| HB307 | Pass | In 2015, the Legislature enacted the one-time fee of no more than $100 for an educator’s first license in Delaware. This Bill provides a waiver for graduates of Delaware high schools and graduates of teacher preparatory programs located in Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| HCR87 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes Delaware Technical and Community College on the 50th anniversary of its founding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 19 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB220 | Pass | This bill would amend the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council’s statute to elect a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson every other year for a two year term rather than annually, and changes the annual report deadline from September to October. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB390 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill clarifies that a vote by the General Assembly as required in 14 Del C. 1008(g) and 1026(d) in support of redistricting serves to authorize the State Board to proceed with the redistricting, but does not constitute approval of any particula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Stricken |
| HB114 | Pass | As promoted in the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles Motorcycle Operator Manual, it is recommended to motorcycle, Mopeds, and Motorized Scooter operators that they temporarily flash brake lights when stopping in order to increase visibility to othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB180 | Pass | This Act provides procedures to ensure that each child with a disability who has reached age 18 has an identified educational decision-maker to exercise rights under this chapter. A child with a disability who has capacity may exercise his own rights...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB339 | Pass | This Act permits craft distilleries to purchase alcoholic beverages that they do not manufacture to add to products they do produce to sell to their patrons for on premises consumption. For example, this Bill would allow a craft distillery to sell fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB410 | Intro
Sine Die | In recognition of the fact that criminal records can be a hindrance to obtaining employment, education, or credit among citizens who are innocent or who have led responsible and law-abiding lives for a substantial period of time since being convicted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB210 | Pass | This Act permits the imposition of work referral in order to work off fines and costs in offenses which are classified as civil violations. Work referral is currently permitted as an option for working off fines and costs for civil violations under T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | A number of States have adopted measures to encourage angel investors to make an investment into scientific or technology based companies. This funding is critical in order for these new companies to get off the ground and to begin operating. This bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB414 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is designed to clarify certain issues that have arisen in the administration of 354(i) and (j) of Delaware’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act (“REPSA”), which were added to REPSA in 2010. The Bill resolves those is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To House Energy Committee |
| HB343 | Pass | The Joint Sunset Committee has existed since at least 1980 and, over time, it has become clear that the Committee's name does not accurately reflect all of the work that the Committee actually performs. The Committee has "sunsetted" an agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB347 | Pass | This bill changes the composition of the Delaware Board of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Professional from thirteen total members to nine and lessens the required number of professional members to help ensure that there are no Board vacancies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB270 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill will create a process to have an eleven-member Commission appointed every ten years to redistrict the Senate and House of Representatives of the Delaware General Assembly. “The Redistricting Commission for the State of Delaware”...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB292 | Pass | This bill requires schools to post the toll-free telephone report line number for child abuse and neglect in a conspicuous location, where it may be viewed by students. Currently the number is 1-800-292-9582.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB425 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill clarifies that a vote by the General Assembly as required in 14 Del. C. 1008(g) and 1026(d) in support of redistricting serves to authorize the State Board to proceed with the redistricting, but does not constitute approval of any particul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-09
Introduced in House and assigned to Education Committee |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a special license plate urging motorists not to use electronic devices and drive. Having these plates visible on Delaware’s roadways will help raise public awareness and encourage drivers to keep their eyes on the road, not on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill prohibits the purchase, acquisition, receipt, or transfer of any human fetal tissue or the solicitation of such fetal tissue for certain purposes. Federal law 42 U.S.C.A. 289g-2 prohibits such actions if they affect interstate commerce an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Under the current School Choice program, there are certain students who may receive priority consideration for enrollment in the school of their choice. This Bill adds a new priority consideration for students who have a medical condition or disabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Amendment HA 3 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SCR79 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution congratulates Dr. Mark T. Brainard on becoming the 5th President of Delaware Technical and Community College.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| SB226 | Pass | The work of the Behavioral and Mental Health Task Force indicated a greater need for psychiatric services statewide. This Act meets this need by eliminating the need for additional review by the Delaware Health Resources Board for a 90 bed psychiatri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
Signed by Governor |
| HB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Many Homeowners’ Associations are faced with the frustrating situation of attempting to collect assessments from delinquent homeowners while facing expensive legal costs to enforce their rights. In addition, if the Homeowners’ Association...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-08
HS 1 for HB 254 - Assigned to Housing & Community Affairs |
| HB283 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill is the Veterans, Skilled Workers, and Community Workforce Act. It requires that on all state-funded construction, public works, or improvement projects that contractors and subcontractors must draw 30% of their workforce from the Representa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB300 | Pass | This Act permits those under 14, with the permission of a parent or one legally standing in the place of a parent, to volunteer or perform work for horse farms and other equine operations, just as those under 14 may do for other types of farms, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB289 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill allows for the hunting of deer on private land on Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
HS 1 for HB 289 - Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 14 YES 7 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| HCR84 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes June 7 through June 28, 2016, as the “22 in 22 Challenge” in the State of Delaware and encourages all Delawareans to learn about and raise awareness of veteran suicide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SB196 | Intro
Sine Die | The Truth-in-Sentencing Act of 1989, 67 Del. Laws, c. 130, abolished parole in Delaware, but it also allowed inmates to work toward an early release by earning “good time” credits for good behavior and participating in programming. Howeve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Adult & Juvenile Corrections Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act will create a three-year pilot program for disadvantaged students in primary grades in Delaware public schools. The state will provide $1 million in grant funding per year, over a three year period, to support the pilot program. Under the Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | The Truth-in-Sentencing Act of 1989 (“the Act”), 67 Del. Laws, c. 130, abolished parole in Delaware. In place of parole, the Act instituted the sentence modification process in order to allow some defendants to be considered for early rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is a result of recommendations made by the Joint Sunset Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| SB191 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act intends to ensure that political subdivisions of this State follow the state and federal laws governing immigration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2011, House Bill No. 19, otherwise known as the Ned Carpenter Act, 78 Del. Law, c. 13, overhauled the statutory penalties for drug offenses. Notably, it drastically reduced the mandatory minimum sentences for many drug offenses. These changes para...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB398 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill makes certain grandchildren eligible to receive a survivor’s pension if the state employee has a court ordered guardianship of the grandchild.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
To House Administration Committee |
| HB240 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes the Statewide Afterschool Initiative Learning Program. The Program will provide grants to public schools, that qualify as Title I schools, to develop afterschool engagement of students that will provide extended learning, homewo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
Amendment HA 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB202 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill expands upon the existing at-store recycling program regarding the use of single-use plastic bags. The existing requirements will continue, however stores subject to this program will now be required to charge 5 cents for every single use c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
Amendment HA 4 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB161 | Intro
Sine Die | An Act To Amend Title 14 Of The Delaware Code Establishing The Parent Empowerment Education Savings Account Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-02
Amendment HA 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB284 | Pass | This bill requires pharmacy benefit managers who employ “maximum allowable cost,” or “MAC” pricing for multi-sourced drugs to follow set standards in composing and updating the list, to provide information on MAC and how it is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB312 | Pass | This Act updates the Delaware Department of Transportation’s process for disposing of excess land by removing the 12-month marketing requirement before real property can be disposed of at absolute auction. This Act also changes the date for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB217 | Pass | This bill reassigns the responsibility of dog control and dangerous dog management from the counties of this state to the Delaware Division of Public Health Office of Animal Welfare, and updates procedures for handling dangerous and potentially dange...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB61 | Pass | This bill requires that all public meetings of the boards of education of public school districts, vo-tech school districts, and public meetings of charter schools’ boards of directors be digitally recorded and made available to the public on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB272 | Pass | This Act allows the Family Court to exercise jurisdiction over parties married to each other who own jointly titled real property which may have been acquired prior to their marriage and not in contemplation of marriage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB271 | Pass | This Act adds to the definition of “marital property” property that parties acquire by joint title prior to their marriage, not necessarily in contemplation of marriage, unless the parties exclude it as marital property through a valid ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB212 | Pass | This Act permits the Superior Court to temporarily assign duties to a retired Commissioner at the designation of the President Judge with the approval of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A retired Commissioner must have been in good standing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB255 | Pass | This Act adds violations of a county or municipal code to the list of offenses that are eligible for probation before judgment. County and municipal code violations are similar in nature to the types of offenses that were previously eligible for prob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB264 | Pass | This charter amendment consolidates the authority of the Town of Wyoming to regulate nuisances into one location within the charter and clarifies the Town’s authority to regulate nuisances. This charter amendment raises the taxation limit of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB32 | Pass | This bill removes the time limitation applicable to exemptions for real property and manufactured homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB326 | Pass | This Act makes technical corrections based on the enactment of House Bill No. 360 of the 147th General Assembly (Chapter 424, Volume 79 of the Laws of Delaware) so that the Department of Health and Social Services is named as the responsible agency, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Signed by Governor |
| SCR69 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates May 22, 2016 as “Delaware Conservation Day” in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HCR81 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution strongly encourages employees and state health plan participants to make good choices like being a wise health care consumer, choosing lower cost health care services, getting appropriate level of care, managing chronic diseases and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 20 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT |
| SCR78 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the month of May 2016 as “Healthy Vision Month” in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
