| SB234 | Pass | Currently, the ability of the Department to take licensure action (i.e., suspension, revocation, limitation) is, in certain cases, contingent upon the public school employer first taking employment action (i.e., dismissal, termination). The Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB191 | Pass | The Public Service Commission conducts an annual review of the process by which Delmarva Power obtains electricity to deliver to its customers. With 100% of supply coming from market based auctions, there has been little need to continue the Integrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB204 | Pass | Section 1 through 4 of this Act establish interim standards and criteria in order to permit redevelopment projects to move forward while revised regulations are being drafted. The interim standards set forth in this Act would effectively "sunset...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB198 | Pass | This Bill eliminates the prohibition against hunting for deer on Sundays. Additionally, it maintains the applicable agency regulating public lands authority and discretion to regulate, including prohibition of, deer hunting on Sundays. Lastly, the bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB220 | Pass | This bill creates two new vehicle license plates promoting and supporting both saltwater and freshwater fishing in the State of Delaware. The proceeds associated with The Delaware Sport Fishing License Plate, has a mission of undertaking initiatives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB174 | Pass | This Act permits an insurance company to apply for and receive a salvage certificate, clear of all liens, after payment of a total loss claim, if the insurance company has not been able to obtain the properly endorsed certificate of title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB195 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act addresses statutes under Chapter 49 of Title 10 and (i) amends the title of section 4915 (but makes no substantive changes to the statute); and (ii) modifies section 4916 to provide that plans similar to the Delaware College Inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB85 | Pass | This Act draws attention to the types of discipline used in schools by capturing data about out-of-school suspensions and publishing that data, in an effort to help schools identify areas where the data regarding out-of-school suspensions indicates t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB229 | Pass | This Act acknowledges that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has been collecting natural resource data for years without the consent of the respective property owners. From the date of this Act forward, the Department must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB170 | Pass | This bill increases the minimum wage to be paid in this State beginning in 2018 and ending in 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SJR8 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB237 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB139 | Pass | This Act requires that health insurance offered in this State provide coverage for fertility care services, including in vitro fertilization ("IVF") procedures, for individuals who suffer from a disease or condition that results in the inab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB232 | Pass | This Act expands the total number of vice-chancellors on the Court of Chancery to 6 and makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB165 | Pass | This Act permits private sector labor organizations and employers to enter into union security agreements to the full extent allowed under federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB144 | Pass | This Substitute Act implements certain recommendations adopted by the Lottery & Gaming Study Commission in 2015 and the Video Lottery Advisory Council in 2017, in recognition of significant changes in the regional gaming marketplace and the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB159 | Pass | The Act made changes to motor vehicle franchising practices, by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SJR5 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SJR6 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB236 | Pass | This Act appropriates $49,167,700 to provide a $500 one-time salary supplement to full-time and part-time employees, to provide a $400 pension supplement to pensioners and provides one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB235 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB202 | Pass | This Act ensures that the spouses of those killed in the line of duty are able to receive benefits for the remainder of their lives regardless of future marital status. When a surviving spouse remarries, the surviving spouse's benefit is reduced ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB177 | Pass | This Act brings Delaware sex offender registration laws into compliance with the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA") by standardizing the tier designation of sex offenders are assigned based upon offense of conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB101 | Pass | Every year, over 100 million animals are used as subjects of scientific and medical research, as well as for educational purposes. As recently as 2015, over 19,000 cats and over 61,000 dogs were used in research. In Delaware in 2015, 82 cats and 85 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB80 | Pass | This Act replicates and extends to electric and natural gas utilities the same authority that has previously been granted to water utilities. This authority allows for the implementation of an interim rate mechanism already in existence for water uti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB147 | Pass | Immunity from liability for individuals rendering emergency care is addressed in many sections of the Delaware Code. There are several separate statutes providing immunity for specific professions and even for lay individuals providing specific types...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB153 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Native Species Commission ("Commission"), which is one of the recommendations of the Statewide Ecological Extinction Task Force, created by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 20 of the 149th General Assembly. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| SB167 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of Fenwick Island to provide examples of documents that can be used to prove residency in the Town of Fenwick Island for purposes of voting in the annual municipal elections and change the limit on borrowing from $500,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| SB154 | Pass | Section 1 eliminates the need to use an ordinance to appoint a Town Manager and specifies that all departments, including the Police Department, report directly to the Town Manager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| SB150 | Pass | This Act reduces the membership on the Delaware Police Accreditation Commission from 16 members to 12 members. The Act also provides that: i) the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security may not vote except to break a tie; and ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| SB160 | Pass | This Act revises and improves the New Castle County Board of Assessment Review ("Board") by making revisions that are the result of practical lessons learned over the years of the Board's operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB84 | Pass | This Act makes consistent the amount of time that the Court "looks back" to determine if the current offense is a second offense for the purposes of sentencing. This Act applies to Traffic offenses, but it would not be applicable to DUI cas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| SB90 | Pass | This bill would allow for a student to participate in the Inspire Scholarship Program for eight continuous semesters instead of the current six. This would allow a student to use Inspire Scholarships for each of the semesters during a traditional col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB26 | Pass | This Act creates a one-time $100 tax credit per unit for any business purchasing and placing an automatic external defibrillator in service in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB128 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for members of the Dover Air Force Base Chiefs Group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB31 | Pass | This bill allows a hunter to use a handgun in lieu of a shotgun on farms permitted by DNREC through their Deer depredation programs to reduce agricultural crop damage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB129 | Pass | This bill makes clear that farm equipment and implements of husbandry, including when being temporarily moved or transported by a manufacturer, dealer, business, or commercial transport company, shall not be subject to the weight requirements of Sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB114 | Pass | This bill updates existing laws under Title 16 by making corrections to terms used concerning the State Spay and Neuter Program, and members assigned to the Spay and Neuter Performance Review Committee, including the addition of a representative of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB51 | Pass | This Act clarifies the definition of "subsequent offense" to mean a like offense occurring within 3 years of the former offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB158 | Pass | This Act allows a person to land food fish in Delaware that was caught using equipment or a method illegal in Delaware waters if the food fish was caught in the fishery conservation zone, the person has the necessary State and federal permits, the am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB143 | Pass | This Bill amends the membership of the Behavioral Health Consortium to include two members of both the House and Senate, a member from the Ability Network of Delaware, and the Mental Health Association in Delaware. The Bill also extends the date the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB78 | Pass | This Act enhances penalties for drivers who cause serious physical injury, as defined in § 222 of Title 11, to a vulnerable user, as defined in this Act. For a person to be guilty under this Act, the injured vulnerable user must be lawfully using a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB61 | Pass | This Act clarifies the authority of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("Committee") to hold over entities unless or until certain conditions are met or modifications are made. This Act also provides the authority for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB109 | Pass | Individuals who receive health care via Medicaid deserve the same dedication to treatment of substance abuse disorders as individuals who receive health care via private insurance. This Act extends the same access to treatment of a substance use diso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB52 | Pass | This Act will allow a retired Delaware attorney to satisfy a mortgage that the attorney paid off while in practice. Currently only attorneys still in active practice are permitted to satisfy mortgages under Section 2120. This limitation can leave no ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-29
Signed by Governor |
| SJR3 | Pass | This resolution honors our Gold Star Mothers and Gold Star Families by designating Delaware Route 202 to, Gold Star Highway Honoring Families of Fallen Service Members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB97 | Pass | This bill allows Delaware Department of Transportation authorized vehicles to be able to use the shoulder of the road when responding to emergencies. Department of Transportation staff must respond to emergencies along the road to assist police, fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB35 | Pass | This Act enacts the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact Act ("REPLICA"). With REPLICA, EMS personnel will be able to respond across state borders within the provision of their duties on a short t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB66 | Pass | On June 30, 2016, the Delaware State Senate adopted Senate Resolution No. 19 (S.R. 19), requesting the Delaware Department of Insurance (the Department) to examine the secondary market for life insurance policies and make recommendations for possible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB105 | Pass | Persons under age 18 must wear a helmet when operating or riding as a passenger on a bicycle, motorized skateboard or scooter, all terrain vehicle (ATV), off-highway vehicle (OHV), or electric personal assistive mobility device (EPAMD). See Title 21 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Signed by Governor |
