| 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 | HB250 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for the University of Delaware Athletics Community and Campus Recreation to promote and support the University of Delaware Athletics Community and Campus Recreations mission to provide meaningful learning exp...
[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 | 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 | HCR84 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution extends the due date of the findings and recommendations report of the Firearm Definition Task Force from January 5, 2024, to March 8, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| 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 | HB266 | Intro
25% | This Act adds wages earned as a result of required additional work hours to the definition of compensation for purposes of calculating pensions in the County and Municipal Police/Firefighter Pension Plan. Currently such mandatory ordered additional w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB185 | Pass | This legislation prioritizes recruitment and retention of State employees by removing the 3-month waiting period for the state to pay its share of premium or subscription charges for health care coverage under § 5202 of Title 29 for benefit eligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB167 | Pass | This Act establishes a wellness program designed to improve the well-being of first responders and first responders immediate family members, as well as civilian employees of police, fire, and emergency medical services agencies and their immediate f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB46 | Pass | According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year.
[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 | 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 | HB188 | Pass | This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, pr...
[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 | HB154 | Pass | This bill creates the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. The Act delineates a consumers personal data rights and provides that residents of this State will have the right to know what information is being collected about them, see the information, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB80 | Pass | Senate Bill No. 80 codifies the current practice in Delaware of not requiring proof of citizenship or a specific immigration status on an application for a professional license. By affirmatively providing eligibility for professional licenses regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB227 | Pass | This Act makes various amendments to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to improve compliance with its testing and reporting requirements. First, this Act requires physicians to take a training program every 2 years relating to the provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB138 | Pass | This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB51 | Pass | This Act prohibits food establishments from providing consumers with ready-to-eat food or beverages in polystyrene foam containers or with single-service plastic coffee stirrers, cocktail picks, or sandwich picks. It also prohibits food establishment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB202 | Pass | This Act limits those individuals who may possess a firearm at a polling place on an Election Day to the following: (1) law enforcement officers, (2) commissioned security guards acting in their official capacity, (3) constables acting in their offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB201 | Pass | As of April 4, 2023, 74 people have been killed or injured by guns in schools this year in 13 separate school shootings. School shootings hit a record high in 2022 with 46 shootings, surpassing 2021s record of 42 shootings. In 2022, 43,450 children e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB165 | Pass | This Act amends Chapter 25, Title 24 of the Delaware Code relating to the Practice of Pharmacy. The amendments authorize pharmacists to engage in collaborative pharmacy practice with one or more practitioners meaning individuals who are authorized by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB160 | Pass | The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 established 988 as the universal phone number for "the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline." Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB52 | Pass | This Act directs the States current needle exchange program to take a needs-based approach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB80 | Pass | This Act requires that doula services be covered by Medicaid in Delaware by January 1, 2024. It follows up on HB 343 from the 151st General Assembly which required the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to submit a plan for implementing this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB62 | Pass | This Act requires that each county reassess the value of real property in the county at least once every 5 years. The first 5-year period starts when the reassessment currently being conducted by each county is completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB205 | Pass | This Act makes a number of revisions to the Law-Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights in Title 11 of the Delaware Code. It adds part-time officers to the coverage of the chapter. It distinguishes between formal investigations and informal inquiries, bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB99 | Pass | This Act, known as the Delaware Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023, follows the issuance of Delawares Climate Action Plan in 2021, and establishes a statutory target of greenhouse gas emissions reductions over the medium and long term to mitigate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB170 | Pass | This Act directs the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to work with PJM Interconnection, LLC to study the transmission impacts of offshore wind development, to work with neighboring states on offshore wind transmission, and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB182 | Pass | Sections 1 through 6 of this Act revise the State's existing child abuse laws as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB183 | Pass | This Act revises the existing crime of endangering the welfare of a child by providing or permitting a child to consume or inhale unprescribed controlled substances in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB124 | Pass | This Act clarifies when reports of child abuse or neglect, including suspected human trafficking of a child, are required to be made orally to the Departments report line and when they may be made via the Departments online reporting portal. This Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB61 | Pass | Teachers and other school employees (school employees) do not accrue annual leave that can be used on a flexible basis. Under current law, school employees may only use 3 days of sick leave for personal reasons and may be absent for 5 days after the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB60 | Pass | To prevent Delawareans from facing exorbitant costs for potentially life-saving screenings and follow-up tests, and to allow providers to use clinical judgement in the use of breast cancer examination tools based on established national standards, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB1 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 1. Like Senate Bill No. 1, this Act creates a right to representation for tenants in evictions and other landlord-tenant actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB184 | Pass | Delaware law expressly prohibits employment discrimination based upon surviving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Such discrimination includes: (1) failing or refusing to hire or discharging an employee because the individual was a vict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB9 | Pass | Although lead-based paint is prevalent in many Delaware residences and causes extraordinary neurological damage in children, including seizures, behavioral disorders, developmental delays, and cognitive disabilities, Delaware does not have a comprehe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB81 | Pass | This statutory addition to Delawares Wrongful Death Act will permit the spouse, parents, children, and siblings of a deceased person to recover punitive damages when the actions resulting in the death of another person were maliciously intended or th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB65 | Pass | According to the Mayo Clinic, miscarriages occur in about 20% of all pregnancies, and generally, in the first 12 weeks. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 out of every 100 American pregnancies ends in stillbirth. Black women have a signi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB94 | Pass | The expectation for speed enforcement, under Delaware's Motor Vehicle statute, are Delaware's law enforcement agencies. It is not always possible for law enforcement officers to effectively enforce the speed limitations due to a number of fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB178 | Pass | This Act updates the makeup and duties of the Council of Apprenticeship and Training to meet the current needs of the DOL, the apprenticeship workforce, and employers. It clarifies the duties of the Council, the membership of the Council, and term li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HR19 | Intro
25% | This resolution recognizes the month of October 2023 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB71 | Pass | This Act requires law-enforcement agencies, the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, and the Department of Justice to report suspected animal cruelty to the Office of Animal Welfare that is discovered while performing their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
