| SB66 | Pass | This Act adds the Senate Minority Leader and the House Minority Leader as members of the Public Health Emergency Planning Commission (Commission).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB186 | Pass | This Act enables Sussex County to use the Voluntary School Assessment (VSA) to address the impact of residential development on school capacity. The following is a summary of the Acts 3 sections:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB8 | Pass | This Act is the second substitute for Senate Bill No. 8. Like Senate Bill No. 8 and its first substitute, this Act protects patients from unfair debt collection practices for medical debt, including prohibiting large health care facilities from charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB152 | Pass | This Act expands the rights of long-term care facility residents by ensuring that long-term care facility residents are entitled to care that recognizes cultural differences and preferences and that long-term care facility residents are made aware of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB153 | Pass | This Act makes changes to provisions related to behavioral health and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to reflect current practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB82 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Elections to biennially mail a notice to all registered voters informing the registrant of their polling place and containing the following additional information: a brief description of all available methods of vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB78 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of a catalytic converter and limits the purchase or sale of a catalytic converter to a licensed automotive recycler or licensed scrap metal processor, and their respective employees and agents. The Act prohibits minors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB91 | Pass | Delaware law on the application to an authorized judge for the intercept of wire communications was written prior to the creation of the statutory divisions of Family, Fraud and Consumer Protection, and Civil Rights and Public Trust, within the Delaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB181 | Pass | This Act allows the State Bureau of Identification to release subsequent arrest notifications to the Department of Education for its employees and contractors. This Act also corrects existing typos in § 309 of Title 31 and makes clarifying changes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB154 | Pass | This bill creates the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. The Act delineates a consumers personal data rights and provides that residents of this State will have the right to know what information is being collected about them, see the information, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB188 | Pass | This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB146 | Pass | Under current law, an individual can file a charge of employment discrimination by sending the verified charge to the Delaware Department of Labor (Department). This Act clarifies that a verified charge of discrimination is deemed to be filed on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| SB145 | Pass | This Act increases the limits on the dollar amount of awards of compensatory or punitive damages, or both, in cases of employment discrimination, establishing specific caps based on the number of the respondent's employees. This Act also clarifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| HB139 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Townsend in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB72 | Pass | In 2017, the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Public Law No. 115-97, suspended many itemized deductions from individual federal taxes until January 1, 2026, including the itemized deduction for costs to maintain membership in a labor organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB28 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for Whitetails Unlimited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB182 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 182. Like Senate Bill No. 182, this act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB178 | Pass | Under § 3716(e) of Title 19, the Family and Medical Leave Program (FMLP) allows the Department of Labor (Department) to approve private benefits in existence on May 10, 2022, as a private plan under the FMLP, for applications submitted by January 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB185 | Pass | This Act extends the date that the requirements created by Senate Bill 283 in the 151st become effective to allow the Division of Professional Regulation more time to implement these requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB98 | Pass | This Act allows Dental Clinicians possessing a DDS or DMDS to participate in the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment grant program. The Act also extends the time in which providers may apply for a Health Care Provider Loan Repayment grant from six mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB156 | Pass | This Act establishes the comprehensive framework for the regulation of pet insurance transacted in Delaware. The Act reflects the adoption of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Pet Insurance Model Act, with adjustments made to confor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB228 | Pass | Section 1 of the bill amends Delawares file-and-use statute for insurance rate filings to extend the timeline for filing and reviewing insurers rate filing by (1) requiring rate filings to be filed at least 60 days in advance of the proposed effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB80 | Pass | Senate Bill No. 80 codifies the current practice in Delaware of not requiring proof of citizenship or a specific immigration status on an application for a professional license. By affirmatively providing eligibility for professional licenses regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB227 | Pass | This Act makes various amendments to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to improve compliance with its testing and reporting requirements. First, this Act requires physicians to take a training program every 2 years relating to the provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SJR1 | Pass | This Senate Joint Resolution directs the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to explore participating in the federal title IV-E Guardianship Assistance Program to increase support to relative guardians and facilitate perma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB174 | Pass | This Act requires a referral to a school-based mental or behavioral health specialist for any student after their second unduplicated infraction resulting in out-of-school suspension in a semester. This Substitute bill clarifies that the referral is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB108 | Pass | This Act revises the State's Gold Alert Program to include missing children and increase dissemination of information to the public to better assist the State's search efforts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB132 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act amends § 6504 of Title 10 to correct two erroneous cross-references (the cross-references will now correctly reference Title 12 rather than Title 10 of the Delaware Code).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB141 | Pass | This Act requires all candidates for statewide office, the General Assembly, and all elected county offices, to request a criminal history background check, no later than the filing deadline, from the State Bureau of Identification. The State Bureau ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB109 | Pass | Under this bill, when the State incurs costs for impounding an animal and the owner fails to pay the costs, the time in which ownership of the animal reverts to the State is reduced from 30 days to 15 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-24
Signed by Governor |
| HB138 | Pass | This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Signed by Governor |
| SB155 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for Plastic Free Delaware, Inc., a nonprofit whose mission is to reduce single-use plastic pollution and build a culture of zero waste in Delaware through educational programs, awareness building, and policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB51 | Pass | This Act prohibits food establishments from providing consumers with ready-to-eat food or beverages in polystyrene foam containers or with single-service plastic coffee stirrers, cocktail picks, or sandwich picks. It also prohibits food establishment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Signed by Governor |
| SB87 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 87. Like Senate Bill No. 87, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB201 | Pass | As of April 4, 2023, 74 people have been killed or injured by guns in schools this year in 13 separate school shootings. School shootings hit a record high in 2022 with 46 shootings, surpassing 2021s record of 42 shootings. In 2022, 43,450 children e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| HB202 | Pass | This Act limits those individuals who may possess a firearm at a polling place on an Election Day to the following: (1) law enforcement officers, (2) commissioned security guards acting in their official capacity, (3) constables acting in their offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB157 | Pass | This Act, the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, was drafted by the Uniform Law Commission in partnership with the American Law Institute. The Uniform Law Commission "provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| SB92 | Pass | This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act by expanding the jurisdictional application of the Act to employers with less than 100 employees and as few as 25 employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB129 | Pass | The Act updates the Delaware Code concerning animal shelter standards and treatment of animals in shelters to reflect best practices, which are currently already being followed by most shelters. The Act also fills in gaps in existing law, such as by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB93 | Pass | This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act by requiring that the Board, consistent with the Boards Rules and Regulations, issue written decisions following hearings on unfair labor practice charges within 30 days of the close of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB165 | Pass | This Act amends Chapter 25, Title 24 of the Delaware Code relating to the Practice of Pharmacy. The amendments authorize pharmacists to engage in collaborative pharmacy practice with one or more practitioners meaning individuals who are authorized by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| SB189 | Pass | This Act adds xylazine and it isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers to Schedule III of the Delaware Uniform Controlled Substances Act and expands the authorization for the distribution of testing strips to determine t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| HB160 | Pass | The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 established 988 as the universal phone number for "the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline." Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB4 | Pass | This Act is Nolans Law. The purpose of this legislation is to provide more behavioral health supports to school districts and charter schools in the aftermath of a school-connected traumatic event, which is defined as the death of any student, educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB3 | Pass | According to a recent CDC survey, the COVID pandemic exacerbated an existing mental health crisis for students. One in 5 school aged children has a mental health condition, and 45% of children may have experienced a traumatic event. This bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| SB176 | Pass | 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 retired law-enforcement canine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB117 | Pass | This Act authorizes paramedics and other EMS providers to provide medical care to police dogs injured at the scene of an emergency. This Act also grants civil immunity to paramedics and other EMS providers who provide medical services to police dogs,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB156 | Pass | Under the current salary scale for teachers, if a permitted paraprofessional in a school wishes to become a certified teacher in the same school, they may have to take a pay cut to do so. This Act provides teachers who previously worked as paraprofes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| HB105 | Pass | This Act requires physicians who are discontinuing business, leaving the State, or terminating a patient-physician relationship for any other reason to notify affected patients at least thirty days prior to the discontinuation of services via first c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB148 | Pass | This Act allows a practitioner with the authority to prescribe medication to give the unused portion of topical medication used during treatment to a patient upon discharge or the conclusion of the visit. This Act is based on the Model Act created by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
