| DE | SR44 | Engross | This Senate Resolution pays tribute to Delaware's senior senator, Harris B. McDowell, III, upon his retirement from the Senate after some 44 years of exemplary service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB240 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2021 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR3 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR2 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB260 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SR32 | Engross | This Senate Resolution pays tribute and extends a fond farewell to Secretary of the Senate Joy C. Bower upon her retirement after 32 years of distinguished service to the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB194 | Enroll | This Act removes the requirement that applicants for a marriage license state their race as part of the application process. Delaware is one of a small number of states that currently requires this information. In October 2019, the United States Dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB169 | Enroll | This Act adopts the Uniform Civil Remedies for Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act. This Act addresses an increasingly common form of abuse that can cause severe and often irreversible harm: the disclosure of private, sexually explicit ima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB358 | Intro | Delaware received significant funding from the federal government under the CARES Act to address economic harm caused by the Covid-19 public health emergency. This Act recognizes the undue economic harm small businesses faced during the State of Emer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB359 | Intro | This Act is intended to make it easier for businesses and homeowner associations to open their doors and their community facilities without fear of facing frivolous negligence lawsuits from customers, patrons or facility users.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB201 | Enroll | This Act makes additional technical changes to Senate Bill No. 122 and Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 122. The Senate Substitute unanimously passed both chambers during the 1st Session of the 150th General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB223 | Enroll | This Act brings Delaware into compliance with the federal No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act by creating a lifetime disqualification for a commercial diver license if the individual engages in human trafficking while using a motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB318 | Enroll | This Act requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a curriculum on the Holocaust and genocide for students in grades 6 through 12. Teaching the lessons learned from the Holocaust and other genocides helps cultivate the spirit of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB241 | Intro | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 9 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB297 | Enroll | This Act amends the City of Seaford's Charter (Charter) as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB232 | Intro | This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines yard waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | SB221 | Intro | Under current law, only a premises that qualifies as a restaurant or is operated by a not-for-profit group may allow customers to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | SB216 | Intro | In almost every mass murder that has occurred in the United States over the past 2 decades, subsequent investigations have revealed that the perpetrator had displayed what have become known as red flag indicators which, if known, identified, and repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | HB330 | Intro | This bill limits the Governor's authority to continue a state of emergency by requiring the General Assembly to adopt and set the time period for continuing the state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-24
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB96 | Pass | In January of 2015, the Office of Civil Rights & Public Trust was created by the Attorney General to establish a centralized office within the Department of Justice for the investigation of matters concerning civil rights enforcement and the pros...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB207 | Engross | This Act prohibits the import, export, sale, transport, distribution, or propagation of any plant identified by the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, with the advice of the Delaware Native Species Commission, as an invasive plant. This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| DE | HB294 | Intro | Most commonly, persons accused of subsection (a) of this section panhandling are homeless. Transferring such matters to the Court of Common Pleas allows persons so accused increased access to social services not available to them at the Justice of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Amendment HA 1 to HB 294 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB215 | Intro | On November 3, 2015, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report titled "Elevated Rates of Urban Firearm Violence and Opportunities for Prevention Wilmington, Delaware" in which the CDC made 2 majo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| DE | HB295 | Intro | This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headligh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | HB296 | Intro | This bill increases the amount that a tenant may deduct from rent in order to have necessary work done on the rental premises if the landlord fails to repair or maintain the premises after proper notice. The original amount of $200 was selected at th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB293 | Intro | This bill requires a landlord to provide 15 days notice to a single room tenant prior to the termination of a rental agreement for any reason other than a material violation. This notice provision ensures that the tenant has time to find suitable hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB126 | Engross | This Act expands eligibility for Line-of-Duty disability benefits to paid firefighters who work for municipal fire departments and to fire service instructors and fire marshals who work for the State and for nonphysical disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB284 | Intro | This legislation allows the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs to employ the spouses of veterans and retains the stipulation that the Executive Director of the Commission must be a veteran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 13 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB211 | Intro | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag is a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars 36. U.S.C. § 902.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB36 | Intro | This Act adds testifying at a hearing held by a standing committee of the House of Representatives or Senate or joint committee of the General Assembly within the definition of swears falsely, which applies to Delawares perjury laws. This addition me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB165 | Intro | This Act recognizes the importance of sibling relationships to promote continuity and sustain family relationships for children in foster care by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB204 | 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] | 2020-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB37 | Intro | This act restores the $500 senior real property tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Amendment HA 1 to HB 37 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HCR67 | Engross | This House Concurrent Resolution proclaims January 23, 2020, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR66 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution requests that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance study the extension of Medicaid coverage through the first year postpartum. Insurance coverage is a critical factor in determining women's access to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB282 | Intro | This bill is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment to require a 3/5 vote of each House of the General Assembly to enact a law that would enable a county to enact a tax or increase a tax rate above a rate currently authorized by state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB205 | Intro | This Act requires that a former foster parent of a child be considered a preferential placement option for a child when the child is placed for adoption less than 13 months after the end of the foster placement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB203 | Intro | This Act makes children with disabilities who attend homeschools eligible to receive speech language pathology and audiology services in the same manner as students who attend private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB270 | Intro | Stands operated by children that serve or sell lemonade or other nonalcoholic beverages on a temporary, occasional basis are a summertime tradition for many children. This Act exempts a stand operated by a child from State, county, and municipal regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-12
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB160 | Intro | This Act makes it unlawful to cause yard waste to be swept, raked, blown, or otherwise placed in a roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | 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 |
| DE | SB121 | Pass | This Act makes necessary changes to Delawares election laws based on the States purchase of new voting devices and establishes auditing requirements for the voting devices. The new voting devices will function differently than the existing voting dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB5 | Pass | This Act addresses the serious problem of individuals dumping large quantities of trash on public and private property, by:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB74 | Pass | This bill enables a key component of the Take Care Delaware program, a partnership between law enforcement and schools to adopt a trauma-informed approach to children who have been identified at the scene of a traumatic event. The Take Care Delaware ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB137 | Pass | This Act creates the crimes of unlawful possession of a drug masking product, punishable as a class A misdemeanor, and unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of a drug masking product, punishable as a class E felony. Drug masking products are desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB163 | Pass | Individuals who volunteer their services through stand-alone EMS companies have been a valuable part of public safety to the citizens of the State of Delaware. To try to bolster the ranks of these volunteers, this bill exempts anyone applying for mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB75 | Pass | This Act makes the following changes to provisions required in life insurance policies issued in this State:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
