| SB101 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 101. Like Senate Bill No. 101, this Substitute creates a right to counsel for tenants in evictions and other landlord-tenant actions. Approximately 18,000 eviction cases are filed each year in the State of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-01
Defeated By House. Votes: 16 YES 23 NO 1 NOT VOTING |
| SB134 | Engross
Sine Die | Senate Bill No. 134 prohibits a food establishment from providing consumers with a single-service plastic coffee stirrer, cocktail pick, or sandwich pick or with ready-to-eat food or a beverage in polystyrene containers. SB 134 also prohibits food es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB472 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act raises the public bidding thresholds for procurement of goods, contractual services, professional services, and public works contracts by the government of New Castle County to match the bidding thresholds established by the States Contracti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB387 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act is made to authorize Paramedics and other Emergency Medical Services Personnel to provide medical care to Police Dogs injured at the scene of an emergency. This Act also grants civil and criminal immunity to such Emergency Employees who prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| HB152 | Engross
Sine Die | In a case of first impression, the Superior Court ruled, contrary to "common knowledge" of Delaware Criminal laws, that criminal impersonation requires proof that a real person (a human being who has been born and is alive) has been imperso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB468 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill allows for flashing lights to be placed upon trailers used by law enforcement for speed control purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| SB293 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act is companion legislation to Senate Bill 270. Currently, state code requires all school districts to match state- appropriated minor improvement funds with 40% local funds, regardless of a districts ability to do so. This bill changes the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act seeks to increase the supply of homes available to rent for low-income individuals and families by providing incentives to landlords who participate in a government-sponsored rental assistance program. To that end, this Act creates a Landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB330 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act provides that properties owned by the Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware are exempt from taxation. The Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware is an entity created by State law for purposes of planning and development of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
To House Administration Committee |
| SB90 | Engross
Sine Die | The Delaware Fair Housing Act and Residential Landlord-Tenant Code both prohibit discrimination based on source of income, which is defined as including rental payments from any government program, but both laws also provide that a landlord's non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Community Affairs) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| SB233 | Engross
Sine Die | In January 2021, of the 57 municipalities in this State, the following 12 municipalities had an agreement with the Department of Elections to use the States Voter Registration System to determine if a resident of the municipality is eligible to vote ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Tabled in Committee |
| HB93 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to view applications for grants-in-aid and to develop and recommend to the Joint Finance Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB180 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act revises the circumstances under which an applicant can be denied a license by the Real Estate Commission because of a criminal conviction. Similar to the recent changes made other professional license requirements, this Act does all of the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| HB471 | Engross
Sine Die | The Department of Agriculture recently responded to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza impacting Delaware poultry farms in coordination with agencies and officials from Delaware, Maryland, and USDA APHIS, as well as individual farmers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| HB431 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill creates a special license plate for Whitetails Unlimited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB433 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act clarifies what constitutes a sawmill in the State of Delaware and adds definitions related to agriculture and silviculture. This Act recognizes forest products as unadulterated materials and makes clear their importance to support a thriving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| HB333 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act amends Title 16 by prohibiting all persons from declawing a cat; a procedure defined as a onychectomy, dactylectomy, phalangectomy, tendonectomy, or any other procedure that removes a portion of the paw or digit of a cat in order to remove a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-16
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB264 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act requires the Delaware Department of Agriculture to promulgate rules and regulations, that will not become effective until July 1, 2024, classifying neonicotinoid pesticides designed or intended for use in outdoor applications as state restri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Tabled in Committee |
| HB385 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act allows any municipality with a population of 50,000 or more to establish by ordinance rules for the location of liquor stores that are more restrictive than state law, and requires the Alcohol Commissioner to refuse a license for any new est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB420 | Engross
Sine Die | The states pre-application process for land use process, known as PLUS, was created 20 years ago and has served to increase coordination among state and local agencies. In doing so, it has fulfilled its intent of providing predictability and consiste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| SB305 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act, known as the Delaware Climate Change Solutions Act, follows the issuance of Delawares Climate Action Plan in 2021, and establishes a statutory requirement of greenhouse gas emissions reductions over the medium and long term to mitigate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
Amendment HA 1 to SB 305 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB299 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act provides that Downtown Development Districts are limited in area based on the size of the municipality or unincorporated area in which they are located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-09
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| HB331 | Engross
Sine Die | Stands operated by children that serve or sell lemonade or other beverages on a temporary, occasional basis are a summertime tradition for many children. This Act exempts a stand operated by a child from State, county, and municipal regulations and l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-08
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| SB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Senate Bill No. 9 establishes new formulas that a community owner is allowed use to increase rent in a manufactured home community. Senate Substitute No. 1 to SB 9 makes discrete changes to the provisions of SB 9, most of which clarify language or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-08
Tabled in Committee |
| HB101 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act designates the Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) as the official State Reptile for the State of Delaware. This act shall expire 1 year after its enactment into law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB238 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act repeals the ability of a charter school to give preference in student admissions to students residing within a 5-mile radius of the school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-05
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB262 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act seeks to provide consumers with critical information about how their personal information is being used by data brokers. This Act requires data brokers to register with the Consumer Protection Unit of the Department of Justice and answer que...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-05
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| SB131 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act lowers the tax rate for premium cigars from 30% to 15% of the wholesale price so that Delaware's tax rate is consistent with the tax rates for premium cigars in surrounding states. The tax rate in Maryland is 15% and there is no tax on p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-14
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB231 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill prohibits the use of gender, gender identity, or sex as a rating factor in personal automobile insurance policies. The Gender Disparities in Auto Insurance Pricing Report issued by the Delaware Department of Insurance and Consumer Federatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB96 | Engross
Sine Die | House Bill No. 96 prohibits multiple service charges for residential trash collection service except if the charge is for any of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-23
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| HB179 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act revises Chapter 70 of Title 25, which governs manufactured homes on rented lots in manufactured home communities, by revising the eligibility criteria for the lot rental assistance program by expanding the sources of income that qualify a ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB64 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act requires that accumulated snow and ice be removed from surfaces of a vehicle before it is operated and imposes a civil penalty for a violation. This Act also creates a civil penalty for each instance where snow or ice dislodges from a moving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-18
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| HB151 | Engross
Sine Die | Sections 1 and 2 of this Act make clear that an individual who is the subject of a false report is a victim and is entitled to restitution and the benefits of the Victims Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB180 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act revises Chapter 70 of Title 25, which governs manufactured homes on rented lots in manufactured home communities, by adding disclosure requirements to the right of first offer process when the community owner decides to sell, transfer, or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Referred to Out of Committee Status |
| SB3 | Engross
Sine Die | This Substitute amends Senate Bill No. 3 by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-23
Amendment HA 1 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB185 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill seeks to address overpopulation of cats and dogs in our state by creating an additional revenue stream for the State Spay/Neuter Program, to relieve some of the funding burden on animal welfare organizations in the state that are involved i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| HB54 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act establishes an optional mid-year unit count and associated funding provisions. School districts and charter schools that elect to participate in the optional mid-year unit count shall receive state financial support for each additional unit,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB30 | Engross
Sine Die | Section 1 of this bill moves the date of primary elections for statewide office, county office, and municipal office to the fourth Tuesday in April, which is the date of the presidential primary (in presidential election years). The dates for submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| HB155 | Engross
Sine Die | This bill makes the definitions of sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability consistent throughout the Delaware Code and with federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| SB63 | Engross
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] | 2021-03-31
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| SB59 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act revises the appointment process for members of the Primary Care Reform Collaborative who are not members by virtue of position. Under this Act, these members are appointed by a government official to comply with the requirements of the Delaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-17
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 4 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits |
