| HB465 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides resources to microbusinesses that could be successful but lack sufficient resources to effectively implement their business plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
To House Administration Committee |
| HB455 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a 10-year program to address the lack of affordable housing in Delaware by establishing statewide limitations on the amount that rent can be increased as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
To House Housing Committee |
| HB454 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a small business COVID-19 tax credit for such businesses that have survived the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Not Worked in Committee |
| HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act eliminates the requirement that a school, school district, or licensed child care provider keep community notifications in a binder. Instead, schools, school district, or licensed child care providers are required to provide all of the follo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill amends Chapter 5, Title 11 of the Delaware Code related to the unlawful discharge of firearms within the State. The bill recognizes the potential danger of such discharges which occur during target shooting and other related firearm skill e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Reverse keyword court orders enable the government to obtain technology search data without identifying any specific person as to which there is probable cause to believe they have committed or will imminently commit a crime. The profusion of electro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Amendment HA 2 to HB 445 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| SB191 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act generally requires a student athlete to compete for athletic teams or in sports associated with their biological sex, as determined at or near birth and based on the students birth certificate or other government record if a birth certificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB427 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-06-21
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| HB452 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires that all rental units constructed before January 1, 1978, are certified as lead free or lead safe by a specific deadline. Lead inspectors must be approved by the State to conduct inspections and if necessary, lead abatement and reme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| HB449 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes the requirement that Kent County establish a Farmland Preservation Advisory Board. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB450 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a rental housing registry for the State of Delaware that is searchable by the public. In addition to basic information about the rental unit, the landlord must provide the results of any lead-based paint inspection or risk assessment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
To House Housing Committee |
| HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by a cabinet-level Secretary appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department will take over most of the duties currently handled by the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Amendment HA 1 to HB 399 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-06-20
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | This Substitute for House Bill No. 360 removes 1 floating holiday and adds 1 legal holiday that will rotate on a 3-year basis between Diwali, Eid ul-Fitr, and Yom Kippur, so that only one of those holidays will be a legal State holiday in any given y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | This bill allows Delaware residents age 60 and older to deduct their full pensions or other qualified retirement income from State taxable income. This bill contains technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| HB435 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-06-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB330 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act adds intentional interference with the operation of a school bus to the offense of disorderly conduct. Interference with a school bus may include boarding a school bus and refusing to exist after being lawfully ordered to do so by the school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| SB321 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act codifies rights afforded to persons with disabilities that are under guardianships pursuant to Chapters 39 and 39A in Title 12 of the Delaware Code. This Act also grants persons with disabilities the ability to motion the Court of Chancery f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Amendment SA 1 to SB 321 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB380 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes technical changes for clarity by adding a definition of mental condition to the Code section that deals with relinquishment of firearms for persons who may be a danger to self or others (also known as a red flag law). It also extends t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Not Worked in Committee |
| HB447 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services, in consultation with persons interested in the sale and pricing of prescription drugs as well as interested federal and state officials and agencies, to design and implement a wholesale ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Executive Committee |
| HB391 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 4, replacing Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4. and Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 4. Like Senate Bill No. 4, Senate Substitute No. 1, and Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Amendment SA 1 to SS 3 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| HB443 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To House Housing Committee |
| HB436 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB43 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB343 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act adopts the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act ("the Act") authored by the Uniform Law Commission. The Uniform Law Commission provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act updates the Grace Firestone Act to strengthen regulations for member schools regarding sudden cardiac arrest. The Act requires member schools to develop an athletic emergency action plan and have an automated external defibrillator (AED) les...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act removes prohibitions in Title 11 of the Delaware code regarding owning or possessing certain types of folding knives that may be opened with one hand. So-called "switch blade knives", which are more appropriately called automatic k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act amends provisions in Title 19 and Title 29 of the Delaware Code relating to the Department of Labors enforcement procedures and wage and hour enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act directs DIAA to separate all public and private school team championship sanctioned event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 180. Like Senate Bill No. 180, this Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution that does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 180 |
| HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB441 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires a health-care practitioner to offer a patient ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services before terminating a pregnancy. The patient is free to choose not to view the ultrasound or listen to the auscultation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act prohibits gender transition surgery for children due to the potential for an irrevocable procedure occurring when there is a significant probability that children will come to identify with their biological gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| HB421 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB262 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB244 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act directs phased in unit funding for every school or district to have an athletic trainer. A school or district with less than 3 sports teams must submit an application to the Department of Education should it wish to receive partial funding f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Health Resources Board, which this Act renames the Delaware Health Resources Advisory Board ("Advisory Board"). Ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act exempts an employee of a private school from the Safe School Zone law if the employee is designated by the employees private school employer to provide security for the school and the employee holds a Delaware concealed carry permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
