| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill mandates reporting to the Director of Investor Protection by a broker-dealer or investment adviser that has a reasonable belief that financial exploitation of an eligible adult has occurred or been attempted. It also enables broker-dealers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB78 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act improves the enforcement mechanisms related to Delawares campaign finance disclosure laws in four ways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Amendment HA 1 to HB 78 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HCR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Since its adoption in 2003, the Manufactured Home Owners and Community owners Act has proven to be an effective tool to protect the rights of tenants in manufactured home communities. After 13+ years, a number of issues and concerns have been identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HR12 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates May 5, 2017, as "School Lunch Hero Day" in order to recognize the hardworking school nutrition professionals in this State's school cafeterias and to showcase the difference these professionals make in the liv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Currently Industrial Accident Board hearings are held with 2 members as a panel to decide the matter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Labor Committee |
| HB82 | Pass | Sections 1-4 clarify the type of supervised experience applicants are required to obtain in order to be qualified for licensure and eliminates the requirement that reciprocal applicants be certified by a national organization prior to being qualified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB111 | Pass | This bill changes the number of live music events required for an entity to be a qualified concert hall for purposes of alcohol licensing. Previously a concert hall was required to hold at least 250 live music events per year and be open at least 5 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Signed by Governor |
| HR11 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution extends the due date of the final report of the Task Force to Review and Recommend Noise Control Laws in the State of Delaware from April 30, 2017, to June 30, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB31 | Pass | This bill authorizes the use of prize-linked savings accounts in the State of Delaware. These accounts have been used in a number of countries and several U.S. states to promote savings, especially among persons with low-income and first-time savers....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB155 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the Department of Corrections authority to execute orders as to sentences of capital punishment and prohibits the Department from using lethal doses of drugs on those in its care. This Act also removes hanging as a method of executio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HR10 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Resolution recognizes April 28, 2017, as Workers Memorial Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB149 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the Complete Your Degree Grant Program. Under this program, state funds may be provided to help eligible students who have completed at least 30 credit hours return to school and complete an associate degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
To House Education Committee |
| HCR21 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution designates April 26, 2017, as Engineering and Technology Education Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HCR18 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes the week of April 3-8, 2017 as Auctioneers Week in the State of Delaware, acknowledging the great economic impact and rich history auctioneers have on the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HCR20 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution designates the month of April 2017, as Alcoholism Awareness Month and calls upon Delawareans to break the silence and talk to their family and friends about alcoholism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HCR19 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution recognizes April 2017 as National Donate Life Month and recognizes the generosity of donors and their families. It further encourages all Delawareans to become designated organ, eye, and tissue donors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HB105 | Pass | This Act clarifies that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget has the authority to deposit Special Fund balances into the General Fund as a measure to control agency expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB18 | Pass | This bill clarifies the General Assemblys intent last session in amending the states habitual offender law, specifically (a) that the changes made by the General Assembly were intended to affect minimum mandatory sentences, not sentences where judges...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB19 | Pass | This bill is a follow-up to House Bill No. 432, a change to the Town of Elsmeres charter, passed in the 148th General Assembly. HB432 removed a cap on the amount of indebtedness the Town of Elsmere could incur to meet current expenses. This bill clar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB52 | Pass | Currently, Rockford Falls Partners, LLC owns the majority of the Bancroft Mills site in Wilmington, Delaware. Delawares Division of Parks and Recreation owns a smaller portion of the Bancroft Mills site that the State acquired with the intent of havi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB37 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Smyrna School District to convey to the Town of Smyrna property located in Kent County, and known as the School Administration Building, to be used by the Town for public purposes, including incorporating the building and prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
Signed by Governor |
| HCR25 | Engross
Sine Die | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 6, 2017 as "Wilmington Blue Rocks Day."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HR9 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes April 2017 as Autism Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB128 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a Chapter 60 in Title 11 relating to providing individuals Fair Notice. Specifically, the Act requires individuals considering a plea of guilty in a criminal court of law be provided information related to the collateral consequences...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HR8 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes April 6, 2017 as Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority or AKA Day at the Capitol in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB83 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill clarifies a county government authority to enact and enforce an ordinance affecting an area within a right of way and consistent with state code. Specifically, it enables a county government to enact an ordinance that concerns the maintenan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Tabled in Committee |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires that all public bodies that are subject to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") respond to requests for information from persons who are not residents of Delaware. In doing so, this Act does not chan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Tabled in Committee |
| HB26 | Pass | This act creates a special license plate for veterans of Operation Desert Storm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB58 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill enables the use of roof or ground mounted solar systems on privately owned residential dwellings by making covenants or other restrictions that effectively prohibit or unreasonably restrict the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Defeated By House. Votes: 17 YES 22 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| HCR17 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution recognizes the week of April 3 - 7 as Work Zone Awareness Week in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HCR16 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 4, 2017, as "Equal Pay Day."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill lowers the tax rate by .05%. Also, it creates a new tax bracket at $125,000 with a rate of 7.05%, and an additional bracket at $250,000 with a rate of 7.80%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Stricken in House |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is a first leg of a constitutional amendment that would eliminate from the Delaware Constitution the limitations as to when an individual may vote by absentee ballot. This amendment to the Delaware Constitution provides that the General Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
Reported Out of Committee (House Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits |
| HB74 | Intro
Sine Die | A minor child that is a qualifying patient may need, in addition to their parents, a designated caregiver who is not their parent when the parents work and cannot regularly get to school to administer medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
Tabled in Committee |
| HB36 | Intro
Sine Die | Although minors are prohibited from purchasing tobacco, it is not technically wrong for a minor to possess or consume tobacco. This bill will make the possession, use, or consumption of tobacco by a minor subject to penalties relating to education an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
Tabled in Committee |
| HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | In many circumstances persons who owe child support have received monetary awards in the form of a court settlement, verdict, judgment, or under a workers compensation award. This Bill requires a prevailing litigant to advise his attorney or insuranc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
Tabled in Committee |
| HB29 | Intro
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] | 2017-03-28
Amendment HA 2 to HB 29 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HCR14 | Engross
Sine Die | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes the week of April 9 through 15, 2017, as National Library Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| HR7 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates March 30, 2017 as "Doctors' Day" to recognize the valuable contributions made by physicians in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB32 | Pass | This act amends the Charter of the Town of Laurel to allow for tax abatements for a five year period on all improvements of properties, for all zoned properties, located within the Downtown Development District and establishing the condition that all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Currently the law requires that any person convicted of a crime identified under the section identifying sexual offenses, or offenses relating to children and incompetents must submit to DNA testing. The DNA testing is compiled and stored in the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Tabled in Committee |
| HCR13 | Engross
Sine Die | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 22, 2017, as Rare Disease Day in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| HJR3 | Pass | This Joint Resolution directs the Department of Education to present its plan for compliance with the new federal education law - Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA at a meeting of the education committees of both chambers of the General Assembly pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
Signed by Governor |
| HCR15 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution commends the 2017 Delaware State Teacher of the Year, Wendy Turner, and all of the District Teachers of the Year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HCR12 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution encourages all Delaware departments and agencies to consider citizens with visual impairments when developing, maintaining, procuring, or using electronic information and technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act seeks to ensure that every public school in the State has a school nurse. This Act provides a mechanism to allow a district or a charter school that currently does not have a school nurse to receive state funds. This Act also permits a distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 1 of this Act updates Delawares existing Motor Voter Program to adopt an automatic voter registration process. Currently, when Delawareans apply for, renew, or replace a drivers license or identification card, they must choose to register to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HCR10 | Engross
Sine Die | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 2017 as Eye Donor Month in Delaware and recognizes the 60th anniversary of the Lions Eye Bank of Delaware Valley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HR6 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the week of March 12th through March 18th, 2017, as Sunshine Week in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Under current Delaware law, every adult operating or riding a motorcycle is required to have a helmet in his or her possession while operating or riding a motorcycle and every person up to 19 years of age must wear a helmet. This Act requires that ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
Tabled in Committee |
