| HB164 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act clarifies section 4915 of title 10. Current section 4915 expressly provides that IRAs described in Internal Revenue Code 408 and Roth IRAs described in Internal Revenue Code 408A are exempt from certain creditor claims. The Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB163 | Pass | This bill updates the Delaware Code with respect to self-proved wills that are executed in a foreign jurisdiction by providing that a will shall be treated as self-proved under Delaware law if such will was executed in a manner that it would be consi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB133 | Pass | This bill requires builders of new, one- or two-family residential dwellings that are 3 stories or less to provide to the purchasers a cost estimate from the builder for an automatic sprinkler system, as well as information from the State Fire Marsha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| HB46 | Pass | This bill sets forth the rights of abused, neglected and dependent youth in DSCYF Custody.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-05
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB215 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act stipulates that advocates for victims of domestic violence, domestic abuse, sexual assault, abuse by a caregiver, human trafficking, or stalking may not disclose any communication made by a victim to the advocate without express written cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
