| HB77 | Pass | This bill amends Delaware’s version of the “Move Over Law” by including vehicles owned or operated by a public utility, as defined under 26 Del.C., 102(2), that are performing roadside work, provided they have properly surrounded t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB128 | Pass | This bill amends the Charter for the Board of Public Works of the City of Lewes to increase the terms for elected Directors from two (2) years to three (3) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SJR2 | Pass | The amount of testing required of our students and educators has grown significantly in recent years. While the General Assembly recognizes the need to administer assessments that provide valid and reliable data about how Delaware’s students ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| HB169 | Pass | This legislation codifies that the Department of Transportation is permitted to use design-build contracting methodology for Transportation Trust Fund projects. In 1999, the General Assembly gave the Department the authority to conduct a pilot progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB112 | Pass | This Act fulfills the recommendation of the Joint Sunset Committee that the Delaware Economic Development Office (“Office”) be required to develop a comprehensive state plan for economic development every 5 years and submit annual reports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB36 | Pass | After the General Assembly adopted a drafting procedure using strikethrough and underline, some inconsistencies and confusion about how amendments to bill should be drafted resulted. In the effort to update the Legislative Drafting Manual, the Divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB42 | Pass | This bill: (i) clarifies but does not substantively alter the existing law regarding the permissibility of the terms of a governing instrument to vary the right of a beneficiary to be informed of the beneficiary’s interest in a trust for a peri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB126 | Pass | This Act adopts the ABA standard for juvenile delinquency by establishing the age of 10 as the minimum age of responsibility in juvenile prosecutions. Currently, at least 11 other states (including Pennsylvania) have adopted the ABA standard. Since 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB118 | Pass | This bill expressly identifies that a mandatory reporter of child abuse or neglect cannot rely upon a person with less direct knowledge to call the hotline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB159 | Pass | This Act lowers the required number of affirmative votes necessary to waive a disqualifying event for a new applicant for licensure with the Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline from twelve members to nine members. Nine members constitu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB162 | Pass | This bill adds up to 5 citizen members to the Board of Directors of the Center for the Inland Bays in order to include more citizen representation on the Board and to improve the Center’s capacity to procure and administer private moneys secure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB111 | Pass | As more healthcare services continue to move into the community, it is necessary to clearly define the scope of services offered in community settings. This legislation will update the Delaware Code to clearly define the level of medication administr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB10 | Pass | Stand By Me is an innovative financial empowerment program that has been operating within DHSS for the past two years. Stand By Me is designed as a partnership model, integrated into the culture and operations of businesses, educational institutions,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB5 | Pass | This Act adds electronic smoking devices to the Clean Indoor Air Act and prohibits the use of electronic smoking devices in all public places where smoking is prohibited under current law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB69 | Pass | The advancements and continued development of medical and communications technology have had a profound impact on the practice of medicine and offer opportunities for improving the delivery and accessibility of health care in and across the many prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-07
Signed by Governor |
| SR10 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution establishes a “Delaware Works Strategic Fund” pilot program Task Force to consider a fund a pilot WDEP. This public works program would create jobs for Delawareans ready, willing and able to work and unable to find long te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 1 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB166 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that will limit the ability of the State to appropriate Transportation Trust Fund moneys to a purpose other than (1) capital expenditures on the public transportation system, including the road ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB225 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
HS 1 for HB 225 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 18 YES 3 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB101 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act creates a new Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (“APRN”) Committee to assist the Board of Nursing in the regulation of nursing practice consistent with the national Consensus Model for APRN regulation. Included in the Act are pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
SS 1 for SB 101 - Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 35 YES 0 NO 5 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB230 | Pass | An Act Making Appropriations For Certain Grants-in-aid For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2016; Specifying Certain Procedures, Conditions And Limitations For The Expenditure Of Such Funds, Amending The Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SCR39 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution forms a working group to make a recommendation as to whether or not the Budget Bill should continue to be treated as a simple majority Bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB160 | Enroll
Sine Die | A Bond And Capital Improvements Act Of The State Of Delaware And Certain Of Its Authorities For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2016; Authorizing The Issuance Of General Obligation Bonds Of The State; Appropriating Funds From The Transportation Trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
SS 1 for SB 160 - Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 40 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HB140 | Pass | This bill increases several revenue sources for the Transportation Trust Fund. The motor vehicle document fee is increased from 3.75% to 4.25%. The fee for late renewal of a driver’s license is increased from $1.15 to $10, and the fee for late ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SCR34 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution establishes the Complex Chronic Disease Task Force to examine complex chronic disease management in Delaware and make recommendations for the improvement of services and access to high quality care. Author: Senator Hall-Lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB145 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill raises the prevailing wage rate contract threshold amount from $100,000 to $500,000 for new construction and from $15,000 to $45,000 for alterations, repairs, renovations, etc. Also the bill establishes a set prevailing wage rate and elimin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
HS 1 for HB 145 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB102 | Pass | This bill will bring Delaware into compliance with 23 U.S.C 164 pertaining to repeat DUI offenders. If found out of compliance with Section 164, the Federal Highway Administration will reserve 2.5% of the State’s federal highway funds as penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB179 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill establishes a writ of attachment of tax refunds and lottery winnings. This bill provides a procedure for interception of tax refunds and lottery winnings by the Department of Finance for judgments resulting from a breach of a residential or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Defeated by Senate. Votes: Defeated 9 YES 10 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HJR9 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB112 | Enroll
Sine Die | Like all judges within the state, the judges of the Justice of the Peace Court are subject to the jurisdiction of the Court on the Judiciary. This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would add the Chief Magistrate to the Court on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB171 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill establishes a Telecommunications Tax Modernization Review Group to study and make recommendations for establishing a future funding mechanism to replace the property tax on telecommunications equipment and addressing the projected decrease ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
HS 2 for HB 171 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HJR8 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SCR37 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution creates a Task Force to review the Price’s Corner Government Complex to review and make recommendations to improve this state facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB27 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires all new school construction or major renovation to include the following features: an intruder alarm, bulletproof glass in entrance areas and interior doors and windows, and doors lockable with keys on both sides. Further, the bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Stricken |
| SCR29 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution establishes the Behavioral and Mental Health Task Force to examine mental health in the State of Delaware and make recommendations for the improvement of services and the mental healthcare system. Author: Senator Hall-Long
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SCR30 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution establishes a Clean Water and Flood Abatement Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-01
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB101 | Pass | This bill amends the Charter of the Town of Bellefonte, which was reincorporated last year. Specifically, the bill removes forfeiture of office by a Commissioner for attendance, as well as the Commission’s ability to vote on such a forfeiture. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB84 | Pass | This bill would require that breastfeeding women be excused from jury service in the courts of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB2 | Pass | This bill requires on-going sexual assault training for police officers and Deputy Attorney Generals in the Criminal and Family Divisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SJR1 | Pass | This Joint Resolution requires every law enforcement agency, law department, hospital, testing facility, and prosecutorial agency to report to the Attorney General’s Office the number of unexamined sexual assault kits and their date of collecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB38 | Pass | This bill specifies procedures that must be followed during pharmacy audits. The bill also establishes procedures for modifying contracts between pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies. This bill is based on legislation passed in Minnesota in 2012 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB51 | Pass | The Fund to Combat Violent Crimes was established by House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 143 of the 146th General Assembly. The Fund is funded by an additional penalty of $15 levied upon individuals convicted of crimes. This bill ensures that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB85 | Pass | An Act To Amend Title 13 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB51 | Pass | This bill expands the definition of a person eligible to testify remotely by means of closed circuit television. In any prosecution involving an offense set forth in 11 Del. C. 3513(a), a court may order that the testimony of a victim or witness, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB118 | Pass | Delaware’s Residential Landlord Tenant Code provides as a protection for tenants that any utility service charges for which the tenant is responsible be separately metered to assure that the tenant only pays for services the tenant actually use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HR21 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Resolution establishes the Traffic Fines Working Group to explore best practices and possible improvements to the process of imposing and collecting fines for minor traffic offenses. The Working Group will report its findings to the Govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB119 | Pass | This bill removes the prohibition on selling an alcoholic beverage to a person with a mental condition or mental disability. The prohibition is a vestige from the 1935 Code, predates enactment of the federal ADA and Delaware Equal Accommodations Law,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB116 | Pass | This bill was recommended by the Executive Order 45 Re-Entry Education Task Force. That task force was created to examine the present system and to make recommendations on how to best serve youth educationally as they leave juvenile justice secure fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB191 | Pass | This bill would facilitate the growth of Delaware licensed craft distilleries by allowing them to expand their businesses within the State by permitting them to sell unfinished bulk neutral spirits to distilleries located within and outside the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB41 | Pass | This Act gives State law enforcement agencies the ability to prosecute those who aim the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft. This Act supplements Federal prosecution efforts focused on deaths or injuries caused by use of laser pointers by enactin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB4 | Pass | This bill expressly prohibits employment discrimination based on surviving sexual assault, domestic violence, or stalking. Employers must provide reasonable accommodations, which may include re-purposing accrued leave originally designated for a diff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
Signed by Governor |
