| DE | HB281 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 3:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB282 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 3:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB260 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. The current process for promulgating DIAA-related regulations grants the regulatory authority to the Department of Education ("D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB87 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes the Delaware Agricultural Production Assistance Program. The Program will provide a subsidy of up to 30% of the premium for eligible producers multi-peril crop insurance premium, or whole farm revenue protection premium up to a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB202 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-23
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB221 | Intro
25% | This Act provides that the next of kin of a deceased police officer, member of a fire department, or member of the Delaware National Guard is entitled to a Delaware state flag if the deceased person served in at least 1 qualifying entity for at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Amendment SA 2 to SS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB382 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB274 | Intro
25% | Affordable housing is key to building strong communities and neighborhoods. This act provides that the developer of a residential subdivision is provided a percentage credit towards the expense of offsite improvements to state-maintained highways con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB276 | Engross
50% | This bill names the Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB293 | Engross
50% | Federal and Delaware law protect the right to vote and the rights of individuals with disabilities to have equal access to voting places and public facilities. Nonetheless, recent information suggests that a substantial number of polling places in De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB245 | Intro
25% | The Constitution of the State of Delaware creates 3 branches of State Government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, each having certain delineated responsibilities or powers within a framework that limits and separates the powers of each bra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| DE | HB323 | Intro
25% | This Act expands the crime of criminal mischief to include damaging an authorized emergency vehicle, defining them as vehicles of a fire department, fire company, police vehicles, ambulances, as well as vehicles used by a fire chief, chief engineer, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB349 | Intro
25% | This bill codifies that the Superior Court Veterans Treatment Court is a qualified rehabilitation program under § 4177D of Title 21 of the Delaware Code for persons seeking to have their driver's licenses reinstated after a DUI. This Act makes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB164 | Engross
50% | This Act allows for correctional officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days following its enactment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB198 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB238 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB359 | Intro
25% | This Act expands the protections offered to consumers under the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act by applying the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act to the State government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB215 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB303 | Intro
25% | This Act modifies the eligibility standard from 100% disability to 80% disability or greater for veterans to qualify for the credit against taxation on qualified property and corrects a typographical error.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB328 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB15 | Pass | This 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB149 | Intro
25% | This Act requires personal income tax brackets to be annually adjusted for cost-of-living increases. This will prevent tax rate increases resulting from cost-of-living pay increases that push lower income taxpayers into higher tax brackets. This is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Not Enough Signatures to Release |
| DE | SB241 | Pass | This bill expands the timeframe in which a candidate may withdraw from the presidential primary election, including the option of not holding such an election in the event of only one remaining candidate. The approximate cost of a Presidential Primar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB218 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that states that the power to tax should be limited and reserved solely for the purpose of financing necessary and essential governmental programs and operations and for no other purpose. The un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB20 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB197 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB272 | Intro
25% | This act regulates persons who receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits earned by serving our nation in the military. This bill would not prohibit persons or business entities from receiving compensation for advice t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB341 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB201 | Intro
25% | Of the 41 states with a state income tax, 27 states fully exempt military retirement pay from state income taxes and 12 states partially exempt military retirement pay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Amendment SA 1 to SB 201 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB224 | Intro
25% | This Act removes private schools from the Safe School Zone law enacted last year, Chapter 175 of Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware (House Bill No. 201, 152nd General Assembly).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB20 | Intro
25% | This Act enhances the General Assemblys oversight of regulations adopted by state agencies by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB21 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the Joint Committee on Oversight of Agency Regulations (Committee) to engage in review and oversight of regulations adopted by State agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB219 | Intro
25% | This Act creates penalties for misrepresentation of a service animal under the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law and misrepresentation of an assistance animal under the Delaware Fair Housing Act. The language of these penalties is different because u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 11:00 am]
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | SB228 | Intro
25% | This act changes the definition of "copycat weapon" so that small caliber rimfire pistols which are primarily or solely used in competitive target shooting are not made unlawful. to purchase, own, possess, or transfer. This change would mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB91 | Pass | This Act creates a new offense of Aggravated Criminal Mischief with enhanced penalties (class D felony) applicable when an individual knowingly damages or tampers with critical utility infrastructure intending to disrupt utility services. In recent y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB296 | Intro
25% | This Act grants school districts and charter schools the ability to decide if they want to pay prevailing wage for school construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB265 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-23
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB187 | Pass | This Act expands the Video Lottery Intercept Program by requiring an operator of a video lottery facility to submit an individual's winnings from sports betting and table games to the Division of Child Support Services to satisfy delinquent child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-18
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 | 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 | SB133 | Pass | The 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB107 | Pass | This Act clarifies that in calculating the document fee to be paid by the owner upon the sale, transfer, or registration of a park trailer, the owner shall be allowed to demonstrate the fair market value of the park trailer through an appraisal by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB118 | Pass | Due 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB43 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 43. Both this Act and SB 43 add additional State facilities and categories of establishments to § 787 of Title 11 which would be required to display public awareness signs about human trafficking. The add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB66 | Pass | This Act adds the Senate Minority Leader and the House Minority Leader as members of the Public Health Emergency Planning Commission (Commission).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB8 | Pass | This Act is the second substitute for Senate Bill No. 8. Like Senate Bill No. 8 and its first substitute, this Act protects patients from unfair debt collection practices for medical debt, including prohibiting large health care facilities from charg...
[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 | SB108 | Pass | This 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
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 |
