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DESB236PassThis 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...
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2024-07-17
Signed by Governor
DEHB442PassThis 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...
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2024-07-17
Signed by Governor
DESB246Enroll
75%
For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB285PassThis bill eliminates the requirement that Justice of the Peace Court constables reside within the State of Delaware. The residency requirement was established when Constables were independent officers, and had their own bonding requirements and penal...
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB284Enroll
75%
This Act discharges balances owed by individuals ordered to pay a probation supervision fee under § 6504(14) of Title 11 of the Delaware Code or a Public Defender fee under § 4607 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code. The probation supervision fee and ...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB283Enroll
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...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB282Enroll
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...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB169Enroll
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...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB314Enroll
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) ...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB326PassThis Act appropriates $168,362,517 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB325PassThis Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Act.
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB329Enroll
75%
This Act defines United States military pension for the exclusion for taxable income.
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB327PassThis Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid recipients for Fiscal Year 2025.
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2024-06-30
Signed by Governor
DEHB411Enroll
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.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB174Enroll
75%
This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 174. Like Senate Bill No. 174, this Act adds Justices of the Peace, Commissioners in Superior Court, Family Court, and Court of Common Pleas, and Magistrates in Chancery to the State Judicial Pension Plan.
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2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB254Enroll
75%
This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
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2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DEHB347Enroll
75%
This Act entitles non-exempt Delaware Department of Transportation employees who work over 37.5 hours to be paid at time and a half.
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING
DEHB328Enroll
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...
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2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DESB20PassThe 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.
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2024-06-25
Signed by Governor
DESB212Enroll
75%
Like Senate Bill No. 212, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 212 codifies the Bureau of Health Equity (BHE) in the Division of Public Health, which includes the Office of Minority Health and the Office of Womens Health. The purpose of the BH...
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2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB272Enroll
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...
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2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB183PassThe Delaware National Guard is in need of military judges and wants to use qualified military judges who are retired from the Delaware National Guard.
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2024-06-20
Signed by Governor
DESB3FailThis Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to eliminate the limitations on when an individual may vote absentee and authorizes the General Assembly to enact general laws providing the circumstances, rules, and procedures for absentee vot...
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2024-06-13
Defeated By House. Votes: 25 YES 10 NO 6 NOT VOTING
DEHB391Intro
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Delaware relies on fees imposed as surcharges by the criminal legal system to generate revenue for government services. These criminal fees can be an unstable revenue generator, especially when there are recessions, pandemics, or other major economic...
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2024-06-13
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB337PassThis Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the LP Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
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2024-05-30
Signed by Governor
DEHB339PassThis Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the GP Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to...
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2024-05-30
Signed by Governor
DEHB336PassThis Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the LLC Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to ...
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2024-05-30
Signed by Governor
DEHB338PassThis Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the Statutory Trust Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of proposed amendments to th...
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2024-05-30
Signed by Governor
DEHB365Intro
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This Act is enabling legislation that establishes the framework and requirements for a competitive mobile sports wagering market in Delaware under the authority of the Lottery Director. Sports wagering is now legal in 38 states, and 29 states have le...
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2024-05-23
To House Appropriations Committee
DESB44Intro
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This Act establishes the Office of New Americans to help improve the lives and economic prosperity of new Americans who come to Delaware and of all Delawareans generally.
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2024-05-15
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DESB276PassThis bill names the Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper.
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2024-05-07
Signed by Governor
DESB211Engross
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This Act directs the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association to adopt javelin as an approved event for all DIAA sponsored track and field competitions.
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2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee
DEHB15PassThis Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovar...
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2024-03-21
Signed by Governor
DEHB289Intro
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Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals eligible to receive a pension under the State Employees Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $8,000. The burial benefit has not been increased sin...
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2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee
DESB46PassAccording to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year.
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2023-09-21
Signed by Governor
DEHB142PassThis 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...
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2023-09-21
Signed by Governor
DESB133PassThe Voluntary Assessment Center was created by legislative action in 1976 (60 Del. Laws Section 509) to allow recipients of minor traffic violations to pay the fine and costs associated with the violation without the need to appear in the Justice of ...
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2023-09-21
Signed by Governor
DESB83PassThis Act creates the Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund to develop opportunities for banking organizations and credit unions doing business in Delaware to better serve the needs of low to moderate income tracts in Delaware. The source of fund...
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2023-09-21
Signed by Governor
DEHB118PassDue 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...
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2023-09-20
Signed by Governor
DESB80PassSenate 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...
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2023-08-31
Signed by Governor
DESB108PassThis Act revises the State's Gold Alert Program to include missing children and increase dissemination of information to the public to better assist the State's search efforts.
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2023-08-31
Signed by Governor
DESB165PassThis 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...
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2023-08-17
Signed by Governor
DESB176PassThis Act requires that an owner be reimbursed up to $1,500 annually for veterinary care expenses paid by the owner for the care of a retired law-enforcement canine.
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2023-08-10
Signed by Governor
DESB177PassThis Act deletes the requirement in Title 31 of the Delaware Code, Section 4304, that no more than 5 commissioners or interim commissioners of the Wilmington Housing Authority be of the same political party.
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2023-08-09
Signed by Governor
DEHB80PassThis 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...
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2023-08-09
Signed by Governor
DEHB218PassThis Act changes the composition of the Commission and further clarifies the definition of veterans as it pertains to this Section of Title 29. The Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs is comprised of members, appointed by the Governor, who repres...
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2023-08-09
Signed by Governor
DEHB205PassThis 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...
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2023-08-07
Signed by Governor
DEHB206PassThis Act revamps the Council on Police Training, by changing the name of the Council to the Police Officer Standards and Training Commission (or POST) and amending its powers and duties to: (1) more accurately reflect the dual role of establishing tr...
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2023-08-07
Signed by Governor
DEHB85PassThis Act creates a special license plate for retired state legislators. This Act shall be known as "The Senator Margaret Rose Henry Act".
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2023-08-03
Signed by Governor
DEHB183PassThis 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:
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2023-07-31
Signed by Governor
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