| HB326 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill would allow two Microbreweries to share brewing equipment and maintain their separate premises to sell their product to consumers and/or wholesalers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB317 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act classifies pesticides containing a neonicotinoid as a restricted use pesticide and prohibits the use of a pesticide containing a neonicotinoid on land owned or maintained by the State. Neonicotinoids have been linked to impaired memory, move...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB325 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adds nationally certified occupational therapists to the list of employees entitled to receive a salary supplement for receiving national certification and makes technical changes to the section consistent with the Delaware Legislative Draf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Education Committee |
| HB324 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides all law-enforcement officers the authority to enforce the existing labeling requirements for dumpsters that are in a public road or parking lot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB322 | Intro
Sine Die | In 1994 the 137th General Assembly created the crime of Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony. In the intervening decades, the length of the minimum required sentence of 3 years and 5 years for defendants with 2 prior felonies has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB327 | Intro
Sine Die | Transporters of mobile homes must have a hauling permit under Title 21, Chapter 45 to transport mobile homes on public roadways. This bill eliminates the need to also obtain a temporary registration to transport the mobile home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act allows the owner of a vehicle which has a check engine light illuminated to be able to pass the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) On-board Diagnostic (OBD) test emission inspection if a Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Contro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB328 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits multiple service charges for residential trash collection service. However, under this Act, specific charges are allowed for the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | This Joint Resolution directs the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to report to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Controller General, Governor, and Director of the Office of Management and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB319 | Intro
Sine Die | A placard must be prominently displayed at all entrances of massage and bodywork establishments that have failed to obtain a valid license or have a license that is suspended, revoked, or expired. This bill provides that no placard can be removed unl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| HB321 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act eliminates the state's portion of the realty transfer tax for closings for first time home buyers with a purchase price of $250,000 or less. The bill applies to a home buyer whose gross income is less than $45,000 or in the case of natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB251 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill clarifies that the definition of employees who receive gratuities also includes employees that receive tips, that these employees earn more than 50% of their income from tips or gratuities. This bill clarifies that employers may continue to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Current Delaware regulations provide that transportation benefits must be provided for students in grades K through 6 who live 1 or more miles from the schools to which district administrators would normally assign them. In grades 7 through 12, the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Amendment HA 2 to HB 283 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act implements recommendations of the Interagency Pharmaceuticals Purchasing Study Group created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill defines and regulates electric bicycles. Section 1 adds electric bicycles to the definitions contained in Title 21. Section 2 includes electric bicycle operators and passengers as vulnerable users when on a highway, crosswalk, road shoulder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends the Clean Indoor Air Act to allow cigar lounges. No one under the age of 21 years may enter a cigar lounge and a cigar lounge may not share indoor common space with other businesses unless there is a separate ventilation system that d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB302 | Intro
Sine Die | In 2009, New Hampshire was the first state to develop a statewide Gun Shop Project, reaching out to gun shops regarding the role they can play in suicide prevention. In the years since, at least 21 other states have implemented similar campaigns. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB314 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill requires that any general salary increase or one-time adjustments payable to public school employees likewise be payable to charter school employees. The bill also makes section 504A, Title 14 of the Delaware Code consistent with the Legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB309 | Intro
Sine Die | The constitutional requirement to create new legislative districts following the U.S. Census was intended to ensure equal representation at all levels of government. However, Delawares current process of redistricting is deeply flawed. It allows the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Administration Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Most commonly, persons accused of subsection (a) of this section panhandling are homeless. Transferring such matters to the Court of Common Pleas allows persons so accused increased access to social services not available to them at the Justice of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Amendment HA 1 to HB 294 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB315 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a tax credit applicable to personal income taxes in an amount equal to incurred motor vehicle document fees for certain lower income, working poor, individuals. This tax credit is designed to assist the working poor in obtaining a ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB305 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB316 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a $250 tax credit applicable to individual personal income taxes for certain lower income, working poor, individuals. In the case of spouses filing a joint return, the tax credit is $500. If spouses file their Delaware taxes separate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB307 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill amends Chapter 33, Title 18 of the Delaware Code by adding a new § 3370D to require coverage of an annual behavioral health well check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Administration Committee |
| HB298 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act revises the appointment process for members of the Common Interest Community Advisory Council who are from the Real Property Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. Under this Act, these members are appointed by a government official ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes employment practices for call centers, including:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Labor Committee |
| HB299 | Intro
Sine Die | This act will be known as the Egregious Crimes Accountability Act. This Act revises Delaware's death penalty statute to ensure its compliance with the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United State Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB306 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes a Behavioral Health Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work behavioral health professionals, such as, school counselors, social w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Administration Committee |
| HB312 | Intro
Sine Die | This legislation closes several loopholes that dealers have been using to get around suspended or revoked dealership licenses. Currently the Division of Motor Vehicles will suspend or revoke a dealer license, and the dealer will get a family member o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill extends the amount of years an identification card is valid from four (4) to eight (8) years. This bill is necessary for the Division of Motor Vehicles to maintain consistent business processes. The driver license is currently valid for eig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the seller of consumer goods or services from refusing to accept cash payment, except in limited circumstances. It creates graduated civil penalties for violations and provides consumers a private right of action to recover double ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB313 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act revises the requirements for the shape of a Complete Community Enterprise Districts (District) to maximize the use of transit, walking, and bicycling by residents and employees. Specifically, this Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| SB207 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the import, export, sale, transport, distribution, or propagation of any plant identified by the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, with the advice of the Delaware Native Species Commission, as an invasive plant. This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB139 | Pass | In an effort to ensure the safety and wellbeing of dogs, this legislation improves shelter and tether standards in hazardous weather conditions, including clarifying restrictions on outdoor housing and tethering for dogs during hazardous weather cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits a seller from refusing to accept cash from a consumer making an in-person purchase of a good or service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| HB275 | Pass | This bill permits the owner of a beer garden or food establishment to permit leashed dogs on licensed outdoor patios of food establishments and in beer gardens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Signed by Governor |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | On November 3, 2015, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report titled "Elevated Rates of Urban Firearm Violence and Opportunities for Prevention Wilmington, Delaware" in which the CDC made 2 majo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| HB285 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill requires all public and charter schools which have students in grades 6-12 to provide free feminine hygiene products in 50% of the bathrooms used by students who can have a menstrual cycle. This bill also requires schools to publish on its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB152 | Pass | In 2014, the General Assembly created an ignition interlock device program under §§ 4177C and 4177G of Title 21 of the Delaware Code (IID program). The IID program provides individuals whose license or driving privileges have been revoked following...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB195 | Pass | This Act revises the Charter of Greenwood as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB212 | Pass | This bill defines industrial landfill in conformity with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Controls Regulations Governing Solid Waste. This bill also establishes a height restriction, or vertical limit, for an industrial landfill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB264 | Pass | This Act represents one of the recommendations of the Local Service Functions Task Force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 54. This Act revises the process by which the New Castle County tax rate for owners of real property in municipalities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
Signed by Governor |
| SCR72 | Intro
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution requests the United States Congress propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to make clear that Congress and the states have the power and authority to regulate and limit the amounts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB280 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB273 | Pass | This Act makes changes to the States budget and fiscal procedures. Specifically:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB250 | Pass | This Act is a recommendation of the Jurisdiction Improvement Committee established by the Delaware Supreme Court Order of November 7, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB87 | Pass | This Act enables Kent County to establish regulations regarding property maintenance and penalties for violations of said regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB178 | Pass | This Act reconciles discrepancies between § 8705 of Title 9 of the Delaware Code and § 2903 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code, clarifying that all taxes assessed against real estate by Kent or Sussex Counties are governed by § 8705 of Title 9 and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB177 | Pass | This amendment brings into conformity the provisions of Title 21 with those of Title 14 relating to the revocation of a students driving privileges when he or she is expelled from a public school. Prior amendments to Title 14, Section 4130 and Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| HJR9 | Pass | This Joint Resolution vacates the parkland dedication for Tax Parcel No. 19-009.00-011 ("the Property"), removing the restrictions on permitted uses for public parks, held in public trust as provided in the common law, including the restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
