| DE | HB354 | Pass | This Act makes the Delaware equal accommodation law internally consistent, correctly organized, and aligned with the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB382 | Pass | This Act has the effect of renaming the Delaware Department of Transportation Welcome Center on Interstate 95 at 530 JFK Memorial Highway, Newark, Delaware as the "Biden Welcome Center" in honor of the Biden family. This gesture is made bec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB166 | Pass | This Act requires that feminine hygiene products be provided free of charge to individuals in custody at facilities operated by the Department of Correction and facilities operated by the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB184 | Pass | As the self-storage industry continues to grow, it is important for consumers to have the option to insure their items stored in a self-storage facility. Currently, Delaware law does not provide a licensing structure for the sale of self-storage insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB440 | Pass | House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 440 differs from House Bill 440 only in that it locates the Overdose System of Care and the Overdose System of Care Committee in Chapter 97 of Title 16 instead of in Chapter 10 of Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB206 | Pass | Far too many Delawareans have been personally affected by addiction and substance use disorder and have experienced the tragedy of watching loved ones suffer from this chronic disease. Nearly 2,000 individuals in Delaware suffered a non-fatal overdos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB346 | Pass | This Act establishes the High Needs Educator Student Loan Payment Program. The Program allows qualified applicants to apply for a payment from the State to the applicants lending agency, to pay a portion of the applicants student loan debt. The purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-05
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB104 | Pass | The state is currently funding service providers at 75% of the market rate established in a 2014 study that was done by DHSS. This bill would mandate an increase in the rates paid to service providers according to the recommendations of the market st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB219 | Pass | The 146th General Assembly gave the Department of Health and Social Services the authority to promulgate regulations and require accreditation for facilities that perform invasive medical procedures. The current terminology and definition of an invas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB156 | Pass | This Act amends § 2532 of Title 29, in the Not-for-Profit Healthcare Conversion Act, to ensure that the Attorney General has sufficient time to review a proposed not-for-profit healthcare conversion and, if appropriate, take action to protect the ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB7 | Pass | This Act provides county and municipal police and firefighters with the same pension burial benefit that is provided to state employees effective July 1, 2016. This Act is named for Wilmington Firefighters Captain Christopher M. Leach, Lieutenant Jer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB157 | Pass | Expedited partner therapy (EPT) is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease without clinical assessment of the partners. In August 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB11 | Pass | This Act relates to police and fire pension funds created under Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The General Assembly created a special fund in the hopes of ensuring adequate pensions for affected police officers and firefighters, and their surviving s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB368 | Pass | This Act creates the Green Alert Program to aid in locating missing members of the armed forces, including veterans, who have a physical or mental health condition that is related to their service. This Act is modeled after Delawares existing Gold Al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB172 | Pass | This bill will increase the public transparency of education funding information by directing the Department of Education to:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB169 | Pass | This Act makes a technical correction to SB 169 by changing the designations of the new statutes and incorporates Senate Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 169.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB227 | Pass | This Act promotes the use of primary care by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB230 | Pass | This bill amends Title 18 of the Delaware Code, § 3343, by setting annual reporting requirements for insurance carriers with regard to coverage for serious mental illness and drug and alcohol dependencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB456 | Pass | This Act amends Titles 14, 16, 17, 26, and 29 of the Delaware Code to prohibit the use of lead paints on outdoor structures such as bridges, water towers, playground equipment, highways, parking lots, and utility towers and poles, in order to protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB374 | Pass | This bill adds glaucoma, chronic debilitating migraines, pediatric autism spectrum disorder, pediatric sensory processing disorder to the list of debilitating medical conditions which may qualify a person, upon certification by a physician, to be eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB242 | Pass | This Act creates Pay for Success contracts. A Pay for Success contract is an agreement between a State agency and either a program intermediary or an investor under which an investor will provide upfront capital to fund a service, program, or economi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB246 | Pass | This act provides greater flexibility for County and Municipal governments to enter into public-private partnerships for public lands. These agreements provide opportunities for the preservation of public land and limit the amount of government money...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HJR13 | Pass | In January of 2018 the federal government passed the Federal Register Printing Savings Act, which included a moratorium in calendar year 2019 on a fee paid by health insurance companies or health service corporations to the federal government. The St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB65 | Pass | Conversion therapy is a practice or treatment that seeks to change an individuals sexual orientation or gender identity, including any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB168 | Pass | According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 42% of all face-to-face contact between individuals and law-enforcement officers occurred during a traffic stop.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB362 | Pass | This bill sets forth revisions to the Code related to Adult Protective Services. The bill updates language to reflect best practices and current names of agencies and class positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB181 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB182 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB180 | Pass | Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a)(1) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited liability company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB183 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the "Act") to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB194 | Pass | This bill makes the following changes to Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB196 | Pass | This bill amends various sections of the Delaware Uniform Commercial Code (the Act) to keep it current. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB431 | Pass | This Act requires long-term care facilities to offer the influenza vaccine to all employees with direct contact with patients. It also requires the facility to keep a record of a signed statement from each employee that the vaccine has been offered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB247 | Pass | This Act, consistent with longstanding practice throughout the State expressly recognized in the existing statute, clarifies the manner in which criminal justice agencies may inform the public of information related to arrests. In addition, this Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB351 | Pass | In December 2016, the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement issued final regulations titled "Flexibility, Efficiency, and Modernization in Child Support Enforcement Programs," 81 Fed. Reg. 93,492 (Dec. 20, 2016) (codified at 42 C.F.R ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB365 | Pass | Currently, the age for wait staff to serve alcohol to a patron is 19 years old. This Act lowers the age of persons permitted to serve alcohol from 19 to 18 years of age for all establishments licensed for the on-premises sale and consumption of alcoh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB404 | Pass | The purpose of this Act is to clarify that registered agents in Delaware are obligated to comply with requirements, standards, guidelines, rules, regulations, and procedures as issued by the Secretary of State on matters involving filings submitted t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB228 | Pass | This Act restores the Delaware Prescription Drug Payment Assistance Program (Program), which was eliminated in the Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Appropriations Act. This Act replaces Senate Bill 148 and makes the following additional changes:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB248 | Pass | This Act removes from the definition of free standing emergency departments those emergency departments that are owned by an existing, licensed hospital in this State that has already been authorized and licensed to provide emergency services. This A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB339 | Pass | This bill allows children under the age of 18 to be transferred to the Department of Corrections only after adjudication and an imposition of a sentence of incarceration. Currently, Delaware permits juveniles charged with adult offenses to be held in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB151 | Pass | Birth control use is nearly universal among women of reproductive age in the United States and is a key part of preventative health care for women. Access to birth control provides health benefits for women and children, improves women's ability ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB397 | Pass | This Act permits the Superior Court to consider petitions out of sequence where the Attorney General consents and the Court determines consideration to be in the interest of justice. To ensure this exceptional sequencing provision is employed judicio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB195 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act addresses statutes under Chapter 49 of Title 10 and (i) amends the title of section 4915 (but makes no substantive changes to the statute); and (ii) modifies section 4916 to provide that plans similar to the Delaware College Inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB234 | Pass | Currently, the ability of the Department to take licensure action (i.e., suspension, revocation, limitation) is, in certain cases, contingent upon the public school employer first taking employment action (i.e., dismissal, termination). The Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB470 | Pass | This Act would permit the Superior Court to conduct an evidentiary hearing, upon motion from the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families, before placing a child 16 years of age or older, in a secure detention facility pending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB113 | Enroll | This bill changes the earned income tax credit from nonrefundable to refundable. This bill creates a table for the percentage of earned income credit for tax years 2018 and after. Currently, if spouses file a joint federal return but separate State r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 1 NO 3 ABSENT |
| DE | HB475 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2019 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR80 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution requests the Department of Transportation and Delaware State Police examine the issue of slower traffic in the left hand lane and jointly report to the General Assembly by November 1, 2018, their recommendations, if any, fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB3 | Pass | This legislation requires that all full-time employees of the State, including employees of school districts, continuously in the employ of the state for at least one year, shall be eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave upon the birth or adoption of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB139 | Pass | This Act requires that health insurance offered in this State provide coverage for fertility care services, including in vitro fertilization ("IVF") procedures, for individuals who suffer from a disease or condition that results in the inab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
