| HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act increases the Senior Real Property Tax credit to $750 from $400 as authorized in the Appropriations Bill for fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, which effectively amended Title 29, § 6102(q)(3) from $500 to $400.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
To House Administration Committee |
| HCR45 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution provides for a Joint Session of the House of Representatives and the Senate to be convened for the purpose of hearing an address by the Honorable John C. Carney, Governor of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SCR66 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution remembers and recognizes the life and service of former Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SCR64 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes January 9, 2022, as "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SCR65 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership, achievements, and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and urges all citizens of the First State to participate fittingly in the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| SCR63 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution requests an advisory opinion of the Justices of the Delaware Supreme Court regarding the proper construction of § 13 of Article III of the Delaware Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HCR43 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes January 2022 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill adopts a key recommendation of the Child Protection Accountability Commission Caseloads and Workloads final report approved on November 20, 2019 that child protection treatment caseload standards be reduced from 18 to 12 families per worker...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR23 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution honors the life and legacy of former Delaware State Senator Robert L. Venables, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-11
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB278 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires personal income tax brackets to be annually adjusted for cost-of-living increases. This will prevent tax increases due to "bracket creep" caused by cost-of-living raises given to workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-06
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a school district or charter school serving high school students to provide instruction in comparative political ideology in grade 10. The instruction must include a comparative discussion of political ideologies, including communis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act in two ways. First, it expands the jurisdictional application of the Act to employers with less than 100 employees and as few as 10. Second, it requires the Board either to issue written d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-16
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB112 | Pass | This Act expands eligibility for mandatory expungement of adult and juvenile cases by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| HB243 | Pass | This bill prohibits law-enforcement agencies from releasing or publishing or causing to be released or published the name of any juvenile or any image depicting a juvenile, including displaying such image on any publicly maintained social media page ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| HB115 | Pass | United States Supreme Court case law and scientific research has changed how we think about juvenile delinquency. We know now that an adolescents brain is not fully developed until the mid-twenties which makes juveniles especially prone to poor decis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB148 | Pass | This Act expands the Division of Civil Rights and Public Trusts responsibility to review deadly use of force incidents by law enforcement by adding review of cases involving serious physical injury. It also requires that if the Division issues a publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB38 | Pass | In 2019, the 150th General Assembly enacted Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 37, which reformed the adult expungement process in this State. After a year of implementing this new expungement process, Senate Bill No. 38 was introduced to ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB111 | Pass | This Act creates an automatic expungement process for adult and juvenile charges that are eligible for mandatory expungement because under the petition-based system, only a small fraction of people eligible for expungement ever obtain this important ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| HB162 | Pass | The 18-month recidivism rate among juveniles released from Delawares Level 4 and Level 5 juvenile detention facilities is over 80%. This Act creates a fund to allow the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families to award competiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| HB215 | Pass | Confessions are powerful evidence of guilt. Therefore, this Act adopts the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Electronic Recordation of Custodial Interrogations Act to promote truth-finding, promote efficiency, and protect constitutional values.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB199 | Pass | This Act amends the maps of the district boundaries for the House of Representative and Senate Districts in the Delaware General Assembly in response to the 2020 U.S. Decennial Census. This Act also includes provisions to effectuate changes in Delawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-02
Signed by Governor |
| SR22 | Intro
Sine Die | This Resolution condemns the federal action against parents and reaffirms parents' rights to bring grievances to school boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-01
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 7 YES 14 NO |
| HCR42 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution requests an advisory opinion of the Justices of the Delaware Supreme Court regarding the proper construction of § 13 of Article III of the Delaware Constitution. This Resolution also tasks the Judiciary Committee of the Ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-11-01
Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 8 NO 6 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT |
| HB119 | Pass | This Act establishes Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States. The Act adds Juneteenth as a legal holiday and reduces the number of floating holidays from 2 to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB219 | Pass | 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 or pharmacists, and PBMs esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-26
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB123 | Pass | This Act supports children who spent part or all of their teen years in the State's foster care system to access higher education by providing a tuition waiver program to cover the cost of tuition, fees, and (where offered) room and board at a pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-21
Signed by Governor |
| HB182 | Pass | The Victims Compensation Assistance Program (Agency or VCAP) administers the Victims Compensation Fund and provides financial assistance to eligible victims of crimes to help cover the costs of a variety of services that help victims and their famili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB8 | Pass | This Act mandates that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Division of Public Health establish maximum contaminant levels for specific contaminants found in drinking water in this state. Such contaminants include PFO...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB92 | Pass | House Bill No. 92 reduces the term of a member elected to a school board from 5 years to 4 years for members elected after December 31, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB125 | Pass | Section 1 of this bill establishes the crimes of possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number, possession of and manufacturing a covert or undetectable firearm, possession of and manufacturing an untraceable firearm, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB169 | Pass | In 2019, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) was transferred from the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families to the Department of Education. This Act makes changes to improve OCCLs implementation and enforcement of the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB124 | Pass | This Act prohibits a person who is the subject of a Protection from Abuse Order of the Family Court and who knows or has reason to know, that the Order has been issued from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling a deadly weapon or ammunition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB122 | Pass | This Act is called the Jamie Wolfe Employment Act in recognition of Jamie Wolfe, a powerful disability rights advocate who worked tirelessly on behalf of people with disabilities for equal rights and equal access to education, housing, competitive an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB90 | Pass | This Act permits a candidate committee established by a candidate for public office to pay reasonable and necessary expenses for the care of a candidates child or children when care is necessary in connection with the candidates campaign activities. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB202 | Pass | This Act is designed to increase the opportunity for Delaware children to undergo developmental screening with a research-based screening tool at an early age in order to identify children who may be eligible for Early Intervention or special educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB82 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 82. Like Senate Bill 82, this Substitute does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB166 | Pass | Like House Bill No. 166, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 166 establishes the Elevate Delaware program. Elevate Delaware will provide payments for tuition and auxiliary expenses, up to $10,000, for individuals to attend an approved non-credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-19
Signed by Governor |
| SB161 | Pass | According to the Childrens Bureau within the Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico have enacted infant safe haven laws that allow a parent to su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB166 | Pass | Delaware has been irreparably harmed by the opioid crisis. In 2018, 400 people died of an overdose in Delaware, and in 2019, 431 people died of an overdose. Settlements from opioid distributors, manufacturers, and pharmacies are expected to provide s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB105 | Pass | This Act allows pharmacists to administer or dispense contraceptives under a standing order from the Division of Public Health. At least 11 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands allow pharmacists to dispense contraceptives wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB107 | Pass | This Act requires that individual, group, State employee, and public assistance insurance plans provide coverage for a medically necessary insulin pump at no cost to a covered individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB12 | Pass | The purpose of this act is to open up The Delaware Student Excellence Equals Degree Act (SEED Act) to adult Delaware residents, who are not recent high school graduates. Currently, about 56% of Delawareans age 25-64 lack a post-secondary degree. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB240 | Pass | This Act creates the Korey Thompson Student Emergency Housing Assistance Fund for the benefit of housing insecure undergraduate students at any college or university in Delaware and appropriates $90,000 to the Fund for FY2022. DSHA is charged with ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB120 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 120. Like Senate Bill No. 120, this Substitute continues recent efforts to strengthen the primary care system in this State by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-01
Signed by Governor |
| SB141 | Pass | This Act is the result of over 6 years of work and collaboration among the Family Court, Department of Justice, Department of Services for Youth, Children, and their Families, the Office of the Child Advocate, private adoption agencies, and the Famil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB80 | Pass | This bill provides that for correction officers and specified peace officers, the amount of ordinary service or disability pension benefits given to state employees shall also include the following: (1) Before January 1, 2022, 2.45% of his or her fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB98 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act addresses a condition of confinement issue that could adversely affect inmate rehabilitation efforts by eliminating solitary confinement imposed by the sentencing court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB218 | Pass | This Act modernizes fishing, hunting, and trapping license and associated waterfowl and trout stamp specifications to include digital formats. This Act refines the definition of waterfowl consistent with the gamebird waterfowl definition in existing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB109 | Pass | This Act requires that home health-care services for Medicaid long-term care services and support providers be reimbursed for services by Medicaid-contracted organizations at a rate equal to or more than the rate set by the Division of Medicaid and M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB73 | Pass | This Act permits an individual to practice dentistry for the Division of Public Health (Division) under a provisional license. Delaware law provides several routes for entering practice on an interim basis until full licensure can be obtained, howeve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
