| SB239 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act addresses the serious problem of individuals dumping large quantities of trash on public and private property, by:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act, named the Share the Care Act, permits a responsible caregiver to give permission to an individual employed by a home care agency selected by the responsible caregiver to administer medications to an adult individual who lacks decision-makin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, receipt, possession, or transport of assault weapons in Delaware, subject to certain exceptions. One exception relevant to individuals is that the Act does not prohibit the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Amendment SA 3 to SB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | 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. This Act further prohibits the dissemination of natura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Stricken in Senate |
| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act encourages and provides funding for the installation of detection equipment for deadly weapons, dangerous instruments, and other dangerous things at public, charter, and private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds "youth sports organizations" to the enumerated list of "child servicing entity" that requires background checks to be completed for those that are involved within the organizations. The bill seeks to further protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| 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 |
| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends Delawares laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the adoption of Senate Bill No. 221, which proposes a constitutional amendment to permit preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Some students from disadvantaged backgrounds arrive at school lacking the same vocabulary and word recognition skills of their peers, putting them at a disadvantage when developing literacy skills in primary grades. In analyzing this disparity, studi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
Amendment SA 1 to SB 19 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a physician to offer a patient ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services before terminating a pregnancy and provides civil and criminal penalties for the failure of a physician to comply with this requirement....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-09
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| 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 |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 7042 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code lists the completion and cost of any capital improvements or rehabilitation work in a manufactured home community, as distinguished from ordinary repair, replacement, and maintenance, as a factor that may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| 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 |
| SB188 | Engross
Sine Die | The current definition of public utility includes providers of electric or natural gas charging service. However, many parties believe it is neither desirable nor necessary to regulate such providers in Delaware. This proposed legislation modifies th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-06
Reported Out of Committee (Energy) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB179 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that the Public Advocate may appear before any federal or state court or federal or state administrative body in matters involving public utility rates, service, practices, and energy policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-06
Reported Out of Committee (Energy) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act authorizes the creation and regulation of a new type of limited-purpose bank, the "Business Development Bank." Modeled on Delaware's successful credit card bank laws, this Act would allow Business Development Banks, or "BD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-06
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the Omnibus School Safety Fund to provide funding to public and charter schools for certain school safety projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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 |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Delawares existing Criminal Code was adopted in 1973 and was based on the Model Penal Code. Since that time, the Criminal Code has quadrupled in size and expanded to other parts of the Code without consideration to the general effects of the change o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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 |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Delawares existing Criminal Code was adopted in 1973 and was based on the Model Penal Code. Since that time, the Criminal Code has quadrupled in size and expanded to other parts of the Code without consideration to the general effects of the change o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | The Act protects the life of the unborn child at a time when the potential for the child to survive outside the womb increases, especially with the advancement of medical procedures. Also, there is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| 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 |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Despite the demonstrated value of primary care, access to primary care for Delawareans has become increasingly difficult as reimbursement dollars have failed to support an adequate infrastructure. The national average for primary care investment for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Reported Out of Committee (Health, Children & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the penalties for certain offenses involving deadly weapons as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill sets the standards by which certain contractors and subcontractors are required, independently or through agreement with other organizations, to provide craft training for journeyman and apprentice levels through a bona fide program approve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| SB190 | Intro
Sine Die | This addition to Section 303 provides the Commission with the flexibility to consider and approve a low income residential utility rate or discount for qualified low income customers (those approved to participate in the Low Income Home Energy Assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
Reported Out of Committee (Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits |
| SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that the Public Advocate may appear before any federal or state court or federal or state administrative body in matters involving public utility rates, service, practices, and energy policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-30
To Senate Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to direct 35% of the funds from the auction of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative CO2 allowances to the Sustainable Energy Utility and 30% of the fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
To Senate Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| SB127 | Engross
Sine Die | This legislation corrects an inadvertent error in Delaware law that has permitted people younger than 18 years of age to vote in final-stage elections. People must be 18 years of age or older to be eligible to vote in a final-stage election such as g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB152 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act would facilitate EV and grid-integrated electric vehicle interconnection by including the Society of Automotive Engineers industrial safety standard, J3072, which sets safety requirements for EVs that provide power from their batteries back ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
Reported Out of Committee (Energy) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill establishes a 20 year retirement for correction officers and specified peace officers within the State Employees Pension plan. The bill amends the multiplier prospectively for the calculation of pension benefits for correction officers and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Amendment SA 2 to SB 95 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 |
| SB155 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act prohibits a flagger from using headphones or electronic communication devices while engaged in traffic control in a work zone. This Act permits a flagger to use an electronic communication device approved by the Department of Transportation....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-18
Tabled in Committee |
| 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 |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act extends the amount of notice that an insurer must provide to a policyholder before cancelling an automobile policy for the nonpayment of a premium from 10 to 15 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits |
| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the state employees' pension plan burial benefit from $7,000 to $10,000 effective July 1, 2016. This benefit has not been changed since July 2001.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB130 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill restores the Board of Paroles authority to hear and make decisions regarding violations of offenders released through good time credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Confessions are powerful evidence of guilt. This Act adopts the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Electronic Recordation of Custodial Interrogations Act to promote truth-finding, promote efficiency, and protect constitutional values. To accomplish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Under this Act, a provider of services under § 2118(a)(2)a.1. and 3. of Title 21 may not exceed the charges permissible under the fee schedule established by the Workers Compensation Oversight Panel for work-related injuries. And, this Act prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
