| HB442 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act expands the Juvenile Civil Citation Program to provide law enforcement officers with the discretion to refer any first-time juvenile offender engaged in any misdemeanor-level behavior to the civil citation program, where the juvenile can be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill creates a tax exemption for non-profit owned swimming pools in New Castle County and Kent County. Sussex County has no similar exemption statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Amendment HA 2 to HB 416 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB433 | Pass | This Act expands the pathways to entering an alternative routes for teacher licensure and certification program (ARTC) casting a wider net in order to attract a diverse pool of qualified candidates into the field of education as the need for teachers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB477 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides a post-2011 employee who relied on misinformation that the employee would have a vested right to a reduced pension if the employee can prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the employee:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Tabled in Committee |
| HB124 | Engross
Sine Die | Importers, manufacturers and dealers of destructive weapons are licensed and regulated under Federal law. Under existing Delaware law, importers, manufacturers and dealers of destructive weapons are not permitted to deliver them to purchasers in Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 7 NO 2 ABSENT |
| HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | The Delaware Marijuana Control Act regulates and taxes marijuana in the same manner as alcohol. It allows adults over the age of 21 to legally possess and consume under 1 ounce of marijuana for personal use. It does not permit people to grow their ow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Defeated By House. Votes: 21 YES 15 NO 5 NOT VOTING |
| HB405 | Pass | This bill is intended to facilitate the growth and expansion of Delaware licensed craft alcoholic liquor companies within the State by permitting them to ship product manufactured on their licensed premises to entities under common ownership and cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB369 | Pass | This Bill expands the offense of falsifying business records by including the act of altering or modifying and creating false medical records. Currently, no specific statute exists to prevent a person from falsely creating, altering, or modifying a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB222 | Pass | This Substitute Act incorporates House Bill No. 222, and also makes the following changes to House Bill No. 222:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB310 | Pass | The Certification of Adoption of Sustainability and Transparency Standards Act (the Act) establishes a voluntary disclosure regime to foster dialogue around sustainability and responsibility among participating Delaware business entities and their va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB411 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act amends Delaware's existing continuity of government laws as required in conjunction with the adoption of House Bill No. 410, which completes the process to amend Article II, § 5 and Article XVII, § 1 of the Delaware Constitution to ado...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HB410 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment that would alter the continuity of government provisions of the Delaware Constitution to enable the effective continuance of government following a variety of emergency situations. The first le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB71 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill was previously recommended by the Joint Sunset Committee in the 147th General Assembly. The bill adds appointed members of the Cash Management Policy Board to the definition of public officers. This designation would subject the appointed m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB466 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act makes a technical correction to § 7021 of Title 25 so that it is consistent with § 7043 of Title 25. Section 7021 is the original rent increase section. It requires a landlord to provide a minimum 60 days notice of a rent increase and was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| HB481 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes a derogatory term for Italian-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-American immigrants from the Delaware Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | This constitutional amendment removes outdated constitutional language related to voter qualifications. The voting age has been 18 since the 1970's under federal law which superseded state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
Defeated By House. Votes: 26 YES 14 NO 1 ABSENT |
| HB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Unmanned aircraft systems are capable of introducing contraband into detention facilities without undergoing correctional officer inspections. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to introduce contraband into dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| HB235 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill encourages spaying, neutering, and vaccination in order to limit the number of unwanted cats and protect the public from rabies and other diseases carried by unvaccinated animals. The bill defines free-roaming cats and also free-roaming cat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB480 | Intro
Sine Die | This legislation increases access to Delaware's existing community solar program by expanding geographic eligibility requirements of the program. The legislation also ensures 15% of all community solar facilities provide savings to low-to-moderat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-22
To House Energy Committee |
| HB443 | Pass | This Act permits the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to renew or extend the term of a construction permit under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB459 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires insurers to check if an individual owes child support arrears before making a payment to the individual and permits the Division of Child Support Services to attach a lien to an insurance payment awarded pursuant to a settlement or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
Amendment HA 1 to HB 459 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB67 | Intro
Sine Die | As a public school safety measure, this bill requires that any door to a classroom will be equipped with a lock that can be locked from either side of the door. Many doors are currently not capable of locking from the inside. Locking the door(s) to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
Stricken in House |
| HB90 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill establishes in-person early voting for the State of Delaware. Registered voters will be allowed to vote in-person for at least 10 days prior to an election, up to and including the Saturday and Sunday immediately prior to the election at lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB400 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill provides for election day registration for presidential primary, primary, special, and general elections whereas currently the deadline is the fourth Saturday prior to the date of the election. Moreover, same day registration at polling pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB336 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires each public school district to equip the schools within their respective jurisdictions with an adequate number of panic buttons that may be used to immediately alert local law enforcement authorities of a security threat at a school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
Stricken in House |
| HB479 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of upholstered residential furniture and children's products that contain harmful flame retardant chemicals. People who are not in the business of selling these products and nonprofits are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB478 | Intro
Sine Die | This act restores the $500 senior real property tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
To House Administration Committee |
| HB334 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to issue conditional certificates of authority to captive insurance company applicants, which authorizes the captive insurance company applicant to conduct business while the Insurance Commissioner compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Section 1 of this Act allows those licensed as importers to pay tax upon the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers, instead of the tax being due when the alcoholic beverages come to rest in the State of Delaware. Section 2 of this Act provides tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Amendment HA 1 to HB 444 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill ensures that necessary information is provided to the exclusive bargaining representative. This bill further aligns statutory language within Title 19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| HB473 | Intro
Sine Die | This act makes various edits to the existing Medical Marijuana Act, including, but not limited to:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB472 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill removes two out-of-date sections of the Division of Motor Vehicles' code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act reaffirms the Constitutional requirement that the General Assembly appropriate money belonging to the General Fund by making clear that funds received by the State or a State agency from settlements or other final orders or judgments, other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Tabled in Committee |
| HB452 | Intro
Sine Die | In light of the Delaware Supreme Courts decisions in Schadt v. Latchford and Lemos v. Willis, this Act amends the City of Wilmingtons Home Rule Charter to authorize Wilmington City Council to determine the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB453 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends Section 3-304 of the City of Wilmingtons Home Rule Charter to allow the City of Wilmington to determine whether and to what extent its employees are required to be City residents. This Act does not affect residency requirements that e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB450 | Intro
Sine Die | There is a growing body of research regarding the detrimental effects to an individual and to society relating to the collateral consequences of arrests and criminal convictions. To name just a few, a criminal history is a significant barrier to obta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable |
| HB95 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits a person from purchasing, selling, offering for sale, possessing with intent to sell, or importing with intent to sell ivory or rhinoceros horn, except as specified. A violation of this Act or any rule, regulation, or order adopted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Tabled in Committee |
| HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act updates the membership of the Telecommunications Relay Service Advisory Committee to include the groups currently engaged in ensuring telecommunications relay services are provided to Delawareans who need relay services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| HB469 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act authorizes the Department of Transportation to use automated speed enforcement (ASE) systems to enforce speed restrictions within work zones on highways. The purpose of this Act is to increase safety for construction and maintenance workers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB471 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill amends the Administrative Procedures Act extending and shortening certain time periods for parties to act and limits emergency regulations to situations affecting public health or safety. If an agency is found to have unlawfully adopted reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Administration Committee |
| HB468 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates the crime of wrongful use of voter registration information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Administration Committee |
| HB347 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act strengthens the role and responsibilities of the Provider Advisory Board in regard to the implementation and enforcement of The Delaware Child Care Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| HB417 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits a tax rate greater than 50 cents per cigar upon the sale and use of premium cigars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-15
Amendment HA 2 to HB 417 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB49 | Pass | This Act requires all new school construction and schools undergoing major renovations to incorporate the following safety features: a secured vestibule to be used as the primary entrance to screen visitors, installation of ballistic resistant glass ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB463 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act authorizes a pharmacist or pharmacy to decline to dispense a prescription drug or provide a pharmacy service to an insured if the amount reimbursed by an entity subject to the Act is less than the pharmacy acquisition cost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| HB300 | Pass | This bill makes it a crime to sell, transfer, buy, receive or possess a trigger crank or bump-fire device designed to accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle, making such weapon function more like an automatic weapon. A bump stock was us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB377 | Pass | This bill permits a County government to impose and collect a lodging tax of no more than 3 percent on hotel, motel, and tourist home rooms located in the unincorporated areas of the County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB421 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill changes when the interception of certain communications is lawful. Currently, if one party to the communication gives consent to the interception, such interception is lawful. This bill requires that both parties to the communication give p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Amendment HA 1 to HB 421 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB319 | Pass | This legislation creates a benchmark for determining when a treatment or service is no longer experimental or investigational. When Medicare determines that a treatment is safe for its population, commercial insurers in Delaware may no longer deny co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB460 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment reflecting the recommendations of the Advisory Panel to the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) on Potential Fiscal Controls and Budget Smoothing Mechanisms established as p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
