| DE | HB18 | Intro | This Act revises the requirements for the shape of a Complete Community Enterprise Districts (District) to maximize the use of transit, walking, and bicycling by residents and employees. Specifically, this Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
Suspension of Rules in House |
| DE | HB41 | Intro | Section 1 of this Act clarifies that the reinstatement obligations of insurers under Section 3903(d) apply in instances of both nonrenewals and cancellations of policies due to nonpayment of premiums. Sections 2 through 4 of this Act revise the metho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
Suspension of Rules in House |
| DE | SB24 | Intro | The intent of this Act is to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the environment and to raise awareness of the need to properly dispose of balloons. To that end, this Act imposes a civil penalty for the violation of intentionally releasing 5 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
Amendment SA 1 to SB 24 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB72 | Intro | This Act creates the position of Deputy Commissioner of Correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
Suspension of Rules in House |
| DE | SB44 | Intro | This Act allows the Drug Overdose Fatality Review Commission ("Commission") to review all deaths related to a drug overdose, regardless of the type of drug implicated in the overdose death. This change will allow the Commission to obtain an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 10:00 am]
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB92 | Intro | House Bill No. 92 reduces the term of a member elected to a school board from 5 years to 4 years for members elected after December 31, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB99 | Intro | This Act confirms that nursery stock as defined in Title 3, Chapter 13, Nurseries and Nursery Stock, includes clones and seedlings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Agriculture Committee |
| DE | HB110 | Intro | Current Delaware regulations provide that transportation benefits must be provided for students in grades K through 6 who live 1 or more miles from the schools to which district administrators would normally assign them. In grades 7 through 12, the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB2 | Intro | This bill repeals certain provisions in Title 11 relating to abortion including provisions which treat abortion differently than other medical procedures, and provisions which criminalize women and the sale of medical devices and medicines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SB80 | Intro | This Act adds a provision addressing the assignability of rights under property insurance policies and authorizes a property insurance carrier to limit a policys assignability only to those persons or entities that have the legal authority to represe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | HB31 | Intro | This bill repeals certain provisions in Title 11 relating to abortion including provisions which treat abortion differently than other medical procedures, and provisions which criminalize women and the sale of medical devices and medicines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SB78 | Intro | This Act enhances the qualifications for an individual to serve as a member of a school board or the State Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB76 | Intro | This Act authorizes the distribution of testing strips to determine the presence of fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Fentanyl testing strips could be distributed to the community along with opioid overdose reversal medication as a harm reduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB10 | Intro | This Act adopts the Agreement to Phase-Out Corporate Giveaways, under which member states are prohibited from offering or providing company-specific tax incentives or grants to an entity as inducement for the entity to physically relocate to the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB73 | Intro | This Act permits an individual to practice dentistry for the Division of Public Health (Division) under a provisional license. Delaware law provides several routes for entering practice on an interim basis until full licensure can be obtained, howeve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB64 | Intro | This Act requires that accumulated snow and ice be removed from surfaces of a vehicle before it is operated and imposes a civil penalty for a violation. This Act also creates a civil penalty for each instance where snow or ice dislodges from a moving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB68 | Intro | This Act expands eligibility for the Department of Correction's Education Assistance Fund beyond correctional officers to employees who hold a position at paygrade 15 or below and meet the other existing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:30 am]
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB69 | Intro | Under House Bill No. 354, which was enacted by the 150th General Assembly, death certificates may be electronically filed with the Delaware Vital Events Registration System until March 30, 2021. This Act removes the sunset provision, so that death ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB72 | Intro | This Act clarifies that discrimination against any person because of religion is illegal under Chapter 45 of Title 6, the Delaware Equal Accommodations Act. Religion and religious beliefs were always intended to be protected under the Delaware Equal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | SB65 | Intro | This Act establishes the Focus on Alternative Skills Training Program ("FAST"). FAST will provide tuition, up to $9,000, to Delaware residents who have obtained a high school diploma, Diploma of Alternate Achievement Standards, or a Delawar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | SB75 | Intro | This Act revises the Fair Housing Act to repeal the exception to discrimination based on source of income that allows a landlord to discriminate against tenants who participate in government-sponsored rental assistance programs. This exemption contri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| DE | HB107 | Intro | In the 1943 decision West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 63 S. Ct. 1178, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a public school requirement that students salute the flag or face punishment violated the First Amendment of the Constitution be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB102 | Intro | This Act removes the broad exemption in the Freedom of Information Act for the University of Delaware and Delaware State University and creates the following specific exemptions for some records of public institutions:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB111 | Intro | Individuals who are at very high risk of getting HIV can take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. PrEP medication reduces the risk of HIV transmission by up to 99% if taken daily. This Act prohibits disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB29 | Intro | This Act enhances 2 existing agricultural horse racing programs, the Delaware Standardbred Breeder's Program and the Delaware Certified Thoroughbred program, by providing additional funding. Under this Act, horsemen provide half of the additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 2:30 pm]
Amendment SA 1 to SB 29 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB63 | Intro | This Act limits the use of certain Class B firefighting foams (Class B foams) in Delaware. Class B foams are used to put out fires caused by flammable liquids like gasoline, oil, and jet fuel, and can be divided into 2 categories: those with PFAS che...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee |
| DE | SB61 | Intro | The Agricultural Lands Preservation Act allows existing farm structures that are no longer in use, but which existed when the farmland was placed in the preservation program, to be converted to use for public gatherings under specific limitations. Ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 11:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| DE | SB60 | Intro | This Act allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to recommend medical marijuana for adult patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB56 | Intro | This Act codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how the funding is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:30 am]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB96 | Intro | This Act prohibits multiple service charges for residential trash collection service. However, under this Act, specific charges are allowed for the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 11:00 am]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB106 | Intro | This Act appropriates $35,726,700 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB100 | Intro | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware elementary schools. The unit is at a ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades K-5 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HCR9 | Intro | This Concurrent Resolution amends House Concurrent Resolution No. 1 to require votes in a legislative committee to be taken by roll call. This change means that the rules of the Senate or House of Representatives will control how votes on the virtual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB50 | Intro | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2022 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To Senate Capital Improvement Committee |
| DE | SB55 | Intro | This Act creates emergency access to epinephrine that allows an institution of higher education to acquire and stock a supply of epinephrine autoinjectors if an employee or agent has completed a training program. This Act allows the individual who ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB105 | Intro | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB95 | Intro | This Act requires that individual, group, State employee, and public assistance insurance plans provide coverage for epinephrine autoinjectors for individuals who are 18 years of age or under and must include at least 1 formulation of epinephrine aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 11:00 am]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB94 | Intro | The minimum wage for employees who receive tips or gratuities has not changed since 1983, when the overall state minimum wage was $3.35 per hour. Tipped wage workers at that time were paid a percentage 66.67% of the minimum wage, which was $2.23 pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB87 | Intro | This bill increases the membership of the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council to 24 members by adding representatives from the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Criminal Justice Council, the Department of Transportation, and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB88 | Intro | This bill removes the training minimum wage and youth minimum wage, which takes effect 90 days after enactment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB86 | Intro | This Act provides increased funding for kindergarten through third grade students identified as eligible for basic special education services. Currently, basic special education is provided for students in fourth through twelfth grade who are identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB89 | Intro | This act will allow a critical need reimbursement to be distributed directly to an institute of higher education or Secretary of Education approved Alternative Routes to Teacher Licensure and Certification program for an eligible teacher who is takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB16 | Intro | Section 1 of this Act modifies Delawares Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to allow recipients to choose the most beneficial credit to be applied against their Delaware Personal Income Taxes. Under this Act, recipients can choose between a non-refundab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 11 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB73 | Intro | This Act reflects a recommendation of the 2019 Comprehensive Reentry Plan and Progress Report which allows the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole officers the flexibility to recommend to a court house arrest (Level IV home confinement) f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB37 | Intro | Delaware, like the rest of the country and the world, has been struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic since March of 2020. The worst outbreaks have occurred in facilities where people live and/or work in tight communal settings long-term care facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB83 | Intro | In January 2020, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 150th General Assembly in 2019 or as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB54 | Intro | This bill makes certain technical amendments to the Delaware Voluntary Clean Energy Financing Program Based on Property Assessments (D-PACE) Act. The amendments are based upon comments received from New Castle County and the lending community. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
To Senate Environmental & Energy Committee |
| DE | SB46 | Intro | This Act permits wedding venues and persons renting a premises for other social gatherings to allow customers to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises, if licensed by the Commissioner as a bottle club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | SB49 | Intro | This act clarifies that the University of Delaware, like other institutes of higher learning including Delaware State University and Delaware Technical and Community College, must comply with the terms of the Prevailing Wage Law for projects secured ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | HB20 | Intro | This bill requires all public and charter schools which have students in grades 6-12 to provide free feminine hygiene products in 50% of the bathrooms used by students who can have a menstrual cycle. This bill also requires schools to publish on its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
