| HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Time is money. The time and delay associated with the review of land use projects is often a factor in determining whether a potential employer will come to Delaware. This Act, the Bring New Jobs to Delaware Act, is intended to provide an expedited r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
