| DE | HB70 | Engross
50% | This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the persons 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the persons natural li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 Favorable |
| DE | HB281 | Pass | 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] | 2024-06-26
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB16 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB419 | Engross
50% | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 10:00 am]
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB140 | Fail | This Act permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual's life in a humane and dignified manner if both the individual's attending physician or attendin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 11 YES 10 NO |
| DE | HB110 | Enroll
75% | Section 1 amends Title 31 to require all health benefit plans delivered or issued for Medicaid to cover services related to the termination of pregnancy. Coverage provided under this section is not subject to any deductible, coinsurance, copayment, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB282 | Veto | 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] | 2024-06-25
Vetoed by Governor |
| DE | SB20 | Pass | 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] | 2024-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB254 | Engross
50% | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB298 | Engross
50% | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Newport in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB200 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware high schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2024, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 9-12 for a full-time school counselor, schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB438 | Intro
25% | This Act makes changes to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program. It removes the employer as the party responsible for making eligibility determinations and claims decisions and instead reallocates this responsibility to the Department of Labor an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-25
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB283 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB399 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by a cabinet-level Secretary appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department will take over most of the duties currently handled by the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Amendment HA 1 to HB 399 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB401 | Engross
50% | This Act amends Section 2603 of Title 16 to require the Division of Public Health to provide the results of lead screenings or tests to school nurses and require contracts or computer upgrades to include lead results.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Amendment SA 1 to HB 401 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB19 | Enroll
75% | This Act creates a background special license plate for the United Way of Delaware Pride Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB313 | Enroll
75% | This Act ensures that all female inmates in DDOC custody, at level IV or V, receive annual or biennial screening mammograms as recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB345 | Enroll
75% | This Act requires Medicaid coverage for additional postpartum visits with a doula upon recommendation of a licensed practitioner or clinician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB238 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-18
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB340 | Engross
50% | This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB13 | Engross
50% | Healthcare facility assessments are currently the second largest source of funding for states shares of Medicaid costs, behind general funds. Today, 49 states have at least one facility assessment in place, including Delaware, while 34 states and Was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB374 | Enroll
75% | This Act updates House Bill 455 from the 151st General Assembly by providing the same legal protections afforded providers of contraceptive and abortion services to providers of fertility treatment. In summary, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO |
| DE | SB295 | Engross
50% | This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB300 | Engross
50% | This Act requires crisis pregnancy centers in this state to provide notice if the center is not licensed by this state as a medical facility and does not have a licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises, in person, the provision o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB301 | Engross
50% | Like Senate Bill No. 301, this Act, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 301 requires public universities in this state to provide access to medication for the termination of pregnancy and emergency contraception. The medication and contracept...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB147 | Engross
50% | This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 147. Like House Bill No. 147, this Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate. This is done by permitting an owner of an interest in real estate to execute and record a transfer on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB426 | Engross
50% | This Act ensures that pregnant women in DOC custody, at Level IV or V, are able to meet with a doula or midwife to create a birth plan surrounding the birth of their child. Among other things, the birth plan must include a statement identifying a pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-18
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB248 | Enroll
75% | This Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is leased by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, "employer" refers to the employer client of the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB362 | Engross
50% | In 2023, the General Assembly passed House Bill 80, which required the coverage of doula services under the States Medicaid plan beginning in 2024. This Act would require similar coverage under private health insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 26 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB383 | Engross
50% | This substitute for House Bill 383 does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-13
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | SB4 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 4, replacing Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4. and Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 4. Like Senate Bill No. 4, Senate Substitute No. 1, and Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Amendment SA 1 to SS 3 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB316 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a new elections crime: use of deep fake technology to influence an election. Under this statute it would be a crime to distribute within 90 days of an election a deep fake that is an audio or visual depiction that has been manipulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB284 | Engross
50% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB282 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB180 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 180. Like Senate Bill No. 180, this Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution that does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 180 |
| DE | SB322 | Intro
25% | This Act updates the Grace Firestone Act to strengthen regulations for member schools regarding sudden cardiac arrest. The Act requires member schools to develop an athletic emergency action plan and have an automated external defibrillator (AED) les...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB285 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act by removing the requirement that a patient have a debilitating medical condition to qualify for a registry identification card, instead allowing health-care providers to make the determination of whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB17 | Intro
25% | This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Motion to Release Failed |
| DE | HB262 | Intro
25% | This Act permits wine producers holding a valid license within this State or another state to obtain a license and ship wine directly to Delaware consumers so long as it is done through a common carrier with a carrier permit. This Act requires that w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB275 | Engross
50% | This Act updates the definition of "sexual orientation" throughout the Delaware Code by adding asexuality and pansexuality. Asexuality refers to individuals with little to no sexual attraction to other individuals, although asexual individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-22
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB415 | Intro
25% | This Act ensures that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opportunities. To that end, this Act sets forth the rights of individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB2 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 2. Like Senate Bill No. 2 this Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB162 | Pass | House Bill 162 authorizes the process of natural organic reduction to be used in this State. Natural organic reduction is the gentle, respectful process that accelerates the decomposition of human remains to soil. This process uses large vessels to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB308 | Engross
50% | This Act mandates that employees of institutions of higher education and students receive training in sexual assault prevention. Although the current law makes training available, it has not been required. This Act further changes the reporting perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB294 | Intro
25% | This Act removes assigned salary schedules established for child care licensing specialists and child care licensing supervisors, who are employed through the Department of Education. By removing this language, the Department of Education will be abl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB232 | Engross
50% | In light of the Federal Drug Administrations recent approval of over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills, this bill expands the contraceptive coverage laws to include over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB388 | Intro
25% | This Act updates the Clean Indoor Air Act to include the burning of marijuana or the use of marijuana in an electronic smoking device as a prohibited activity in all the same locations where smoking a tobacco product or using an electronic smoking de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB315 | Pass | This Act makes technical corrections to remove racist language and provisions from the Delaware Code. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual and the current respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB290 | Intro
25% | This Act removes a barrier to higher education by allowing a student who has been convicted of a violent felony to qualify for or maintain eligibility for a SEED scholarship if other eligibility criteria are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB55 | Intro
25% | This Act is the Bill of Rights for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness to ensure that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee |
