| SB87 | Pass | This Act updates the school stability law for children in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (DSCYF) following passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which reauthorizes the Elementary a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB44 | Pass | This Bill clarifies that every prescriber holding a controlled substance registration must be registered with the Prescription Monitoring Program. Further, prescribers who receive a CSR (controlled substances registration) for the first time must reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB86 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Family Court to appoint an education decision maker for abused, dependent, neglected, and delinquent children and children in the custody of the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families under Chapter 25 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB70 | Pass | Sections 1 and 7. These sections amend Sections 15-108(d) and 15-1102(a)(1)(a) of the Act to clarify and confirm the distinction between domestic partnerships and foreign partnerships and to make certain other conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB48 | Pass | Under this Act, a pharmacist who dispenses narloxone under an established set of circumstances is not subject to disciplinary or other adverse action under any professional licensing statute or criminal liability, or liable for damages related to inj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB4 | Pass | In January 2017, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 148th General Assembly in 2016. Whil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB1 | Pass | In every December in the years 2010 through 2015, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation enacted that year. While technic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB63 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act updates the Delaware Code relating to the Board of Nursing (Board) by eliminating conflicting definitions of an advanced practice registered nurse in the Code, correcting inaccurate cross-references, and eliminating references t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB103 | Pass | This Act extends the Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit Program annual fees for facilities in Delaware. This Act was developed through the Title V Operating Permit Program Advisory Committee. The existing statutory authorization for the fees suns...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB74 | Pass | This Act fulfills recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee. First, this Act adds language to establish the circumstances under which Trustees of the Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation may be remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB45 | Pass | This Bill adds 3,4-dichloro-N-[2-(dimethylamino)cyclohexyl]-N-methylbenzamide (U-47700) to Schedule I of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. U-47700, also known as Pink, is a synthetic opioid recently encountered by law enforcement and public heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB24 | Pass | This Act removes the requirement that a psychiatrist be the physician who signs the written certification in support of an applicant's application for medical marijuana and adds anxiety to the list of debilitating conditions which a person can ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires that health insurance offered in this State provide coverage for fertility care services, including in vitro fertilization ("IVF") procedures for persons, who along with their partner, suffer from a disease or condition th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act will direct the first $8 million in auction proceeds received from the sale of emission allowances through the regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and CO2 Emission Trading Program to be directed to the General Fund for the fiscal year 2018. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | This act enhances the penalty for Theft when the victim is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB125 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2018 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB9 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act is intended to implement the recommendations in the December 9, 2015 Report of the Work A Day Earn A Pay Task Force. The Act will create a Work A Day Earn A Pay Public Works Jobs Program in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-02
To House Labor Committee |
| SB137 | Pass | This Act provides for the expense of State government after June 30, 2017, on a temporary basis as appropriated under the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget and for granting authority to continue appropriation lines in the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget, the Fiscal Ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB59 | Pass | This Act replaces the current multistate nurse licensure compact with an enhanced version. The enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact allows for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to have one multistate license, with the privilege to practice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware has consistently been regarded as the preeminent state nationwide with regards to its treatment of corporations due to the fact that the Delaware Corporate Code has continued to evolve in a way to ensure fairness in the treatment of corporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-30
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable |
| SB79 | Pass | This Act makes corrections and changes to Senate Bill No. 13 of the 149th General Assembly (81 Del. Laws, c. 1), which was signed February 2, 2017, as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires that a board or commission created after the effective date of this Act submit the initial adopted rules and regulations pertaining to the licensure, maintenance, and standards of the board or commission to the Joint Legislative Ove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the Delaware Student Entrepreneur Program Fund. The primary purposes of the Act are as follows: (1) To attract and retain high-skilled, entrepreneurs, including immigrants to the United States, that graduated from Delaware higher edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
Amendment SA 2 to SB 112 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, on average, an incarcerated parent with a child support order has the potential to leave prison with nearly $20,000 in child support debt, having entered the system with around half that amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would prohibit a person, who was adjudicated a delinquent for a crime that would otherwise be a felony if the person was not a minor, from being a qualified voter for a period of 10 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Amendment SA 1 to SB 119 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would prohibit individuals with an adjudication of delinquency involving physical or sexual assault crimes against another child or an adult from being an employee, volunteer, or contractor for a child-serving entity. Such prohibition shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Amendment SA 1 to SB 118 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill would prevent an employer operating a nursing facility or similar facility from employing or continuing to employ a person with an adjudication of delinquency deemed disqualifying by DHSS's regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Amendment SA 1 to SB 120 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware's Community College System, operated by Delaware Technical and Community College (the College), plays a critical role in the State's economy by providing workforce development and transfer education that connects Delawareans with goo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-21
Amendment SA 1 to SB 50 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB54 | Pass | The continued existence and dissemination of a juvenile criminal record hampers an individuals ability to become a successful and productive member of society. These criminal histories are a hindrance to employment, education, housing and credit. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires the Family Court of the State of Delaware to report adjudications of delinquency involving physical or sexual assault crimes, which are defined in this bill as they are in Title 31 of the Delaware Code, section 309, governing backg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2017-06-15
Stricken in Senate |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is modeled after American Laws for American Courts legislation that has passed in Tennessee, Louisiana, Arizona, Kansas, South Dakota, Alabama, and North Carolina. The Declaration of Independence announced the formation of a new country that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Judicial & Community Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB57 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act places a duty on the drivers of motor vehicles to clean ice and snow off of their vehicles prior to driving on the States highways. Greater penalties are provided for ice or snow dislodging from a moving vehicle and causing physical injury o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates a 3-year exemption for public school construction from prevailing wage requirements. Also the public school will prepare cost study comparison reports for the Controller General's Office to compile and report to the General Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2 | Engross
Sine Die | This legislation amends the Delaware Code to establish the Department of Human Resources by transferring various divisions and other organizational units from the Office of Management and Budget to the newly established Department of Human Resources....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-09
To House Administration Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill reduces the size and weight requirements for oversized vehicles that are permitted to be parked or stored on a highway in a residence district in New Castle County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-09
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB21 | Pass | This bill vests the authority for regulating seed in Delaware with the Delaware Department of Agriculture and repeals any inconsistent act or parts of acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB36 | Pass | This Act more effectively and efficiently clarifies the enforcement authority of the Department of Agriculture regarding livestock at large. The offenses will now be civil penalties rather than criminal fines, expenses for impoundment will be reimbur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB5 | Pass | The United States Supreme Courts decisions in Roe v. Wade and subsequent cases established that access to abortion is a constitutional right and that states may not prohibit abortion prior to viability. As a result of these decisions, and the exercis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act inserts additional language to clarify that a qualified voter must be 18 years of age on or before the date of the election a vote is to be cast.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act sets the minimum educational courses for each grade. It does not set the curriculum for these courses or how they will be presented within the classrooms. The life skills program replaces the half credit currently listed as part of the 3 1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB41 | Pass | In an effort to reduce overdose deaths relating to the growing epidemic of opioid addiction, this Act requires carriers to provide coverage for medically necessary inpatient treatment of alcohol and drug dependencies and prohibits carriers from impos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires Senate confirmation of the 11 members of the SEU Oversight Board. This Act also makes a technical correction to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-22
To Senate Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| SB62 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill aligns requirements for initial licensure for school nurses to the unique role they play in Delaware public schools. It requires school nurses to hold a Bachelors Degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited college or university, maintain a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB20 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment that will limit the ability of the State to appropriate Transportation Trust Fund moneys to a purpose other than (1) capital expenditures on the public transportation system, including the road...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | This legislation promotes transparency and integrity at the highest levels of our democracy, by requiring that all candidates for President and Vice President of the United States file copies of their federal tax returns with the Delaware Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires political committees to report a contributors occupation and employment information. This is already a requirement in federal campaign finance law. If only a contributors name and address are disclosed (without occupation and employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 2 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable |
| SB17 | Pass | This bill provides for research or transplantation of organs and other anatomical gifts as authorized under federal law among donors who have tested positive for exposure to HIV and intended recipients who have also tested positive for exposure to HI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB12 | Pass | This Act explicitly allows ground effect lighting equipment on motorcycles. This extra lighting would increase motorcycle safety by enhancing their visibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
Signed by Governor |
