| HB189 | Pass | The Advanced Wireless Infrastructure Investment Act creates a new Chapter 16 of Title 17 that will accelerate investment in mobile broadband infrastructure and ready the State for the next wave of economic development in the digital economy. In recog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB81 | Pass | This legislation revises § 5006 of the Insurance Code to track the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Holding Company Act with respect to the Commissioners power to examine insurers and have access to books and records of insurers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB77 | Pass | As a result of the passage of the in Inland Bays Aquaculture Act, numerous ongoing concerns have been raised during subsequent public meetings and a public hearing. As a result of those meetings, the Secretary's Order No. 2016-W-0049 reduced the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB154 | Pass | Currently, claims that arise at the death of the decedent are treated the same as claims that arise after the decedent's death. This bill changes how claims that arise at the time of decedent's death are treated by including them in the same ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB212 | Pass | This Act amends the Clayton Charter to provide more time between the deadline for filing requirements and Election Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB123 | Pass | This Act allows motor vehicles with a registered gross weight of 5,000 pounds or less to be assigned any type of number plate and motor vehicles with a registered gross weight of greater than 5000 pounds but less than 10000 pounds may be assigned any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB87 | Pass | This bill enhances Delaware's attractiveness as a captive insurance domicile by creating a streamlined and inexpensive regulatory regime for captive insurance companies that are dormant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB32 | Pass | This Act establishes a procedure by which a mortgagee that changes its notice address from the notice address as provided in any mortgage or assignment of mortgage may, at its option, provide public notice of its new notice address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB70 | Pass | Under current educational standards, students are no longer required to be taught cursive writing and many schools have abandoned teaching cursive writing to students. As cursive writing is still an imperative skill in many professions, this bill mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB86 | Pass | This bill corrects an unintended consequence of House Bill No. 15 of the 148th General Assembly, signed into law by the Governor on June 24, 2015, by preventing double taxation of premium ceded to a series captive insurance company or protected cell....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB200 | Pass | This bill sets a minimum reimbursement rate for home health care nursing services paid for by Medicaid-contracted organizations. The rate shall be at least equal to the rate set by the Division of Medicaid for equivalent services. Home care nurses an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB178 | Pass | The children of parents who divorce or were never married often share a surname with only one parent, which may lead to confusion or hardship when schools, doctors, or others fail to recognize the childs connection with the parent with whom the child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB191 | Pass | This act amends the Charter of the Town of Laurel so that the Mayor and members of the Town Council are only paid for meetings which they attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB183 | Pass | This Act clarifies that the reviews of child and maternal deaths are confidential and may not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Death Review Commission are protected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB206 | Pass | This Act allows the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a conditional license at the request of the Justice of the Peace for a Driving Under the Influence offender whose charge is still pending, but whose license has been suspended by the Division of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB98 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Georgetown by establishing that registration of voters for municipal elections shall be administered and conducted by agreement with and pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Department of Elections for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB216 | Pass | This amendment to Section 8-200 of the Charter of the City of Wilmington raises some of the threshold amounts for bid requirements in the procurement process. The purpose of the amendment is to improve City of Wilmington procurement procedures, incre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB99 | Pass | This legislation eliminates front footage calculations as the sole method of collecting sewer assessments for county sewer users. It provides a broad list of possible methods of determining the amount of the sewer assessment for each property, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB68 | Pass | The primary purpose of this bill is to provide for an increase in fees collected with annual hazardous chemical inventory reports submitted by facilities. The bill also makes certain technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB224 | Pass | Car theft was the primary impetus behind state codes prohibiting a motor vehicle owner to leave a car unattended with the keys in the ignition; a common habit to warm-up the vehicle during colder months. From 2013 to 2015, a total of 206 cars were st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB38 | Pass | For purposes of clarity regarding Delaware's commitment to supporting Delawareans with disabilities, including military service-related disabilities, this Act codifies existing county-level tax exemptions. Absent this Act, Delaware will continue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB43 | Pass | This bill clarifies that a Department of Correction's employee who has served for 25 years with at least 20 years as a correction officer is eligible to retire at 25 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB96 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter for the City of Lewes to make residents who are not property owners or leaseholders in the City or in an area to be annexed ineligible to vote in a special annexation election. This Act also creates a new Section 40, provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB108 | Pass | SB 164 of the 148th General Assembly created a special license plate for professional paramedics and retired professional paramedics. This Act provides an additional officer, at the county level, to verify an applicant's eligibility for this spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB82 | Pass | This Act amends the Milford City Charter. The changes are comprehensive in nature and designed to amend and revise many of the outdated provisions dating back to the Act reincorporating the City of Milford in 1970. Many of the changes are technical i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB182 | Pass | This bill clarifies that the reviews of child abuse and neglect deaths and near deaths are confidential and should not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Protection Accountabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB181 | Pass | This Act makes updates to how reports of child abuse and neglect are handled by the various members of the multidisciplinary team. The Act codifies the multidisciplinary team and case. The Act adds additional duties to the Investigation Coordinator, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB169 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act (i) clarifies that the defined term agents, as used in chapter 33 of title 12, consistent with common usage of the term, includes all agents defined as such by the general law of agency; (ii) modifies section 3312 to provide that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB252 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act enhances the States ability to collect delinquent taxes by (a) allowing for renewal of a judgment for unpaid taxes beyond the current 20 year limit for an additional term of 20 years, and (b) allows for recording of a judgment f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HJR8 | Pass | This Joint Resolution creates an Advisory Panel to the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) that is tasked with developing a report concerning the States historic budgeting practices, the need for reasonable restrictions on the us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB93 | Pass | This bill allows holders of gill net and hook and line permits to accept transfer of quotas from other commercial fishermen and catch the combined hook and line and gill net quota for striped bass using the equipment for which they hold a permit. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB56 | Pass | This bill implements a portion of the federal requirements in the bipartisan Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act to promote greater normalcy for youth in foster care. Specifically, it provides a limitation from liability provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB180 | Pass | This Act revises HB 180 to reflect input from a wide group of stakeholders. This Substitute Act differs from HB 180 as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB42 | Pass | This Act permits individuals to add their resident minor child and foster child to their existing motor vehicle insurance policies as additional drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB111 | Pass | This bill establishes the Behavioral Health Consortium that will provide oversight and coordination of the States private and public bodies to address behavioral health issues in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB220 | Pass | This act establishes the Addiction Action Committee as a means to establish a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to address addiction in Delaware. The committee is authorized to make recommendations on a comprehensive approach to address and monitor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB106 | Pass | This Act creates a special license plate for members of the Delaware Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| SB3 | Pass | This Act replaces the stillbirth certificate with a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth, clarifies what documentation is required upon the occurrence of a stillbirth, and makes technical corrections to the Vital Statistics laws to accurately...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB214 | Pass | This bill amends merit compensation bargaining unit by allowing non-uniformed correctional employees, including correctional counselors, correctional administrative staff and similar occupations, to bargain over compensation. These correctional emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB257 | Pass | This bill increases the line of duty death benefits from $150,000 to $200,000 for those persons covered under Chapter 66, Title 18 of the Delaware Code. Additionally, the bill increases the maximum amount payable in any year from $30,000 to $40,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB102 | Pass | This Act consolidates Delaware law related to child abuse and child sexual abuse training and detection, suicide prevention, bullying, criminal youth gang detection, and teen dating violence and sexual assault into one subchapter of Chapter 41, Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB138 | Pass | This bill replaces the National Change of Address process with another non-discriminatory process of cancelling the registrations of persons who are no longer permanent residents of Delaware. It also gives the Department of Elections, instead of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB137 | Pass | This bill eliminates the conflict between Section 2047, which requires a voter to vote at the polling place where he or she currently resides, and Section 4941, which enables a voter to vote where he or she formerly resided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB133 | Pass | This bill would create an end date for the special filing deadline created by school board vacancies that arise after the second Friday in February. The new end date for these vacancies would be the first Friday in March. Any vacancies that arise aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB139 | Pass | This bill allows the election cycle regarding contributions from political parties and political action committees to reset after the Primary Election as it does for other contributors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB168 | Pass | This bill eliminates the outdated provisions relating to mobile registration while maintaining the right of any person to register to vote at any county office of the Department of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB190 | Pass | This Act, which shall be known as the Coastal Zone Conversion Permit Act, makes changes to the Coastal Zone Act (CZA), which has not been significantly updated since its enactment almost a half century ago. The CZA, enacted in 1971, has enabled Delaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB110 | Pass | This Act removes the Colonel of the New Castle County Police Department from the Delaware Emergency Medical Services Oversight Council ("DEMSOC") and replaces the Colonel with the Chief of the New Castle County Emergency Medical Services. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| HB229 | Pass | This bill concerns sick leave payout for retired State Troopers who became reemployed in public education. Specifically, this bill adds language to the code that would treat retired State Troopers the same as other educational employees as it relates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| SB40 | Pass | This legislation adopts the NAICs Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Model Act, and requires Delaware-domiciled insurers to provide to the Commissioner on an annual basis a summary of the insurers or insurance groups corporate governance structur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
