| DE | SB238 | Pass | This Act adds "victim of kidnapping" to the definition section of the Address Confidentiality Act, allowing for kidnapping victims to become eligible for the protections offered by the Address Confidentiality Program. This amendment is reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB281 | Pass | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA) Task Force (Task Force). The 152nd Delaware General Assembly passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 establishing the Task Force to study and make findings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB215 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB310 | Pass | The United States Space Force was established on December 20, 2019 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The Space Force became the 6th branch of the United States Armed Forces. This Act inserts the Space Force in those sections of the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB333 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Commission. This Commission shall be tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly and Department of Technology and Information on AI utilization and safety within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB236 | Pass | This bill: (a) extends the expiration date for any new issuance or renewal of an ADA placard from 3 years to 8 years for a specific person with a diagnosis of a permanent disability and changing the minimum age from 85 to 80 years or older, (b) exten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB442 | Pass | This Act creates the Affordable Housing Production Task Force (Task Force). The purpose and mission of the Task Force is to investigate and make findings and rcommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on how the State and local governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB264 | Enroll
75% | This Act makes the crime of patronizing a prostitute a class E felony rather than a misdemeanor where the person from whom prostitution is sought is a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB298 | Enroll
75% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees (JLOSC) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (Commission), whose purpose is to improve the response to and redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SJR4 | Enroll
75% | This Joint Resolution directs the Division of Motor Vehicles to opt into the FMCSAs federal exemption that allows for first time CDL applicants seeking a school bus only endorsement on their drivers license. An applicants school bus only endorsement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB22 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB283 | Enroll
75% | This Act repeals the DELJIS Fund fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of this fee was recommended by the Criminal Legal System Imposed Debt Study Group created by House Bill 244, as amended by House Amendment No 2, of the 151st General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB282 | Enroll
75% | This Act repeals the Senior Trust Fund Fee, the Interstate Compact Fee, and the Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Treatment, Education and Prevention Fund Fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of these fees was recommended by the Crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB169 | Enroll
75% | This Act creates the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Service Act. The Act provides compensation and reintegration services to individuals who have served sentences of incarceration, wrongful incarceration in a psychiatric institution, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB289 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends Title 16, Chapter 76 of the Delaware Code relating to energy conservation identified in county and municipal building and plumbing codes. Consistent with codes in other States, including New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, among o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB423 | Enroll
75% | This Act permits a farm winery to apply for a license for use of a portion of the farm winery premises as a restaurant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB419 | Enroll
75% | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB329 | Enroll
75% | This Act defines United States military pension for the exclusion for taxable income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB314 | Enroll
75% | This Act removes supervision from the scope of practice of a masters social worker. This Act also prohibits a masters social worker from providing supervision to a licensed clinical social worker applicant. The Board of Social Work Examiners (Board) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB270 | Pass | This Act is the statutory recognition of the recommendations set forth in the June 2, 2023, report of the DEFAC Benchmark Evaluation and Review Panel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB475 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR206 | Fail | This Senate Concurrent Resolution establishes the Delaware Restoring the Family Unit Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 12 NO 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB444 | Enroll
75% | This Act designates the Orange Crush as the State cocktail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB411 | Enroll
75% | This bill seeks to amend sections of Chapter 66 concerning the members of Delaware Volunteer Fire Departments. This bill will hold current members to the same standards as applicants with relation to criminal activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB282 | Veto | This Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Enacted into Law |
| DE | HB366 | Enroll
75% | This Act sunsets the Technology Investment Council ("TIC"). The Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("JLOSC") reviewed TIC in 2022 and, as a result of the review, JLOSC sponsored House Bill No. 357 of the 151st Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB368 | Enroll
75% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Provider Advisory Board ("Board"). Based on its findings, JLOSC recommended sunsetting the Board, which is addressed in sep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB198 | Enroll
75% | This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB367 | Enroll
75% | This Act sunsets the Provider Advisory Board (Board) and is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Board. The Board was created in 2011 at JLOSC's recommendation when it reviewed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB393 | Enroll
75% | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of Adult Protective Services ("APS"). JLOSC approved recommendations to modify several areas of the APS statute, Chapter 39 of Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB396 | Enroll
75% | This Bill amends the Charter of the Town of Delmar in multiple respects. In Section 7 of the Charter, which involves Nominations and Elections, every person over the age of 18 years who has resided in the town for 30 days prior to the election will b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB398 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends the City of Seaford Charter to remove the section regarding Fire Department Appropriations, specifically, the City Council's authority to set aside or appropriate up to ten percent of real estate taxes to provide for and maintain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB418 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends the Town of Laurel Charter to allow for an increase in the permitted late fee charged for unpaid taxes from three percent (3%) to five percent (5%) per annum for each month such taxes remain unpaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB426 | Enroll
75% | This Act ensures that pregnant women in DOC custody, at Level IV or V, are able to meet with a doula or midwife to create a birth plan surrounding the birth of their child. Among other things, the birth plan must include a statement identifying a pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB254 | Enroll
75% | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SCR200 | Engross
50% | Because of the serious consequences of the drug overdose epidemic, this Senate Concurrent Resolution respectfully requests a report from the Delaware Department of Education to follow up on the recommendations contained in the 154-page Delaware Drug ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB281 | Pass | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | SB197 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR156 | Engross
50% | This Resolution urges the State of Maryland to allow the sale of certified Delaware sod in Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR196 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes July 18, 2024, as the 50th anniversary of the Victims Compensation Assistance Program in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB328 | Enroll
75% | Senate Bill No. 288 of the 151st General Assembly (Chapter 371 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware) created a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use pulsating headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB202 | Enroll
75% | For claims for line of duty death benefits for covered persons, which include police officers, firefighters, auxiliary and volunteer ambulance and rescue company members, paramedics, and others, submitted on July 1, 2023, and thereafter, this Act inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB20 | Pass | The primary purpose of this Act is to remove the requirement that a public school district employee who donates leave to another employee must donate 2 days of leave for the other employee to receive 1 day of leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB16 | Enroll
75% | The governance of this State relies on the qualifications and performance of the members of the Governors cabinet. The General Assembly finds that the confirmation process is an important step to ensure the qualifications and performance of the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SB272 | Enroll
75% | Pharmacists in Delaware provide some of the same medical services as physicians, advance practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, including immunizations. The General Assembly has recently added to the services that pharmacists may provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB191 | Intro
25% | This Act generally requires a student athlete to compete for athletic teams or in sports associated with their biological sex, as determined at or near birth and based on the students birth certificate or other government record if a birth certificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SCR191 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution proclaims October 6, 2024, as National Coaches Day in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB265 | Engross
50% | This act requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally provides pornography and other materials defined as harmful to minors to verify the age of individuals accessing the material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SCR100 | Fail | This resolution is an application for a Convention of the States under Article V of the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 6 YES 5 NO 7 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR177 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution proclaims Wednesday, June 12, 2024, as Women Veterans Day in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
