| HB168 | Engross
50% | House Bill No. 168 creates a short-term rental lodging tax at the rate of 8% of the rent upon every occupancy of a short-term rental within the State. For purposes of collecting the lodging tax on short-term rentals, HB 168 creates an occupational li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB287 | Enroll
75% | This act requires that an owner be reimbursed up to $1,500 annually for veterinary care expenses paid by the owner for the care of a law-enforcement canine retired from a police department of a political subdivision of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HCR160 | Intro
25% | This House Concurrent Resolution urges the establishment of a medical school in the State of Delaware; calls for the formation of a formal Steering Group to guide the planning and implementation of a medical school; encourages the pursuit of partners...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| HCR157 | Intro
25% | This concurrent resolution urges all higher education institutions in the State of Delaware having nursing programs to pursue and establish ACME-accredited pathways for becoming Certified Nurse-Midwives and Certified Midwives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HR29 | Intro
25% | This Resolution recognizes Wednesday, June 26, 2024, as Staff Appreciation Day in the House of Representatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Introduced in House |
| HCR161 | Intro
25% | This resolution recognizes November 2024 as Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HCR162 | Intro
25% | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes the second week of October 2024 as Obesity Care Week in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HB281 | Pass | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB70 | Engross
50% | This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the persons 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the persons natural li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable |
| HB425 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 10:00 am]
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| HB451 | Intro
25% | This Act adds 911 dispatchers as covered persons for purposes of line of duty death benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 Favorable |
| HB357 | Engross
50% | This Act is the product of the work of the Firearms Definition Task Force (Task Force), which was created by this General Assembly under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| HB419 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 10:00 am]
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 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] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
Not Worked in Committee |
| HB408 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| HB319 | Engross
50% | This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 2:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB9 | Enroll
75% | This Act requires that all passenger vehicles and light duty vehicles owned and operated by the State be zero emission vehicles by 2040 by requiring increasing volumes of zero emission vehicles every few years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| HB16 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB444 | Engross
50% | This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 1:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| HCR156 | Engross
50% | This Resolution urges the State of Maryland to allow the sale of certified Delaware sod in Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HB423 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 1:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| 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] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 11:00 am]
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 4 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| HB453 | Intro
25% | This Act protects Delawares fresh water supply while also reducing costs for small businesses and single-family residential homeowners by eliminating the requirements for installation and yearly inspections of backflow preventors on low-hazard water ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 12 On Its Merits |
| HB247 | Enroll
75% | There were 139 traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2021, the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2006. Senate Concurrent Resolution 94 of the 151st Delaware General Assembly set a goal of no more than 100 traffic fatalities per year and tasked s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HB254 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends the Charter of The Town of Millville. Specifically, the Act more clearly identifies the documents needed to file for a Town Council member position, as well as the logistics of the candidate providing the results of the criminal backg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB252 | Enroll
75% | This Substitute bill differs from House Bill No. 252 by placing the Delaware Institute of Higher Education year-long teacher residency program under Section 1312 of Title 14 rather than Section 1305.This Substitute bill grants graduates of the Delawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB410 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act establishes the Legislative Hall Art and History Advisory Commission ("Commission"). The Commission is established to advise and make recommendations to Legislative Council regarding art, monuments, and historical exhi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 1:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| HB329 | Intro
25% | This Act addresses the growing concern over the safety of emergency responders. It increases the penalties for persons who violate this section, which requires drivers to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle making use of audible or visual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Amendment HA 2 to HB 329 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB396 | Engross
50% | This Bill amends the Charter of the Town of Delmar in multiple respects. In Section 7 of the Charter, which involves Nominations and Elections, every person over the age of 18 years who has resided in the town for 30 days prior to the election will b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 2:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB311 | Enroll
75% | In many states acts of violence have been committed with the use of firearms on college and university campuses that have resulted in both injury and death to students and faculty. This Act adds post-secondary colleges and universities to the Safe Sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| HB191 | Engross
50% | This substitute bill provides more clarity on the process by which a tenant may file an action in the Justice of the Peace Court to withhold rent payments in escrow. Specifically, the bill provides what the tenant must file in order to bring such act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB398 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the City of Seaford Charter to remove the section regarding Fire Department Appropriations, specifically, the City Council's authority to set aside or appropriate up to ten percent of real estate taxes to provide for and maintain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 2:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HB333 | Enroll
75% | This Act creates the Delaware Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Commission. This Commission shall be tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly and Department of Technology and Information on AI utilization and safety within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| HB140 | Fail | This Act permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual's life in a humane and dignified manner if both the individual's attending physician or attendin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 11 YES 10 NO |
| HB358 | Enroll
75% | This Act serves to clean up certain sections of the Boards Practice Act. Required statutory language omitted due to oversight have been added, such as standards for reciprocity, issuance and renewal of licenses, and hearing procedures. The requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB200 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware high schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2024, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 9-12 for a full-time school counselor, schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB279 | Enroll
75% | This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB355 | Enroll
75% | This Act provides legal protections for financial institutions and other entities that provide financial or accounting services to cannabis-related businesses that are licensed or registered under Delaware law. Specifically, it clarifies that banks, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| HB204 | Enroll
75% | This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses and other staff positions in long-term care facilities in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB282 | Veto | This Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Vetoed by Governor |
| HB273 | Enroll
75% | This Substitute bill adds 5 additional speech-language diagnosis to the 2 diagnoses listed in H.B. 273 and references that all 7 speech-language diagnoses are classified in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for billing purposes. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| HB23 | Enroll
75% | This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB110 | Enroll
75% | Section 1 amends Title 31 to require all health benefit plans delivered or issued for Medicaid to cover services related to the termination of pregnancy. Coverage provided under this section is not subject to any deductible, coinsurance, copayment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| HB286 | Enroll
75% | Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| HB382 | Enroll
75% | This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| HB192 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that the superintendent, school leader, or equivalent chief school officer who oversees a school or a charter school where students have single-digit proficiency in English language arts or mathematics, or both, collaborate with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Amendment SA 1 to HB 192 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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] | 2024-06-25
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB223 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the continuing education requirements for nursing professionals, mandating that all nursing professionals receive at least one hour of continuing education in each reporting period on the recognition of sexual or physical abuse, explo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| HCR158 | Intro
25% | This concurrent resolution designates October of each year as Dyslexia Awareness Month in Delaware. According to the United States National Institute of Health, dyslexia is a learning disability that can hinder a persons ability to read, write, spell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| HCR159 | Intro
25% | This Concurrent Resolution commends and congratulates the Secretary of Education Scholars for 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
