing every child to reach his or her full potential and succeed in the new economy, the State will not be able to build a world-class education system for its children without modernizing the 70-year-old edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB209 | Pass | This bill amends the zoning authority for the 3 counties to expressly provide that each county may, via its zoning processes, regulate parking and parking areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB148 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Wilmington Education Improvement Commission as recommended by the recent report on Strengthening Wilmington Education, prepared by the Wilmington Education Advisory Committee. The Wilmington Education Improv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| SB127 | Pass | This Bill amends the Charter for the City of Lewes to include the Savannah Place and Highland Acres subdivisions as areas annexed into the City. This Bill also aligns absentee voting in special annexation elections with absentee voting for annual mun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HJR6 | Pass | This House Joint Resolution directs the DPAS II Advisory Committee to review and make recommendations to the current educator evaluation system. This Resolution also limits the State Department of Education’s ability to propose changes to certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| SB132 | Pass | This Act provides that driver’s licenses will not be renewed nor will duplicate licenses be issued if there are outstanding fines of fees for minor traffic offenses subject to voluntary assessment until such fees are paid by the license applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB69 | Pass | An Act To Amend Title 21 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Registration And Control Of Off-highway Vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB145 | Pass | This bill imposes a renewal fee for the recertification application of a certified nursing assistant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB132 | Pass | This amendment clarifies that regardless of whether parental rights have been terminated, a petition for protection from abuse may be filed on behalf of a child against a former parent whose conduct constitutes abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | At the recommendation of the Joint Sunset Committee and in an effort to make it less difficult to find qualified members to fill the Open Space Council, this Act simplifies the appointment terms and expirations and requires that all three counties be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB106 | Pass | This Bill clarifies that the Department of Transportation can set and post a lower speed limit at the delineation of the non-highway speed toll plaza area along Delaware State Route 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB151 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend the timeframe in which Sussex County Council must pass a formal resolution after posting the notices of the establishment or revision of a sanitary sewer or water district. This bill proposes to substitute ninety ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB123 | Pass | This bill revises the statutory provisions relating to reciprocity requirements for barbers, cosmetologists, and aestheticians. Currently an applicant from a state with licensure standards less stringent than those of Delaware must show 5 continuous ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB50 | Pass | This bill clarifies the definition of a Correction Officer in the State Employees’ Pension Plan by expanding the existing requirements from supervising inmates to supervising Correctional Officers in secure facilities and/or classified with a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB157 | Pass | As more services move outside of hospital walls, it is necessary to clearly define the scope of services offered in outpatient settings. Citizens of Delaware cannot be expected to discern the differences in levels of care offered in outpatient facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB110 | Pass | An Act To Amend Title 31 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Child Care Licensing And Penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB146 | Pass | Delaware is one of only a few states that does not charge a fee for educator licensure or for certifications. Delaware processes approximately 10,000 applications for licensure and certification each year, in addition to other processing requests for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB76 | Pass | This bill implements the NAIC’s revised Standard Valuation Law (SVL). The revised model authorizes a principle-based reserve (PBR) basis for life, annuity and accident and health contracts. A PBR valuation is a reserve valuation that uses one o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB117 | Pass | This bill revises the language regarding the requirement of resident applicants and nonresident applicants declaring Delaware to be their home state to obtain state and federal background checks to permit these applicants to obtain both the state and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB143 | Pass | This bill amends Title 18, Chapter 50 - Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act to include recently amended language to the NAIC Model Act, authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to act as Group-Wide Supervisor of internationally-active insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB151 | Pass | This bill addresses informed consent for disclosing genetic information by adding those individuals authorized to access EMR and DHIN.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB187 | Pass | This bill adjusts the criminal background check and review period for taxi and limousine drivers to equal what is expected of a driver for a Transportation Network Company such as Uber or Lyft.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB88 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Division of Parks and Recreation to augment the funding it receives from the State Budget thru proactive endeavors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB138 | Pass | Independent, high quality research regarding the safety and efficacy of medical marijuana is important to public and patient safety. This Act allows for rigorous scientific study to assess the safety, effects, and efficacy of cannabis and cannabis co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB166 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow injured workers who seek medical care from out-of-state, non-certified health care providers, in the payment of their medical expenses. This revision will correct a flaw in the current statute that was exposed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB172 | Pass | The Delaware Supreme Court, in State v. Barnes, Del. Supr., No. 52, 2014, Strine, C.J. (June 2, 2015) (Opinion), concluded that, based upon “the settled sentencing practices employed by courts, the Department of Correction, and the Board of Par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB61 | Pass | This Act clarifies that school buses are not exempt from the requirement to stop at railroad grade crossings regulated by a traffic-control signal or at railroad grade crossings protected by crossing gates or flashing lights. Section 4163 currently i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB107 | Pass | This Act enables the Department of Health and Social Services to promulgate regulations allowing home health agencies and personal assistance services agencies to provide services in nursing facilities and hospitals. This change will allow consumers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB120 | Pass | The Regulatory Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 improves Delaware’s regulatory environment for individuals and small businesses in several significant ways. First, it requires each agency to submit a “regulatory flexibility ana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB147 | Pass | On June 14, 2012, Governor Jack Markell signed Executive Order No. 36 (“EO 36”) to help reduce impediments to economic growth and to improve the efficiency of state government. EO 36 requires each Executive Branch agency to periodically r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB113 | Pass | The Regulatory Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 improves Delaware’s regulatory environment for individuals and small businesses in several significant ways. First, the Act improves transparency by requiring each agency to submit a &#...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB141 | Pass | This legislation modifies Delaware's unclaimed property laws in accordance with the recommendations of the Unclaimed Property Task Force formed pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 59 of the 147th General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB25 | Pass | This bill authorizes the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to allow the harvesting of gray foxes and permitting of same.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB109 | Pass | This charter amendment authorizes the Mayor of the Town of South Bethany to appoint as committee chairs members of the Town Council or individuals who are not members of Town Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB121 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Seaford by amending the filing deadline for a candidate for Mayor or City Council and the hours that the polls are open for the annual City elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB56 | Pass | This bill establishes authority for the Department to file a petition with Family Court to compel an uncooperative parent or guardian to complete a drug or alcohol evaluation or mental health evaluation for themselves or to get a developmental screen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB153 | Pass | Hunting, trapping, and fishing license and vessel registration sales provide the primary revenues for wildlife and fish species research and management, habitat conservation and management, hunter and angler public access, public boating access facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB34 | Pass | When a certified repair technician completes repairs to a customer’s vehicle, the technician’s best validation of the repair is to test drive the vehicle before returning it to the customer. Many times a customer’s vehicle’s r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB91 | Pass | This bill involves the public school immunization program. Currently, the Affidavit of Religious Belief does not expressly alert parents or guardians who file for the religious exemption from the program that the child will be temporarily excluded fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB97 | Pass | This charter amendment authorizes the Town of Smyrna to set the tax rate at the same time it adopts its annual budget and it eliminates the mandatory offering of a discount for early payment of taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB108 | Pass | This Act is the result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee. First, this Act adds a statement of the Advisory Council on Tidal Finfisheries’ purpose. Next, this Act changes the method of constituting the Council from gubernator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB58 | Pass | The bill will codify the Newborn Screening Program, which screens infants for a number of metabolic, hematologic, endocrinologic, immunologic and certain structural disorders. This bill also clarifies that genetic information disclosed and obtained p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows for a public place where allergens are present (i.e. restaurant, sports arena, camps, shopping malls, etc.) to get a prescription for and then have emergency medicine on hand to administer. There must be designated employees who are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB105 | Pass | This Act amends Section 938 of Title 5 of the Delaware Code to permit the transfer of fiduciary accounts that are administered in the State of Delaware by a banking organization or trust company that has a place of business in the State of Delaware, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB167 | Pass | This Act limits the ability of the 148th General Assembly to appropriate Transportation Trust Fund moneys to a purpose other than (1) capital expenditures on the public transportation system, including the road system, grants and allocations for inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB208 | Pass | Under Title 4, 514(h), motorsports speedways are allowed to permit patrons to bring their own alcoholic beverages with them for their own personal consumption. Right now, only Dover International Speedway meets the seating capacity identified in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SJR5 | Pass | This Senate Joint Resolution creates a Delaware Motion Picture and Television Development Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB70 | Pass | This bill provides for the transfer of property from the Appoquinimink School District to the Town of Townsend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB183 | Pass | This Act extends the existence of the Water Supply Coordinating Council from January 1, 2016, to January 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this Act is to eliminate the potential for improper electioneering in schools being used as polling placed and to increase voter participation. To accomplish this purpose, this Act directs the Department of Elections to conduct all pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
To Senate Education Committee |
