| SB10 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the minimum wage required to be paid in this State by 50 cents a year beginning in 2017 and ending in 2020. After 2020, the minimum wage required to be paid in this State increases based on cost-of-living adjustments under the fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 10 YES 9 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act includes Department of Transportation employees who work on interstate, expressway, arterial, and collector roads in the classification of employees who are eligible to receive hazardous duty pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriation Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | In addition to legislation codifying the recommendations of the Clean Water & Flood Abatement Task Force, other important steps around clean water and clean-water infrastructure should be taken. This bill is intended to promote long-term freshwat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act eliminates the Delaware Compensation Commission in its entirety and makes necessary changes to the Delaware Code as a result.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Executive Committee |
| SB67 | Engross
Sine Die | Tobacco traffickers move black market contraband cigarettes or other tobacco products purchased from low tax states to be sold in higher tax states, facilitated by individuals or through organized groups. The potential financial gain of tobacco smugg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| SB47 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act requires that if a home owner association has made an offer under this section and 2 years have passed since the community owner first provided notice of the decision to sell, transfer, or convey the manufactured home community, the notice a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
Reported Out of Committee (Manufactured Housing) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| SB117 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill allows a pellet gun, airbow, and most other air guns to be possessed and utilized for hunting in Delaware, however, it does not change the classification of airbows and higher powered air rifles as firearms. The bill also does not change th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act restores the Delaware Prescription Drug Payment Assistance Program which was eliminated in the Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act eliminates the Delaware Compensation Commission in its entirety and makes necessary changes to the Delaware Code as a result.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-02
Stricken in Senate |
| SB78 | Pass | This Act enhances penalties for drivers who cause serious physical injury, as defined in § 222 of Title 11, to a vulnerable user, as defined in this Act. For a person to be guilty under this Act, the injured vulnerable user must be lawfully using a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-10-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB61 | Pass | This Act clarifies the authority of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("Committee") to hold over entities unless or until certain conditions are met or modifications are made. This Act also provides the authority for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB109 | Pass | 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] | 2017-09-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB52 | Pass | This Act will allow a retired Delaware attorney to satisfy a mortgage that the attorney paid off while in practice. Currently only attorneys still in active practice are permitted to satisfy mortgages under Section 2120. This limitation can leave no ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB97 | Pass | This bill allows Delaware Department of Transportation authorized vehicles to be able to use the shoulder of the road when responding to emergencies. Department of Transportation staff must respond to emergencies along the road to assist police, fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB35 | Pass | This Act enacts the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact Act ("REPLICA"). With REPLICA, EMS personnel will be able to respond across state borders within the provision of their duties on a short t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB66 | Pass | On June 30, 2016, the Delaware State Senate adopted Senate Resolution No. 19 (S.R. 19), requesting the Delaware Department of Insurance (the Department) to examine the secondary market for life insurance policies and make recommendations for possible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB105 | Pass | Persons under age 18 must wear a helmet when operating or riding as a passenger on a bicycle, motorized skateboard or scooter, all terrain vehicle (ATV), off-highway vehicle (OHV), or electric personal assistive mobility device (EPAMD). See Title 21 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB46 | Pass | This legislation modernizes Delaware's Self-Service Storage Facility Act to account for the wide proliferation of online news and auction sites, as well as to establish frameworks for: (1) towing of certain property for which rent and other charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB122 | Pass | This Act fulfills recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Overview and Sunset Committee (JLOSC) by making amendments to the State Human Relations Commissions (the Commission) governing statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB43 | Pass | This Act regulates the practice of art therapy placing control of the profession under the Board of Mental health and Chemical Dependency Professionals and amending Chapter 30 of Title 24 by adding Subchapter V. Professional Art Therapists. The Art T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-08
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB75 | Pass | This Act updates Delaware's human trafficking crime to prohibit the same acts that are included in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB73 | Pass | This Act provides clearer language concerning license requirements, gives licensees a much clearer understanding of prohibited acts, discipline and penalties; and grants the ability of the Professional Licensing Section to promulgate regulations, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB107 | Pass | This bill requires the Division of Public Health and the Department of Education to collaborate with local school districts to find ways to help improve the indoor environment in schools. The bill also requires the Division of Public Health to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB55 | Pass | This Act provides greater clarity of language, condenses duplicative statutes and deletes statues that are irrelevant to daily operations of the Professional Licensing Sections regulation of private security, private investigative and armored car age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | This bill removes the requirement that the Governor must declare a State of Emergency before issuing a Level 1 Driving Warning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB69 | Pass | Section 1. Sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 36 of this Act amend Sections 151(f), 202(a), 219(a), 219(c), 224, 232(c) and 364 of Title 8, respectively. Amendments to Sections 219, 224 and 232 and related provisions are intended to provide specific stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB72 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB71 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB83 | Pass | This bill amends the provisions related to board member compensation under Titles 24 and 28 consistent with a recent amendment to the Delaware Constitution raising the maximum compensation per calendar year from five hundred dollars per year to 1500 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB39 | Pass | This Act is the result of the recommendation made by the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee in its review of the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline ("the Board") that the Division of Professional Regulation amend applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
