| SB223 | Pass | Meningococcal disease is an easily transmitted and potentially fatal bacterial infection. In accordance with the latest recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control, this Act updates Delaware&...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB241 | Pass | This bill reflects changes identified during discussions by the Foster Care Task Force, which was created at the direction of the Joint Sunset Committee. It also clarifies language that delineates the composition of the Board, term lengths and the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB257 | Pass | This bill allows agents of the Division of Professional Regulation to inspect persons providing electrical services to ensure compliance with the laws relating to electrical services in Title 24 of the Delaware Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB346 | Pass | This Bill creates a licensure exemption for individuals engaged solely in the practice of hair braiding, which does not involve hair cutting, dyeing or the application of chemicals. In short, hair braiding is a low risk activity which does not requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB387 | Pass | This bill creates two tiers of licensure in the state for acupuncture practitioners: One for acupuncturists only and one for acupuncturists who have been properly trained and wish to practice eastern medicine. The bill removes outdated language regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB402 | Pass | This bill authorizes the Board of Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers to establish requirements for hearing aid dispensers and audiologists to provide notification and written information to potential customers at th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB381 | Pass | Patients struggle every day to receive necessary care, suffering symptoms longer than appropriate and encountering unnecessary stress factors as they engage in the complicated system of health insurance. One such factor is Pre-Authorization, a tool d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Signed by Governor |
| SB243 | 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] | 2016-07-13
Signed by Governor |
| SB242 | Pass | This Act eliminates the financial bar to voter registration and makes technical changes to bring the chapter into conformity with 2, article V of the Constitution of this State, which no longer requires a 5 year waiting period before a person convic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB419 | Pass | This bill allows the Delaware Real Estate Commission to develop a new form of Seller’s Disclosure for the sale of vacant land being sold without a house, but being marketed as appropriate for the construction of a dwelling for 1-4 families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Signed by Governor |
| SB276 | Pass | Effective on August 1, 2016, this Act adds “statutory trust” to the definition of “person” for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Signed by Governor |
| SB233 | Pass | This Act clarifies the definitions of “in-service” and “out-of-service” aboveground storage tanks, It also adds a definition for “an imminent threat of a release” that is consistent with the definition found in 7 D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Signed by Governor |
| SB232 | Pass | This bill will clarify that pari-mutuel wagering is allowed at all types of horse racing events, whether harness racing or horse racing. Author: Senator Ennis
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB303 | Pass | This Act would start a Public Guardian’s term of office from the date of swearing in instead of the current date of appointment. The interval between the date of appointment and the date of swearing in allows for a transition period in which a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB327 | Pass | This bill permits Delaware residents to become early stage investors in Delaware based startups through newly available crowdfunding platforms. The enabling of this new investment tool allows corporations and other business to offer or sell securitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB344 | Pass | This Act modifies the existing Charter for the Municipal Services Commission for the City of New Castle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB450 | Pass | A Bond And Capital Improvements Act Of The State Of Delaware And Certain Of Its Authorities For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2017; Authorizing The Issuance Of General Obligation Bonds Of The State; Appropriating Funds From The Transportation Trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB295 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2016 2017. Section 1 – Government Units and Senior Center $20,828,628 $23,228,686 Section 2 – One-Times and Community Agencies $15,981,879 $16,470,68...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB285 | Pass | An Act Making Appropriations For The Expense Of The State Government For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2017; Specifying Certain Procedures, Conditions And Limitations For The Expenditure Of Such Funds; And Amending Certain Pertinent Statutory Provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB317 | Pass | This bill prohibits discrimination in employment based upon an individual’s caregiving responsibilities. Workers should be judged on the merits of their performance at work, not their responsibilities at home. Five states and over 90 localities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB314 | Pass | This bill makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require an employee to not disclose his or her wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB197 | Pass | After the delivery of a child, major mental and public health issues which need to be addressed may arise, including the occurrence of postpartum depression or feelings of depression, anger, anxiety, and guilt. This presents problems not only for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB358 | Pass | This Act will merge the oversight of three different state-sponsored investment plans that hold non-state monies into a single new “Plans Management Board”. In addition, the Act amends the “Achieving a Better Life Act” (“...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB316 | Pass | This bill prohibits discrimination in employment based upon an individual’s reproductive health decisions. Delaware laws currently prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex or pregnancy; however, this legislation makes it clear that an employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB199 | Pass | This Act amends Title 14, Chapter 12, Subchapter II. of the Delaware Code, creating a four-tiered licensure structure for Delaware educators. Through Senate Bill 51, the State of Delaware has significantly improved educator preparation in Delaware. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB258 | Pass | The Delaware Freedom of Information Act, 29 Del. C. Ch. 100 ("FOIA") currently exempts from the definition of public record those documents that could jeopardize security of the state, "[f]acilitate the planning of a terrorist attack,&...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB257 | Pass | Volume 78, Chapter 349, of the Delaware Laws provided the State the same statutory transfer rights afforded defendants charged with Driving Under the Influence ("DUI"). The ability of both the State and the defendant to transfer misdemeanor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB160 | Pass | This bill clarifies that the Delaware Division of Unemployment Insurance is authorized to collect unpaid claimant overpayments of benefits and unpaid employer unemployment tax assessments through offset by interception of state and federal tax refund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB322 | Pass | This bill updates the Delaware Code relating to the Delaware Board of Examiners of Psychologists. Section 1 ensures that the internship requirement for applicants for psychological assistant registration is equivalent to the internship required of ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB382 | Pass | This Act guarantees that all children facing criminal charges and allegations of delinquency have the right to an attorney, codifying the Office of Defense Services’ current practice of representing every juvenile that requests representation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB309 | Pass | This Act would remove the exemption from the Freedom of Information Act that currently exists for proceedings and records of the Special Law Enforcement Assistance Fund (SLEAF), making those records and proceedings of that fund subject to the State&#...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB288 | Pass | This legislation increases the penalty of unlawfully using any brake or braking system that is attached to, or an integral part of the vehicle’s internal combustion engine or exhaust systems, also known as a jake brake, to include a moving viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB313 | Pass | This Act would allow Delaware Courts the flexibility to permit by Court Rule the use of unsworn declarations made under penalty of perjury in lieu of sworn declarations, including verified pleadings and affidavits. With the continued move toward elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB214 | Pass | Currently, for an assault to rise to the level of assault in the second degree against a nurse, the nurse must be rendering emergency care. This bill includes an assault on a nurse performing a work-related duty as a second degree assault.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB335 | Pass | This housekeeping bill removes the reference to “Chapter 85 of Title 11” from the criminal background check requirements for school bus and taxicab/limousine endorsements. This statute reference points to public school background check re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB334 | Pass | This bill provides that in the cases of toll violations, the penalty assessment imposed by 4101 (h) and (j) of Title 11 of the Delaware Code may be suspended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB342 | Pass | At the recommendation of the Joint Sunset Committee (“Committee”), this Act establishes the Department of Elections Voting Equipment Selection Task Force (“Task Force”). The current voting equipment used in Delaware will need ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB304 | Pass | This bill amends Title 18, Chapter 80, and is an accreditation requirement as of January 1, 2017. The amendments involve including a new subsection for Governance Standards for Risk Retention Groups which include the below-listed seven items. Existin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB320 | Pass | This bill removes “homosexuality” and “lesbianism” from the definition of misconduct that may be used as grounds for a divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB353 | Pass | This bill eliminates the requirement that a mortgage be under seal in order for it to be enforced through a foreclosure proceeding in the Superior Court pursuant to Chapter 49 of Title 10. The under seal requirement is most prominently described in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB93 | Pass | As non-profit entities, rural electric cooperatives are exempt from the fee imposed for a business license and the taxes assessed on gross receipts set forth in Chapter 23 of Title 30. This Act confirms that the non-commercial generation of solar ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB253 | Pass | This Act adds provisions to 4004 of Title 7 to exclude from Chapter 40 of Title 7 land disturbing activities of 1 acre or less of land and to exclude from the requirement for a sediment and stormwater management plan the construction of an agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB378 | Pass | This bill amends the insurance law to clarify the status of funding agreements issued by life insurers, including for purposes of premium taxes, form filing and priority of claims in an insurer’s delinquency proceeding. Delaware law allows fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB368 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB367 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB372 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB338 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Seaford by altering the voting hours for a special election for annexation, borrowing money, or issuing bonds. It also authorizes the Seaford City Council to offer tax exemptions to economic development proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB187 | Pass | An Act To Amend The Charter Of The Town Of Millville
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB73 | Pass | This legislation updates the Self-Service Storage Facility Act to permit notice being sent by electronic mail. As regards notices of default, this legislation includes specific protections for occupants of said facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB325 | Pass | This bill closes a loophole to our gun background check laws. The current loophole allows for guns to be given to a potential purchaser if the background check is delayed for 3 days or more. In some cases a gun is given to a person who should not be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Signed by Governor |
