Delaware Senator Bryan Townsend [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
DE	SB197	Engross 50%	This Act revises State procurement rules to require that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in the development of new landscaped a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-12 Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
DE	SCR119	Engross 50%	This concurrent resolution establishes the Student Behavior and School Climate Task Force. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-12 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SCR122	Engross 50%	This resolution designates the week of March 11 through March 15, 2024, as Civic Learning Week in the State of Delaware to encourage schools and civic organizations to hold educational programs regarding civic duty and urge Delawareans to reflect upo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-12 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SB122	Pass	This Act authorizes the Office of the Child Advocate and Office of the Investigation Coordinator to provide child victim data and information to the Office of Investigative Services during presentence investigations of defendants convicted of felony ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 Signed by Governor
DE	SB121	Pass	This Act codifies that the Child Protection Accountability Commission, in conjunction with the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families, is responsible for developing, maintaining, and conducting child abuse mandatory reporting,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 Signed by Governor
DE	SCR118	Engross 50%	This resolution recognizes March 7, 2024, as "Delaware Giving Day." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	HB330	Intro 25%	This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 To House Administration Committee
DE	HCR86	Engross 50%	This resolution recognizes the Easterseals/CAI Volleyball Challenge occurring March 9 at William Penn High School and April 20 at Delaware State University, an event that raises funds for an organization providing services and support to Delawareans ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DE	SB188	Engross 50%	This Act enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC). The Council of State Governments partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-06 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 13 On Its Merits
DE	HCR87	Engross 50%	This Concurrent Resolution recognizes Ramadan and Muslim residents of this State as they observe Ramadan. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-06 Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT
DE	SCR106	Engross 50%	This Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 5, 2024, as Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated or Alpha Phi Alpha Day at the Capitol in Delaware. It honors Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated as an organization that has provided a voice and a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-05 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SB217	Intro 25%	This Act creates a professional loan-to-grant incentive program to encourage Delawareans to pursue careers in nursing at long-term care facilities. Funding for the incentive program is to be appropriated annually by the General Assembly, in an amount... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-26 To Senate Education Committee
DE	SCR116	Engross 50%	This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes February 29, 2024, as "Rare Disease Day" in Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SB225	Intro 25%	This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 To Senate Finance Committee
DE	SB226	Intro 25%	This Act appropriates $91,776,567 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 To Senate Finance Committee
DE	HB325	Intro 25%	This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 To House Capital Infrastructure Committee
DE	SCR113	Engross 50%	This Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership and achievements of African Americans and urges the celebration of Black History Month. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-25 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SB187	Engross 50%	This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Onc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits
DE	HCR82	Engross 50%	This concurrent resolution designates January 21-27, 2024 as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists' (CRNA) Week in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DE	HCR83	Engross 50%	This concurrent resolution designates the week of February 11-17, 2024, as Children of Alcoholics Week and calls upon Delawareans to break the silence and talk to their family and friends about alcoholism. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DE	SCR110	Engross 50%	This concurrent resolution designates February 2024 as Career and Technical Education Month in the State of Delaware to urge all citizens to become familiar with the services and benefits offered by the career and technical education programs in thei... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	HCR79	Engross 50%	This concurrent resolution hereby designates January 23, 2024 as Maternal Health Awareness Day in the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NOT VOTING
DE	HCR78	Engross 50%	This Concurrent Resolution provides for a Joint Session of the House of Representatives and the Senate to be convened for the purpose of hearing an address by the Honorable John C. Carney, Governor of the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-17 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DE	SB106	Enroll 75%	This Act modernizes and expands the concept of maternal mental health by replacing the definition of maternal depression with the more encompassing definition of perinatal mood and anxiety disorder. This Act contemplates treatment for any caregiver w... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-11 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 ABSENT
DE	SR17	Engross 50%	This Senate Resolution recognizes the We Are The Moms Foundation for its contributions toward raising awareness of firearm violence in the State of Delaware and providing support to victims families. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-11 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DE	SCR107	Engross 50%	This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership, achievements, and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and urges all citizens of the First State to participate fittingly in the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Da... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-11 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	HCR76	Engross 50%	This resolution directs the Delaware Department of Human Resources to publish a report detailing hiring and promotional practices, specifying jobs requiring degrees, outlining findings from the 18-month review of state positions, and providing insigh... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-11 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DE	SCR105	Engross 50%	This Concurrent Resolution extends the reporting date of the Victims Bill of Rights Committee from January 15, 2024 to March 1, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-10 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	SB4	Intro 25%	This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 4. Like Senate Bill No. 4 this Act does the following: [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-09 To Senate Finance Committee
DE	HCR80	Enroll 75%	This concurrent resolution expresses the State of Delaware General Assemblys concern for the loss of life in the Israel-Hamas war and calls on the legislature and the citizens of Delaware to recognize our common humanity and the shared strength of ou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-09 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 3 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT
DE	HB278	Intro 25%	This Act requires that a train or light engine used to move freight by railroad have a crew of at least 2 individuals. Violation of this statute subjects the railroad to a $500 fine for a first offense, and a $1,000 fine for a second or subsequent of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-09 To House Transportation Committee
DE	SCR103	Engross 50%	This Resolution establishes the Delaware Aquaculture Task Force. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-09 Passed In House by Voice Vote
DE	HB168	Intro 25%	Substitute 1 to HB 168 applies the lodging tax to short-term rentals and requires an accommodations intermediary to obtain an occupational license and pay an annual licensing fee of $25.00. This bill defines an accommodations intermediary as a person... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-04 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 168
DE	HB186	Pass	This Act makes changes to the requirements for placement on the sex offender registry of individuals who are adjudicated delinquent of certain offenses. First, it reduces the number of offenses for which placement on the sex offender registry is mand... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-10-18 Signed by Governor
DE	HB229	Pass	This Act removes the required window for submission of a final plan from the Redding Consortium to the State Board of Education and instead requires that the State Board act on any plan submitted by the Redding Consortium within 3 months. It also all... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-10-13 Signed by Governor
DE	SB6	Pass	In 1682 or 1683, the Sussex County Court, created by William Penn, created the land grant that is the subject of this Act (Warner Grant). As this Act describes, the Warner Grant consists of land in and adjacent to the City of Lewes largely consisting... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	SB123	Pass	This Act provides that any adult day care facility required to be licensed under Chapter 1 of Title 16 is subject to the existing reporting obligations for facilities under Subchapter III of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	HB142	Pass	This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	SB125	Pass	In December 2022, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 151st General Assembly in 2022 or a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	HB151	Pass	This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adults access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible prope... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	SB67	Pass	This Act updates the crime of official misconduct to ensure appropriate accountability of public servants who abuse their positions of power and public trust. The statute establishes a grade in the penalty for the official misconduct to be commensura... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	SB36	Pass	This Act provides a definition for 911 Dispatchers. While referenced in other sections of the Code, including being identified as a first responder in § 4319 of Title 11 for purposes of confidentiality of communications by first responders for criti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	HB118	Pass	Due to continuing concerns over the negative health effects secondhand smoke will have on the youth of Delaware, this bill adds Smoking Restrictions within vehicles if a person under the age of eighteen (18) is in the vehicle. Also, it makes clear th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-20 Signed by Governor
DE	SB184	Pass	Research has shown that certain underwriting factors used by insurers, while facially neutral, may have a disparate impact on protected classes. This bill seeks to address this disparate impact by prohibiting certain underwriting and rating factors, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-14 Signed by Governor
DE	HB73	Pass	This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 73 provides a 5-year statute of limitations for the Department of Labor to bring civil actions to recover nonfraud overpayment debts and no period of limitations to recover fraud overpayment debts. This port... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-14 Signed by Governor
DE	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
DE	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
DE	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
DE	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
DE	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