| HB241 | Pass | This bill expands the Employment First Oversight Commission by adding the Director of the Division for the Visually Impaired as a member, the Director of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, and other councils, committees, agencies, org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB47 | Pass | This Act simplifies Delawares drug code with a goal of providing more fairness in its application. This Act removes geographic-based enhancements that disproportionately impact those living in urban areas as opposed to suburban and rural areas. This ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB77 | Pass | This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB78 | Pass | This Act aims to make the robbery section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act deletes the carjacking sections and embeds them within the existing robbery statutes to remove duplication from the code. Under this Act, robbery in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| HB56 | Pass | This act names the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 301 between Route 1 and the Delaware Maryland State line as First Responders Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB239 | Pass | This Act prohibits a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination by a health care practitioner or professional on an individual who is anesthetized or unconscious. This Act provides exceptions and they are if informed consent is provided, the examination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB24 | Pass | This Substitute differs from Senate Bill No. 24 by requiring a patient to apply for a compassionate use medical marijuana card when a doctor recommends medical marijuana to a patient who does not have a qualifying debilitating medical condition. To a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB78 | Pass | This Act requires that the health education programs presented by the Department of Education include instruction on what it means to "consent" in the context of a sexual encounter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| SB15 | Pass | This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-21
Signed by Governor |
| SB63 | Pass | The Delaware Equal Accommodations Law, Chapter 45 of Title 6 of the Delaware Code, prevents discrimination against people because of their race, age, marital status, creed, color, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national orig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB65 | Pass | This Bill enables the use of roof or ground mounted solar systems on privately owned residential dwellings by making covenants or other restrictions that effectively prohibit or unreasonably restrict the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB134 | Pass | Under current Delaware law, the county sheriffs offices are required to appraise goods that are being levied upon to pay debts. In addition, the sheriffs offices can be held liable to pay the debts of a judgment debtor if, for example, they inadverte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB135 | Pass | The Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee approved a project to work with the Governor's Office throughout 2018 and 2019 to identify antiquated boards, commissions, and councils that need statutory updates or outright repeals. The Gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB138 | Pass | This Act is the result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees review of the Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education (DACCTE), and does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| HB113 | Pass | This bill clarifies that Delaware law enforcement may enter into agreements to provide mutual assistance to other jurisdictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| SB131 | Pass | This Act authorizes the State and its counties and municipalities to install and use vehicle height monitoring systems ("vehicle height monitoring system") to assist in the enforcement of applicable State, county, or municipal law regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-15
Signed by Governor |
| SB32 | Pass | This Act prohibits the practice known as patient brokering, which is the practice where patient brokers are paid a fee to place insured people in treatment centers so that the treatment centers receive thousands of dollars in insurance claim payments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-14
Signed by Governor |
| HB119 | Pass | The bill expands the qualified agencies authorized to receive grants approved by the Water Infrastructure Advisory Council to include non-profit corporations, such as the Diamond State Sustainability Corporation (DSSC), approved by Public Service Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-14
Signed by Governor |
| SB161 | Pass | This Act allows law-enforcement officers to share an individual's identifying information with the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health ("DSAMH") if the officer suspects the individual is suffering from an overdose or a mental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB220 | Pass | This Act adds coverage for Medication Assisted Treatment ("MAT") for drug and alcohol dependencies to the mental health parity laws for health insurance. This Act requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for prescription medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HJR6 | Pass | This Joint Resolution calls on the Behavioral Health Consortium to issue legislative and regulatory recommendations which would increase access to the total number of Medication Assisted Treatment prescribers among all providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| HB124 | Pass | This Bill modifies the impact of criminal history on an applicants eligibility for licensure. It gives the Board discretion to grant waivers for felony convictions for crimes committed against a person where more than 3 years have elapsed, and more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB10 | Pass | This Act is identical to Senate Bill No. 127 from the 149th General Assembly, which was passed by the Senate and reported out of the House Administration Committee. This Act corrects an inadvertent error in Delaware law that has permitted people youn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB125 | Pass | Currently, non-resident pass-through entities, trusts, and estates are required to pay estimated income taxes anticipated to be due as a result of real estate transactions before each deed is recorded. The payment of estimated income taxes before eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB7 | Pass | This Bill modifies the impact of criminal history on an applicants eligibility for licensure and thereby removes certain barriers to employment. It gives the Board the discretion to grant a waiver of a felony conviction for a crime committed against ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB113 | Pass | This Act results from the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's review of the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act Fund (HSCA Fund). Section 1 of the Act, which will take effect on January 1, 2021, provides that the Fund's 15% cap on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB43 | Pass | This Act modifies the impact of criminal history for applicants for licensure to the Board of Electrical Examiners (Board). Specifically, this Act:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| SB73 | Pass | Daylight saving time has existed in one form or another for over 100 years. In that time, Delawareans have become accustomed to the 8 months of daylight saving time each year. This Act provides for Delaware to permanently remain on daylight saving ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| HB128 | Pass | This Act extends the time period for which a member of the Delaware National Guard may receive funding for certain postsecondary education tuition and fees from 10 years after the date on which the member begins the first course for which funds are g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| HB30 | Pass | Unmanned aircraft systems are capable of introducing contraband into detention facilities without undergoing correctional officer inspections. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to introduce contraband into dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-08
Signed by Governor |
| SB116 | Pass | This Act expands the membership of the Primary Care Reform Collaborative and creates an Office of Value-Based Health Care Delivery in the Department of Insurance to reduce health care costs by increasing the availability of high quality, cost-efficie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| SB166 | Pass | This Act encourages school districts and charter schools to cooperate to ensure that State appropriations for school transportation are used efficiently by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB92 | Pass | Delaware is one of only 3 states that does not offer some form of adult dental coverage through Medicaid (alongside Tennessee and Alabama).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB35 | Pass | This Act revises Delaware Insurance Code provisions related to the individual and group health insurance markets to directly incorporate into Delaware law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts consumer protections related to the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| SB187 | Pass | This Act amends Section 3001(d)(1) of Title 14 to require that the Department of Education ensure that the standards of the Delaware Stars for Early Success system are consistent with the regulations of the Office of Child Care Licensing. It also rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| SB153 | Pass | This legislation is based on information technology (IT) recommendations of the Government Efficiency and Accountability Review (GEAR) Board established by Governor Carneys Executive Order Four. This act modernizes Chapter 90C of Title 29 of the Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-05
Signed by Governor |
| HB156 | Pass | This bill allows our wounded warriors or similar veterans' organizations who have been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States and have at least a 60% service-connected disability to be able to obtain a license to hunt, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| HB174 | Pass | This Act establishes standards for data security for Title 18 licensees and standards for the investigation of and notification to the Commissioner of a cybersecurity event affecting Title 18 licensees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB45 | Pass | Under current law, the possession, use, or consumption of a personal use quantity of marijuana remains a crime for those under the age of 21 despite being a civil violation for adults. This Act makes the possession, use, or consumption of a personal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB12 | Pass | This Act strengthens the role and responsibilities of the Provider Advisory Board in regard to the implementation and enforcement of The Delaware Child Care Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB58 | Pass | This act will increase the numbers of Delaware nursing students eligible for the nursing incentive program by allowing Delawareans pursuing nursing careers at non-profit hospitals located in Delaware to be eligible for the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB209 | Pass | This legislation expands the list of central contracts currently available to be accessed by state agencies and other allowed organizations to include professional services contracts. The legislation also adds local governments to the list of organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB208 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Hazardous Substance Control Act to reflect recent amendments to the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). This Act protects state, county, and municipal government entitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB143 | Pass | The Plans Management Board (the Board) oversees and administers the State's Deferred Compensation Program authorized under chapter 60A of Title 29 of the Delaware Code. The Deferred Compensation Program encompasses the following 3 distinct supple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB195 | Pass | The purpose of the Bill is to update the existing beekeeping code to better reflect current practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB61 | Pass | State economic development officials pursue economic development opportunities that, if realized, would have significant impact on Delaware's future economic health and competitiveness. Such situations frequently require expeditious action and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| HB95 | Pass | This Act expands the permitted uses of unclaimed electric cooperative capital credits to include investments in energy services for low income members and energy efficiency, renewable energy, battery storage, electrification and emerging energy techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| SB83 | Pass | This Act adopts the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact (Compact). The Compact benefits the public by improving continuity of care, increasing license portability for military spouses, and increasing access to physical therapy providers. Under the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB94 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act amends Section 903 of Title 13 of the Delaware Code. Substantively, this Act allows persons who are not married but who are cohabitating to jointly adopt a child that is not theirs. The Act also rewrites the statute so as to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| SB95 | Pass | This Act provides a fair bidding environment for contractors who obey the law and protects the interests of workers and taxpayers by implementing recommendations from the review of the Workplace Fraud Act required by Senate Resolution No. 26 of the 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
