| HB131 | Pass | This Act resolves ambiguities in the current law and confirms the ability of a spouse who owns real property as tenant by the entirety, acting alone, to convey that spouses interest in such real property to both spouses, as tenants by the entirety or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| SB50 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative and Oversight Committee's review of the Advisory Council on Walkability and Pedestrian Awareness ("Council"). This Act codifies the Council, which was first established under Governor Ruth A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB48 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Council on Libraries. This Act repeals the Delaware Public Library Technology Assistance Act because Delaware Division of Libraries no longer issues tech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB47 | Pass | This Act is the result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Council on Libraries ("Council"). This Act updates the Council's membership composition, defines quorum, and adds other standard provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB49 | Pass | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Governor's Commission on Community and Volunteer Services ("Commission"). This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB120 | Pass | This bill adds workforce and affordable housing programs to the current list of realty transfer tax eligible expenditures for New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| SB30 | Pass | This Act clarifies what constitutes a sawmill under Delaware law 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 indus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| HB95 | Pass | This Act requires Family Court to award possession and provide for the care of companion animals when dividing marital property after considering the well-being of the companion animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB70 | Pass | This Act adds the following acts against a person's companion animal or service animal to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB68 | Pass | This Act clarifies former HB 148 from the 151st General Assembly by defining the start and end date of the 4 year lookback period that determines if a municipality, governmental unit, the University of Delaware, or Delaware State University is subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB71 | Pass | This Act requires law-enforcement agencies, the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, and the Department of Justice to report suspected animal cruelty to the Office of Animal Welfare that is discovered while performing their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB63 | Pass | This bill allows pensioners to earn $50,000 (instead of $40,000) before incurring a $1.00 deduction to their state pension for every $2.00 earned over that amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| SB90 | Pass | This bill modernizes the First State Quality Improvement Fund (FSQIF) Act, using language from the field of continuous improvement and operational excellence to align with current industry accepted practices. This bill provides improved accountabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| HB33 | Pass | This Act increases funding for preschool children with disabilities who are not counted in either "intensive" or "complex" special education units by revising the current ratio of 12.8 students per unit to 8.4 students per unit fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| HB102 | Pass | This Act expedites the issuance of a temporary entrance permit for commercial and economic development projects. The Act also makes technical changes to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB104 | Pass | 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] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB73 | Pass | This Act modifies the Public Works Bidder Prequalification period and changes from the existing 12-month valid period to a 24-month valid period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB33 | Pass | This bill adopts a key recommendation of the Child Protection Accountability Commission Caseloads and Workloads final report approved on November 20, 2019, that Division of Family Services (DFS) caseload standards be reduced from 18 to 12 families pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB57 | Pass | In Chiafalo v. Washington, 140 S.Ct. 2316 (2020), the United States Supreme Court made clear that states have the authority to remove or punish presidential electors who do not adhere to their obligation to vote faithfully for their parties candidate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-09
Signed by Governor |
| SB62 | Pass | This Act makes minor changes to licensing and registration of limited lines travel insurance producers and travel retailers and establishes a comprehensive framework for the sale and marketing of travel insurance. Specifically, the legislation establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB97 | Pass | In 1995, the General Assembly directed the Code Revisors to gender neutralize or otherwise ensure that a solely masculine or feminine designation never occurs unless it could only apply to one gender. The Code Revisors followed this direction and wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB95 | Pass | This Act adds clarity to the statutory changes made by Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 151 of the 151st General Assembly related to drivers licenses for foster children. This Act clarifies that during the initial 6 months of a Learners Permit, a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB57 | Pass | During the 151st General Assembly, House Bill No. 328 was passed updating the law relating to drag racing and other speed contests. This bill makes a small change to that law by specifying that tag-surrender in lieu of impoundment is available as a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB37 | Pass | This act designates rescue dogs as the official state dog.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-30
Signed by Governor |
| HB46 | Pass | This bill reflects the National Association of Insurance Commissioners revisions to the Model Credit for Reinsurance Act giving the Commissioner express regulatory authority to address the handling and treatment of reinsurance agreements entered into...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB48 | Pass | This bill expands record retention requirements for licensed producers, adjusters and appraisers from 3 to 5 years. The bill also makes technical changes to conform to the Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB47 | Pass | Delawares capital and surplus requirements for insurers have been in place for over fifty years and are currently among the lowest in the country. This bill increases the minimum amount of capital stock and free surplus an insurer must possess and ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB54 | Pass | Currently, all health insurance plans subject to requirements under Delaware law must include at least 1 formulation of epinephrine autoinjectors on the lowest tier of the carrier's drug formulary for individuals who are 18 years of age or younge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB64 | Pass | This Act promotes increased capital investment at Delaware casinos by restructuring the table games licensing fee reduction currently received by video lottery agents to allow capital investments greater than the minimum amounts required under § 481...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| HB69 | Pass | This Act eliminates the requirement of a daily average of no less than 25 full time employees to operate a beer garden. Beer gardens are presently the only liquor establishments that have a statutory staffing requirement. This Act also includes beer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
Signed by Governor |
| SB34 | Pass | On March 1, 1875, the federal Civil Rights Act was enacted. Following the end of the Civil War and the adoption of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was to guarantee Blacks equal treatment in places of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB88 | Pass | Under Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 78 (151st), the Commissioner of Elections (Commissioner) must determine that an individual does not have any disqualifying convictions before the individual can be a candidate for election to a school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB31 | Pass | This Act corrects a technical error in SB 227 (149th General Assembly) by establishing requirements for group and blanket health insurance plans that align with existing requirements for individual and State employee health insurance plans. As introd...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB81 | Pass | This Act makes clear that a school district may deny a request from a charter school to have the school district where the charter school is located to transport students residing in that district. If the school district denies the request, the chart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB32 | Pass | This Act raises the permissible service charge for a boat registration from $5 to $10 and the permissible service charge for a boat ramp certificate from $1.50 to $5.00.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB45 | Pass | This Act amends Chapter 30A of Title 14 to clarify that screening will not be conducted if a parent declines developmental screening or notifies the licensee that the child is already receiving early intervention services or special education and rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB53 | Pass | This bill removes the requirement that a head or assistant head of any Division of the State Department of Justice or the Chief Prosecutor of a particular county be a resident of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB2 | Pass | The Delaware Marijuana Control Act regulates and taxes marijuana for recreational use in much the same manner as alcohol. It creates a framework for production, manufacture, and sale in a legal recreational marijuana industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB100 | Pass | This substitute bill, which makes only technical changes to the original bill, creates a special license plate for the Delaware State Police which will be displayed on the active fleet at the discretion of the Superintendent of the State Police for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB27 | Pass | This Act increases the statute of limitations for filing an action for recovery upon a claim for unpaid wages from 1 year to 2 years, making it consistent with the statute of limitations under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB61 | Pass | The Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Authority administers the Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Trust Fund. This Act provides members of the board of directors of the Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Authority with $100 in compensation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB35 | Pass | This Act charges the Department of Safety & Homeland Security, in cooperation with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Department of Transportation, to present a report and plan to the General Assembly no later t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| SB60 | Pass | This Act provides teachers and other school employees with the same protection to be absent without a loss of pay as State merit employees for all of the following reasons:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| HB1 | Pass | This Act removes all penalties for use or possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana and marijuana accessories. It further specifies that the adult sharing of a personal use quantity or less of marijuana is legal activity for those 21 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-23
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| HB34 | Pass | House Bill No. 34 requires school boards, including charter schools, to permit public comment on each agenda item presented for a vote at a school board meeting. The public comment period must take place before the school board vote on an agenda item...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB71 | Pass | This bill clarifies that the goal and function of the Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board includes Lyme Disease and other tick-related diseases. This Act supersedes the previous sunset provision that established the Board in House Bill 291 from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB38 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Magnolia to update and clarify the authority of the Town to borrow money. Specifically, this Act increases the short-term borrowing limit from $15,000 to $50,000, which borrowings are to be authorized by a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB51 | Pass | This bill allows the fleet inspection program to be applicable to a fleet of 10 or more vehicles (instead of 15) and counts trailers requiring inspection to count as fleet vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB52 | Pass | This bill adds a Delaware licensed psychiatrist as a voting member of the Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB63 | Pass | This bill updates the criteria for agriculture, horticulture, or forestry land use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
Signed by Governor |
