| HB265 | Intro
25% | This act requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally provides pornography and other materials defined as harmful to minors to verify the age of individuals accessing the material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Amendment HA 6 to HB 265 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB447 | Intro
25% | This Act creates Chapter 62 of Title 24 to regulate health-care advertisements, defined as any communication or statement that is directly controlled or administered by a health-care professional or a health-care professionals office personnel. It re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 11:00 am]
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| HB425 | Intro
25% | This Act moves the Office of Medical Marijuana, which is currently under the Department of Health and Social Services to the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner within the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Under this Act, the Marijuana Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB446 | Intro
25% | This bill prevents a consumer reporting agency from furnishing a consumer report if the report is being obtained due to an inquiry regarding a residential mortgage loan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB330 | Intro
25% | This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB439 | Intro
25% | Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in housing and property transactions. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 10:00 am]
Amendment HA 1 to HB 439 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB423 | Intro
25% | This Act permits a farm winery to apply for a license for use of a portion of the farm winery premises as a restaurant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB391 | Intro
25% | Delaware relies on fees imposed as surcharges by the criminal legal system to generate revenue for government services. These criminal fees can be an unstable revenue generator, especially when there are recessions, pandemics, or other major economic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| HB124 | Intro
25% | This Act eliminates animal noise and noise disturbances from the Noise Control and Abatement Chapter in Title 7. This Act clarifies the authority of the Office of Animal Welfare and Department of Agriculture to enforce all state laws relating to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB340 | Intro
25% | This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB387 | Intro
25% | This Act is the result of a successful pilot project involving disadvantaged business enterprises in State contracts. In 2023, Section 189 of Senate Bill No. 35, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 2, authorized the Office of Management and Budget (OM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB435 | Intro
25% | This bill creates a new chapter in Title 30 and establishes the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Program (STAR Program) and the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Fund (STAR Fund). The purpose of this STAR Program is to incentivize and attrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| HB400 | Intro
25% | This Act 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 submitting and withdr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB443 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Delaware State Housing Authority to establish and administer Low Barrier Navigation Centers (LBNCs). LBNCs are non-congregate, interim housing facilities designed to rapidly transition individuals or families into permanent hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
[Hearing: Jun 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HB432 | Intro
25% | This Act updates provisions of the code covering the Delaware Institute of Medical Education Research (DIMER), which creates partnerships with out-of-state medical schools as an alternative to creating a state sponsored medical school. Specifically, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 13 On Its Merits |
| HCR146 | Intro
25% | This Concurrent Resolution supports the Redding Commission for Educational Equitys recommendations to move immediately to support Christina School Districts City of Wilmington students and to plan for the eventual withdrawal of the Christina School D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Introduced in House |
| HB389 | Intro
25% | This Act provides for an annual raffle license that will allow for the holding of up to 20 raffle events a year. If such license is obtained, the organization must provide notice to the Board at least 7 days prior to any raffle event but does not hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Gaming & Parimutuels) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB397 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this Act is to reduce the cost to the State in addressing ownership of land encumbered by public right-of-way permanent easements when the land has been abandoned by a prior owner and a current owner cannot be located. This Act will al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB436 | Intro
25% | This Act allows participation in the county and municipal police/firefighter pension plan by persons who are employed full time as either a paid firefighter or a paid emergency medical technician or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Not Worked in Committee |
| HB426 | Intro
25% | This Act ensures that pregnant women in DOC custody, at Level IV or V, are able to meet with a doula or midwife to create a birth plan surrounding the birth of their child. Among other things, the birth plan must include a statement identifying a pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| HB43 | Intro
25% | This Act allows Delaware voters who are not affiliated with a political party to vote in a political party's primary election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Motion to Release Failed |
| HB428 | Intro
25% | This Act corrects, clarifies, and amends Title 29, Chapter 69 which articulates state procurement guidelines and procedures. The changes to the chapter realign some responsibilities from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the Dire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB427 | Intro
25% | This Act protects consumers by regulating home improvement contracts. Among other things, this Act provides the buyer with a right to cancel home improvement contracts within 3 days (5 days for those over the age of 62 or with a disability); limits c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB343 | Intro
25% | This Act reduces the State's rate of realty transfer tax by .25% per year for 4 years, for residential property conveyances having a property value less than $500,000, and for commercial property convenances having a property value less than $1,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Motion to Release Failed |
| HB411 | Intro
25% | This bill seeks to amend sections of Chapter 66 concerning the members of Delaware Volunteer Fire Departments. This bill will hold current members to the same standards as applicants with relation to criminal activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB438 | Intro
25% | This Act makes changes to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program. It removes the employer as the party responsible for making eligibility determinations and claims decisions and instead reallocates this responsibility to the Department of Labor an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB416 | Intro
25% | This Act raises the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of a low-speed vehicle from less than 2,500 pounds to 3,000 pounds or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB248 | Intro
25% | This House Substitute bill clarifies it is only for new or substantially modified permits and specifies it is only for the following permits: (1) Clean Air permit; (2) Coastal Zone Act permit; (3) Solid waste permit; (4) National Pollutant Discharge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| HB433 | Intro
25% | This Act revises the experience rating methodology for assigning unemployment assessment rates to employers under the Unemployment Insurance Code in Delaware, replacing the current benefit wage ratio methodology with the benefit ratio methodology use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB431 | Intro
25% | A major environmental concern is the spread of pathogens and invasive species across water bodies. The use of live bait in both non-tidal and tidal waters can inadvertently result in the transfer of invasive species and pathogens to new waters. Fresh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 3 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| HB203 | Intro
25% | With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB444 | Intro
25% | This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| HB441 | Intro
25% | This Act encourages patients to choose physical therapy, occupational therapy, and neuromuscular massage therapy as a safe alternative to opioid use for managing acute and chronic pain by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| HB434 | Intro
25% | This bill requires DNREC to be transparent and citizen friendly in how it conducts public hearings by returning to the pre-COVID in-person public hearing process. The bill requires DNREC to hold public hearings having a physical location allowing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| HB437 | Intro
25% | This bill modifies the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs employee requirements to make the Executive Director an exempt position, and to allow the hiring of non-veteran employees when needed. This will positively impact veteran families by redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| HB440 | Intro
25% | Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in employment and professional activities. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Labor Committee |
| HB421 | Intro
25% | This bill amends section 1318 of Title 14 to provide an education employee paid time off to recover from injury incurred in the performance of duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Education Committee |
| HB424 | Intro
25% | Currently, if a child files an application in Superior Court to have their criminal case transferred to Family Court and the Superior Court denies the application, there is no recourse for appeal until the childs criminal case is finally adjudicated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB412 | Intro
25% | Like Chapter 19 of Title 10, covering judicial officers, and a similar provision pending for correctional officers, this Act allows law enforcement officers to submit a written request that their personal information not be publicly released. The wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
Amendment HA 1 to HB 412 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB430 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to make technical corrections to the Delaware Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| HB429 | Intro
25% | This legislation, the State Spending Accountability Amendment, is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would reform the state budgeting process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| HB17 | Intro
25% | This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Motion to Release Failed |
| HB418 | Intro
25% | This Act amends the Town of Laurel Charter to allow for an increase in the permitted late fee charged for unpaid taxes from three percent (3%) to five percent (5%) per annum for each month such taxes remain unpaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Administration Committee |
| HB262 | Intro
25% | This Act permits wine producers holding a valid license within this State or another state to obtain a license and ship wine directly to Delaware consumers so long as it is done through a common carrier with a carrier permit. This Act requires that w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Not Worked in Committee |
| HR28 | Intro
25% | This resolution recognizes the last Monday of May as Memorial Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HB408 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a temporary conversion license for existing medical marijuana compassion centers to operate for recreational marijuana purposes, and sets forth requirements to obtain a conversion license and to operate under such a license. This Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB365 | Intro
25% | This Act is enabling legislation that establishes the framework and requirements for a competitive mobile sports wagering market in Delaware under the authority of the Lottery Director. Sports wagering is now legal in 38 states, and 29 states have le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB406 | Intro
25% | This bill grants the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement the ability to enter into offers in compromise with importers to resolve alleged violations of Title 4 and Office of the Delaware Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner Rules. Currentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| HB360 | Intro
25% | This Act adds Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha to the list of state holidays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
