| DE | SB221 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-25
To House Administration Committee |
| 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
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
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB209 | Engross
50% | This act adds adult sibling of a decedent to the definition of next of kin in Chapter 47 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code relating to the Division of Forensic Science. This expansion of the definition of next of kin will, for example, allow the Medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB257 | Engross
50% | This Act changes Delawares law related to liability insurance for rental vehicles. Under the Act, the minimum level of coverage required for a vehicle owners policy of liability insurance under ยง 2902 of this title is also required for a vehicle own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | SB276 | Engross
50% | This bill names the Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB200 | Engross
50% | This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Amendment HA 1 to SB 200 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 | SB216 | Engross
50% | This Act increases the civil penalties for violations of the statutes in Title 16, Chapter 11 related to Long Term Care Facilities and the regulations adopted pursuant to it. For violations that the Department determines pose a serious threat to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB318 | Engross
50% | This Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the interveni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB352 | Engross
50% | This Act gives county code enforcement constables the authority to tow abandoned vehicles on private property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee |
| DE | HB127 | Engross
50% | This Act provides each county with the ability to impose, by duly enacted ordinance, a fire protection fee (fee). A county that enacts this fee must do all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB235 | Engross
50% | This Act brings the State in compliance with the federal regulation published by FMCSA on October 7, 2021, to establish a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse as mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). This act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 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 | SB234 | Engross
50% | This bill will extend the timeframe for a customer to apply for a document fee credit refund from 15 days to 30 days. This change will improve customer service by allowing a customer more time to submit the applicable paperwork.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | SB236 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-26
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security 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 | HB286 | Engross
50% | Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| 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 | HB123 | Engross
50% | This act would require the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to obtain the consent of the General Assembly before promulgating any regulations restricting the sale of fuel-powered cars, trucks, and SUVs in Delaware. This Act d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-21
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB242 | Engross
50% | This legislation is an attempt to strike a balance between the need to protect hospital staff, hospital patients, and the public from harm during a State of Emergency, pandemic, or infectious disease outbreak with the expectation that patients should...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-21
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB119 | Engross
50% | Delaware is one of five states that does not have an open container law, which is in direct violation of federal regulations. This Bill bans open containers of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles and provides a civil penalty for an offense. A viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee |
| DE | SB144 | Engross
50% | This Act removes the language "in the capacity of Master" from Chapter 9 of Title 7. This language has the effect of prohibiting highly credentialed professionals who have earned the right to captain their own ships, via appropriate United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | HB89 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act increases the standard deduction for personal income tax purposes of resident individuals and spouses of this State for tax years beginning after December 31, 2023. Section 3 of this Act increases the monetary filing thresholds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
Amendment SA 2 to HB 89 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB180 | Engross
50% | This Act designates Maypole dancing as the official dance of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB66 | Engross
50% | House Bill No. 66 adds required information to annual reports issued by the Department of Education (Department), currently known as School Performance Data Reports, and which are available on the Departments website as the Delaware Report Card.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB135 | Engross
50% | This bill requires that of the five Justices appointed to the Supreme Court, at least one is a resident of Kent County, at least one is a resident of Sussex County and at least two are residents of New Castle County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SB26 | Engross
50% | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment that would update the minimum voting age in the Delaware Constitution from twenty-one years to eighteen years. The first leg of this constitutional amendment was Senate Bill No. 294 of the 151s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Tabled in Committee |
