| DE | HB179 | Intro | This Act permits State employees who are employed by the Delaware State Police or Delaware Capitol Police and work in a variety of job titles, all of which are more commonly referred to as "9-1-1 operators," to retire at 25 years without an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-28
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | SB131 | Intro | This Act requires that a board or commission created after the effective date of this Act submit the initial adopted rules and regulations pertaining to the licensure, maintenance, and standards of the board or commission to the Joint Legislative Ove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-27
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HCR43 | Engross | This resolution proclaims June 19, 2017, as Juneteenth Independence Day in Delaware and encourages the people of Delaware to reflect upon the significant roles and many contributions of African Americans and to celebrate this day with appropriate act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
Introduced in House |
| DE | SB122 | Engross | This Act fulfills recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Overview and Sunset Committee (JLOSC) by making amendments to the State Human Relations Commissions (the Commission) governing statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
[Hearing: Jun 29 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| DE | SB116 | Intro | This bill creates a 3-year exemption for public school construction from prevailing wage requirements. Also the public school will prepare cost study comparison reports for the Controller General's Office to compile and report to the General Asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | HB209 | Intro | This Act is meant to prohibit the practice of waiving certain sections of the Delaware Code year after year through the use of epilogue language in the budget bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB101 | Enroll | Every year, over 100 million animals are used as subjects of scientific and medical research, as well as for educational purposes. As recently as 2015, over 19,000 cats and over 61,000 dogs were used in research. In Delaware in 2015, 82 cats and 85 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB99 | Engross | This legislation eliminates front footage calculations as the sole method of collecting sewer assessments for county sewer users. It provides a broad list of possible methods of determining the amount of the sewer assessment for each property, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB105 | Enroll | Persons under age 18 must wear a helmet when operating or riding as a passenger on a bicycle, motorized skateboard or scooter, all terrain vehicle (ATV), off-highway vehicle (OHV), or electric personal assistive mobility device (EPAMD). See Title 21 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
[Hearing: Jun 29 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB104 | Intro | This Act sets the minimum educational courses for each grade. It does not set the curriculum for these courses or how they will be presented within the classrooms. The life skills program replaces the half credit currently listed as part of the 3 1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB200 | Engross | This bill sets a minimum reimbursement rate for home health care nursing services paid for by Medicaid-contracted organizations. The rate shall be at least equal to the rate set by the Division of Medicaid for equivalent services. Home care nurses an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB191 | Enroll | This act amends the Charter of the Town of Laurel so that the Mayor and members of the Town Council are only paid for meetings which they attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB192 | Intro | This bill creates a special license plate for emergency medical services professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | HB198 | Intro | Delaware law currently prohibits sampling and sale of craft beer, distilled spirits, and wine at Farmers Markets or Agricultural Themed Events. The bill's intent is to sample, taste, offer limited purchase opportunities, and promote how local cra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| DE | SB102 | Engross | This Act consolidates Delaware law related to child abuse and child sexual abuse training and detection, suicide prevention, bullying, criminal youth gang detection, and teen dating violence and sexual assault into one subchapter of Chapter 41, Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB89 | Intro | This Act is modeled after American Laws for American Courts legislation that has passed in Tennessee, Louisiana, Arizona, Kansas, South Dakota, Alabama, and North Carolina. The Declaration of Independence announced the formation of a new country that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-22
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB88 | Intro | This Act requires Senate confirmation of the 11 members of the SEU Oversight Board. This Act also makes a technical correction to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-22
To Senate Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | SB85 | Intro | According to data provided by the Delaware Department of Education (DOE), thousands of Delaware students receive out-of-school suspensions each year for minor infractions, such as being unprepared or late for class, dress code violations, and disresp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HCR31 | Engross | This resolution recognizes the month of May as "Poppy Month" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
Introduced in House |
| DE | HB186 | Intro | The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also referred to as the food stamp program, assists eligible low-income individuals with the purchase of food. This Act, known as the Delaware Nutritional Improvement Act, seeks to bring the Suppl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SB84 | Engross | This Act makes consistent the amount of time that the Court "looks back" to determine if the current offense is a second offense for the purposes of sentencing. This Act applies to Traffic offenses, but it would not be applicable to DUI cas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-17
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB170 | Intro | This legislation, the Angel Investor Job Creation and Innovation Act for Small Technology Companies, creates an incentive for qualified angel investors to invest capital in qualified Delaware small technology companies..
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-10
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| DE | HCR6 | Engross | Seeking to address the pervasive problems of littering and illegal dumping in Delaware, this concurrent resolution would create the Delaware Anti-Dumping and Anti-Littering Solutions Task Force. The task force would be charged with developing actiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
Introduced in House |
| DE | SB75 | Engross | This Act updates Delaware's human trafficking crime to prohibit the same acts that are included in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-02
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB74 | Enroll | This Act fulfills recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee. First, this Act adds language to establish the circumstances under which Trustees of the Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation may be remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
[Hearing: Jun 29 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| DE | HB150 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware African and Caribbean Affairs Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-25
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB61 | Engross | This Act clarifies the authority of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("Committee") to hold over entities unless or until certain conditions are met or modifications are made. This Act also provides the authority for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| DE | SB39 | Enroll | This Act is the result of the recommendation made by the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee in its review of the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline ("the Board") that the Division of Professional Regulation amend applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| DE | SB37 | Intro | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would require the same super-majority vote to amend a provision that results in the act's expiration on a certain date, also known as a "sunset" provision, as was required to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB70 | Enroll | Under current educational standards, students are no longer required to be taught cursive writing and many schools have abandoned teaching cursive writing to students. As cursive writing is still an imperative skill in many professions, this bill mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SCR4 | Engross | Designating February 6, 2017 as "Ronald Reagan Day" in Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-26
Introduced in Senate |
| DE | SB21 | Pass | This bill vests the authority for regulating seed in Delaware with the Delaware Department of Agriculture and repeals any inconsistent act or parts of acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-26
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| DE | HB53 | Intro | This bill allows ground-based and hand-held sparklers and certain other nonexplosive, nonairborne novelty items regulated by the federal government to be sold and used in the State. The bill does not legalize firecrackers, bottle rockets, aerials, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-25
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | SB18 | Intro | This Act requires public schools to begin their school year after Labor Day. There have been many economic impact reports done that show a positive impact from starting public schools after Labor Day. A report by the Virginia Hospitality and Travel A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB46 | Intro | Currently the law requires that any person convicted of a crime identified under the section identifying sexual offenses, or offenses relating to children and incompetents must submit to DNA testing. The DNA testing is compiled and stored in the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | SB9 | Intro | This Act is intended to implement the recommendations in the December 9, 2015 Report of the Work A Day Earn A Pay Task Force. The Act will create a Work A Day Earn A Pay Public Works Jobs Program in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | SB14 | Intro | This Act eliminates the Delaware Compensation Commission in its entirety and makes necessary changes to the Delaware Code as a result.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB35 | Enroll | This bill sets forth a framework for the licensing, regulation and inspection of business establishments that provide massage and bodywork services. This bill places oversight of any business offering massage services in the hands of the Board of Mas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) Committee |
| DE | SB12 | Pass | This Act explicitly allows ground effect lighting equipment on motorcycles. This extra lighting would increase motorcycle safety by enhancing their visibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | HJR2 | Pass | This joint resolution rejects the report of the Delaware Compensation Commission in its entirety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB33 | Intro | This bill adds the Department of Correction, Bureau of Prisons and Bureau of Community Corrections' vehicles to the list of "authorized emergency vehicles" identified in Chapter 41 of Title 21 that are afforded certain privileges when r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | HB32 | Pass | This act amends the Charter of the Town of Laurel to allow for tax abatements for a five year period on all improvements of properties, for all zoned properties, located within the Downtown Development District and establishing the condition that all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB31 | Pass | This bill authorizes the use of prize-linked savings accounts in the State of Delaware. These accounts have been used in a number of countries and several U.S. states to promote savings, especially among persons with low-income and first-time savers....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB27 | Intro | Subchapter III, Chapter 68, Title 7 of the Delaware Code (Subchapter III) was originally enacted in 1982. In 1996, President Clinton signed the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, 42 U.S.C. ยง 1791 (Bill Emerson Act). The Bill Emerson Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-05
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
