| HB417 | Pass | In cases where the Family Court finds that there are sufficient grounds to order the removal of a child from their home and the Family Court orders custody of the child to the Division of Family Service (DFS), DFS often partners with law enforcement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB61 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for Combat Veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB429 | Pass | This Act adds a guaranteed asset protection waiver to the instruments that are exempt from insurance regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB264 | Pass | This Act permits a person who has been the victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration to apply for a sexual violence protective order if the person has a reasonable fear, based on specific conduct occurring contempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB311 | Pass | This Act clarifies the scope and protections for individuals with disabilities under the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law (DEAL) and further aligns definitions and scope of DEAL with federal law protecting individuals with disabilities from discrimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB462 | Pass | This Act permits multidisciplinary team members to share information freely amongst themselves to better protect the welfare of abused children in the State of Delaware. This Act also establishes a framework for parties in Family Court civil proceedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB419 | Pass | Citing the increasing number of false confessions recorded by the National Registry of Exonerations and recent science around adolescent brain development, several states across the nation have passed legislation to ban the use of deceptive interroga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB474 | Pass | Under current Chapter 27 of Title 10 the Board of Examiners of Constables is charged with appointing constables and certifying their commissions as well as monitoring their training and in-service. Currently, there is no member on the Board who acts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB299 | Pass | This Act prohibits the seller of consumer goods or services from refusing to accept cash payment, except in limited circumstances. Sales covered by this Act are those made at a retail store through an in-person transaction. The Act does not apply to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB382 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislature Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Division for the Visually Impaired ("DVI") and represents the collaboration of several state agencies and other stakeholder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB402 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Milford by allowing the City to adopt the assessments of real property conducted by Kent and Sussex County. Also, it states that if the value was obtained from either of the two counties, such information wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-07
Signed by Governor |
| HB244 | Pass | Recognizing the negative impact of criminal justice imposed financial obligations on defendants has led to reforms across the country to reduce the financial burdens that disproportionally impact the poor. This type of debt and the collateral consequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB399 | Pass | All human laboratory testing is regulated under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). CLIA-waived tests are simple laboratory examinations and procedures that have an insignificant risk of an erroneous result. Common CLIA-wai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB463 | Pass | This Act allows both of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-10-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB404 | Pass | The Delaware Fair Chance Licensing Act provides that it is the policy of this State to allow entry to professions and occupations with licensing requirements for individuals with a criminal history to the maximum extent consistent with public safety....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB359 | Pass | This Act adds victims of human trafficking to the Address Confidentiality Act. Under this program, certain crime victims are provided a substitute address by the Department of Justice so as to protect the participants actual address from public discl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB430 | Pass | This Act creates a statewide Grow Your Own Educator Program to improve recruitment, retention, and diversity of educators in Delaware public schools. The Program establishes a competitive grant process to be administered by the Department of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB479 | Pass | This Act increases the civil penalty for violating the parking regulations in § 4180 from not less than $10 nor more than $25 to not less than $100 nor more than $500. This Act also increases the minimum fine for violating the requirements of Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB456 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Dover, including by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB388 | Pass | This act authorizes the application of funds from the Delaware School Safety and Security Fund, which is subject to available appropriations, for the retention of constables to be utilized by the LEAs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB375 | Pass | This Act establishes the Racial Equity Consortium (Consortium) for the purposes of studying and making recommendations to address the disparities and inequities faced by persons of color in this State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB447 | Pass | This Act implements some of the recommendations of the African American Task Force's Safety and Justice Subcommittee. Specifically, it requires that cases or charges that are more than 7 years old be treated as resolved in favor of a child or adu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB304 | Pass | This Act recognizes advancements in the science of reading and literacy instruction by requiring that all public school students in kindergarten through grade 3 participate in a universal reading screening 3 times each year to identify potential read...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| HB480 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Code relating to financial assistance for education in order to promote and support the states high demand career fields and reduce student debt for Delaware residents. The Act clarifies the Delaware Higher Education Offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB428 | Pass | All too often, persons who produce or transmit images of partially nude children cannot be prosecuted under our current statutes because our current statutes only criminalize images of a child engaging in a sexual act or if the child is nude. This bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB442 | Pass | Delawares per capita health care spending consistently ranks in the top ten highest spending states and has historically outpaced economic growth in Delaware. Enhanced transparency and shared accountability for spending and quality targets have been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB277 | Pass | This Act codifies the principle set forth in Doe v. Bicking, 2020 Del. Super. LEXIS 43, *32, 2020 WL 374677 (Del. Super. Jan. 22, 2020) that recognizes that in cases of childhood sexual abuse by an employee of a school, organization, or business that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-19
Signed by Governor |
| HB205 | Pass | This Act establishes the Delaware Expanding Access for Retirement and Necessary Saving (EARNS) program to serve as a vehicle through which eligible employees may, on a voluntary basis, provide for additional retirement security through a State-facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| HB481 | Pass | This Act will amend the Delaware Code relating to the powers of the Delaware Higher Education Office and the state authorization of private postsecondary institutions. The intent of the Act is to increase consumer protections for students enrolled in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB315 | Pass | This bill provides unit funding for full time employees who shall be hired to provide permanent substitute teaching support in Delaware schools. The bill also provides professional development requirements for those hired into these positions and cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB309 | Pass | This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB440 | Pass | This bill changes the definition of and class of felony for the crime of Strangulation from a class C felony to a Class D felony unless additional factors are present, then the crime elevates to a class B felony, punishable from 2-25 years in jail. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB441 | Pass | This Act provides an alternative means for an educator to demonstrate competency and achieve a standard certificate beyond simply passing a content exam, such as the Praxis II. For those who are within 2 standard errors of measurement of the passing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB77 | Pass | This Act prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of children's products, upholstered furniture used in residences, and mattresses that contain harmful flame retardant chemicals. These flame retardants have been found to cause cancer, par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB446 | Pass | The Kent County Levy Court sets equal compensation for the members and chairpersons of all Kent County boards and commissions in the annual operating budget ordinance. Currently all members of the other boards and commissions are compensated at a rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB398 | Pass | This Act renames the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council as the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council (Council) for the purpose of providing a clearer description of the work that the Council performs. This Act also transfers the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB254 | Pass | This Act requires all public schools that serve pupils in grades 7-12 that issue pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the telephone or text numbers for the National Suicide Prevention and National Domestic Violence H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| HB300 | Pass | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware middle schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2023, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 6-8 for a full-time school counselor, scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB301 | Pass | A 2017 survey of Delaware high school students found that during the 12 months before the survey the following occurred:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB303 | Pass | This bill amends Chapter 33, Title 18 of the Delaware Code by adding a new § 3370E to require coverage of an annual behavioral health well check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| HB193 | Pass | This bill seeks to provide the State Fire Commission with the authority to hear and resolve disputes filed by members of the public or fire companies with respect to firefighting activities by individual firefighters and fire companies. The Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB407 | Pass | This Act confers upon the Town Manager of the Town of Frederica the powers and authority conferred upon the Receiver of Taxes and County Treasurer for Kent County as set forth in Del.C. 87 specifically permitting the Town Manager to sell delinquent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB391 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Millville.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB350 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for Suicide Prevention, Awareness, and Support in honor of Jason Staley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB422 | Pass | This Act amends Section 3-304 of the City of Wilmingtons 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 for City Counc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB365 | Pass | This bill establishes the pilotage rates for the Pilots Association for the Bay and River Delaware for 2023, 2024, and 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB342 | Pass | Delaware law already prohibits the use of restraints on women who are giving birth or in labor except in limited circumstances. This Act expands that protection to include women in the second or third trimester of pregnancy and those in the 13-week i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB345 | Pass | This Act ensures pregnant women and women who have given birth within the past six weeks who are subject to the custody of the Department of Corrections at Level IV or V have access to midwifery and doula services by requiring the Department to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB344 | Pass | This substitute bill places responsibility for development of bias and cultural competency training for healthcare employees in a subcommittee of the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative. The subcommittee will develop training guidelines designed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB343 | Pass | This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-25
Signed by Governor |
