| SJR2 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB240 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2021 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill adds God's Way Ministries Inc. to the list of not-for-profit organizations exempt from real property taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB194 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act removes the requirement that applicants for a marriage license state their race as part of the application process. Delaware is one of a small number of states that currently requires this information. In October 2019, the United States Dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| HB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Delaware received significant funding from the federal government under the CARES Act to address economic harm caused by the Covid-19 public health emergency. This Act recognizes the undue economic harm small businesses faced during the State of Emer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To House Administration Committee |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is intended to make it easier for businesses and homeowner associations to open their doors and their community facilities without fear of facing frivolous negligence lawsuits from customers, patrons or facility users.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To House Administration Committee |
| SB191 | Enroll
Sine Die | Since the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, with Delaware ratifying it in 1901, at least 15 states have added a provision to their state constitution that prohibits the denial or abridgement of equal rights...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| SB239 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill extends the effective date of the Delaware Contractor Registration Act to July 1, 2021, or upon promulgation of final regulations. The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic facing Delaware and the nation necessitates moving the impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| SB245 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act amends the Real Estate Code to modernize the definition of purchase money mortgage under Delaware law to include lenders other than the seller of the mortgaged property who provide financing to purchase the property. Additionally, this Act e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| SB237 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act delays to October 1, 2020, the expansion of dental care to all eligible adult Medicaid recipients provided for under Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 92 (150th General Assembly), Chapter 187 of Volume 82 of the Laws of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| HB229 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act increases the non-refundable income tax credit from $400 to $500 for active members of Delaware volunteer fire, ambulance, or rescue service company or its auxiliary. This Act also makes technical changes to conform existing law to the stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 9 NOT VOTING |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act ensures that the consumer protections for Delawareans related to summary possession and tenants holding over in rental units put in place during the COVID-19 state of emergency do not cease immediately on the lifting of the COVID-19 state of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 48 enacted a requirement that contractors bidding for large public works contracts provide craft training of apprentices and journeymen. This Act expands how contractors can satisfy this craft training requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Laid On Table in Senate |
| HB301 | Pass | This Act repeals a provision in the State Employees Pension Plan that included participants in the Division for the Visually Impaireds (DVI) Business Enterprise Program (BEP) in the State pension plan. BEP participants are meant to be independent bli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB254 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act ensures that the consumer protections for Delawareans related to residential mortgage foreclosure put in place during the COVID-19 state of emergency do not cease immediately upon the lifting of the COVID-19 state of emergency, but instead c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-20
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Juneteenth National Freedom Day commemorates June 19, 1865, the date news finally reached African Americans in Galveston, Texas that Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves living in Confederate states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-20
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | In 48 states, the presidential candidate winning the majority of the popular vote is awarded that states total electoral votes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Administration Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill amends Title 11 to require that custodial interrogations of children, at a place of detention, by a law enforcement officer, be electronically recorded. The Bill requires the law enforcement officer to prepare a written explanation if the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires transparency in the use of risk assessment instruments and requires empirical data that the instrument does not increase or magnify bias against any protected class.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB337 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act mandates that the Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to establish Maximum Contaminant Levels for specific contaminants found in drinking water in this st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
Amendment HA 1 to HB 337 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Over 80% of pharmaceuticals in the United States are purchased through pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) networks. PBMs serve as intermediaries between health plans, pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacies, and PBMs establish networks for consumers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB338 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act promotes the expansion of licensure opportunities in Delaware while maintaining standards of competence and professionalism required for the protection of the citizens of Delaware. The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Survey...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Title 3 and Title 7 do not currently define the term farm and Title 3 does not currently define the term farm operations. This Act defines farm and farming operations for the purposes of Title 3 and Title 7. This Act amends the definition of farm ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act limits the use of certain Class B firefighting foams (Class B foams) in Delaware. Class B foams are used to put out fires caused by flammable liquids like gasoline, oil, and jet fuel, and can be divided into 2 categories: those with PFAS che...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines yard waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends the Delaware Viatical Settlements Act by permanently removing the bond requirements for viatical settlement brokers and updating a reference to life settlement brokers by replacing it with viatical settlement brokers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Under current law, only a premises that qualifies as a restaurant or is operated by a not-for-profit group may allow customers to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends the Delaware Energy Act to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in the State by creating more accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Specifically, this Act permits State Agencies to charge a reasonable fee for use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2018, the General Assembly enacted House Bill No. 204 of the 149th General Assembly, Chapter 200, Volume 81 of the Laws of Delaware, ("HB 204"), with "the goal of modernizing the pretrial process, reducing reliance on monetary condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB216 | Intro
Sine Die | In almost every mass murder that has occurred in the United States over the past 2 decades, subsequent investigations have revealed that the perpetrator had displayed what have become known as red flag indicators which, if known, identified, and repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a special license plate for those citizens who wish to support pollinator habitat creation and conservation. This Act requires a greater-than-majority vote for passage because Article VIII, § 11 of the Delaware Constitution requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that repeals the provisions regarding legislative districts that were found unconstitutional in the 1960s by the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States District Court for the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that an employer is liable to an employee for liquidated damages if the employer does not make wages available during the next payday after an employee quits, resigns, is discharged, suspended, or laid off. The only difference betw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill institutes a State nontidal wetlands program and leaves intact the current State tidal wetlands program under Chapter 66 of Title 7. Prior to these amendments, the only regulatory protection of the State's nontidal wetlands was through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Amendment SA 1 to SB 233 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB336 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill creates the Public Employee Sexual Violence Act which allows public employees who have suffered sexual violence in the workplace the ability to file an action against the perpetrator and the employee even if the applicable statute of limita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Delawares Constitution does not currently require the Governor to inform the General Assembly in advance of issuing extensions to State of Emergency Orders or any executive order extending, amending, guiding or modifying a State of Emergency Order. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-29
To House Administration Committee |
| HCR83 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution proclaims June 25th, 2020 as Korean War Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-29
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| HCR85 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution accepts and approves the May 14, 2020, actions of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (President Pro Tempore) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Speaker), declares an emergency under § 5, Article II and Â...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 NO |
| HCR82 | Intro
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the class of 2020s challenge faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Education Committee |
| HB332 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes obsolete language. Sheriffs are not equipped to safely transport prisoners and no sheriff has done so in nearly 10 years. This Act also makes a technical correction to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB333 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the broad exemption in the Freedom of Information Act for the University of Delaware and Delaware State University and creates the following specific exemptions for some records of public institutions:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Administration Committee |
| HB202 | Pass | This bill creates a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to utilize external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that illegally pass school buses and to punish these motorists by issuing them a civil penalty. The purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB330 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill limits the Governor's authority to continue a state of emergency by requiring the General Assembly to adopt and set the time period for continuing the state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-24
To House Administration Committee |
| HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Individuals who are at very high risk of getting HIV can take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. PrEP medication reduces the risk of HIV transmission by up to 99% if taken daily. This Act prohibits disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-17
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| SB96 | Pass | In January of 2015, the Office of Civil Rights & Public Trust was created by the Attorney General to establish a centralized office within the Department of Justice for the investigation of matters concerning civil rights enforcement and the pros...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Signed by Governor |
| HCR81 | Intro
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolutions authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to expand regional rail connections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-03
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB238 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act permits a school district to conduct on the last day of January an optional unit count of pupils who enrolled after the actual unit count was conducted and certified by the Department of Education. A school district will qualify for one-half...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB184 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act clarifies Delawares driving under the influence (DUI) law related to intensive inpatient or outpatient drug and alcohol treatment for felony DUI offenders. The current law has resulted in differing interpretations regarding treatment; specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Amendment HA 1 to SB 184 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB175 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act allows any qualified voter evidencing a desire to vote by mail in writing to the State Elections Commission to vote by mail in primary, general, and special federal elections. The State Elections Commission shall administer the program, crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Amendment HA 3 to HB 175 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
