| DE | HB260 | Intro | This bill creates the Grant-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to review requests for grant-in-aid and to develop the grant-in-aid appropriations bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB256 | Intro | This Act requires children 2 years of age or younger to be secured in a rear-facing child passenger restraint system, until the child outgrows the maximum weight and height limits designated by the car seat manufacturer or until the child weighs 40 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | HB246 | Intro | This bill would increase the exemption from inspection from 5 years to 7 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| DE | HB252 | Intro | Section 1 of this Act enhances the States ability to collect delinquent taxes by (a) allowing for renewal of a judgment for unpaid taxes beyond the current 20 year limit for an additional term of 20 years, and (b) allows for recording of a judgment f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
[Hearing: Jun 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | SB124 | Intro | This bill appoints the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security as Chair of the DPAC and removes the President Pro Tem and the Speaker of the House from the Commission. This bill also makes technical corrections in conformance with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-20
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SB111 | Enroll | This bill establishes the Behavioral Health Consortium that will provide oversight and coordination of the States private and public bodies to address behavioral health issues in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB220 | Engross | This act establishes the Addiction Action Committee as a means to establish a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to address addiction in Delaware. The committee is authorized to make recommendations on a comprehensive approach to address and monitor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
[Hearing: Jun 28 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB222 | Intro | This Act would allow the Superior Court to issue a lethal violence protection order where a family member or a law enforcement officer can show that the respondent poses a danger to self or others by owning, possessing, controlling, purchasing or rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB226 | Engross | Recognizing a fundamental economic change toward businesses that require innovation, The Honorable John C. Carney, Governor of the State of Delaware, issued Executive Order One on January 18, 2017 creating a Working Group of business and government l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-13
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB80 | Engross | This Act replaces existing Chapter 83 of the Delaware Insurance Code and sets forth the permissible uses of credit information in rating personal insurance. This Act also prohibits insurance companies from increasing rates on current customers solely...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB209 | Intro | This Act is meant to prohibit the practice of waiving certain sections of the Delaware Code year after year through the use of epilogue language in the budget bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB215 | Engross | This bill eliminates the sunset provision on the at-store recycling program for plastic bags. The program established in 2009 included a sunset provision until 2014. In 2014, the General Assembly extended that sunset provision to 2017. This bill elim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB200 | Intro | This bill sets a minimum reimbursement rate for home health care nursing services paid for by Medicaid-contracted organizations. The rate shall be at least equal to the rate set by the Division of Medicaid for equivalent services. Home care nurses an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SB97 | Enroll | This bill allows Delaware Department of Transportation authorized vehicles to be able to use the shoulder of the road when responding to emergencies. Department of Transportation staff must respond to emergencies along the road to assist police, fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB190 | Engross | This Act, which shall be known as the Coastal Zone Conversion Permit Act, makes changes to the Coastal Zone Act (CZA), which has not been significantly updated since its enactment almost a half century ago. The CZA, enacted in 1971, has enabled Delaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-18
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| DE | HB183 | Engross | This Act clarifies that the reviews of child and maternal deaths are confidential and may not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Death Review Commission are protected.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB177 | Intro | This bill broadens the eligibility requirement for an appointment to a board of adjustment in jurisdictions which have adopted a home rule charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB182 | Engross | This bill clarifies that the reviews of child abuse and neglect deaths and near deaths are confidential and should not be used in any proceedings. It ensures that the committees and panels who do the work on behalf of the Child Protection Accountabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB5 | Intro | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to provide for equal rights. This amendment would advance human dignity and equality for all under the Delaware Constitution, and would correct a constitutional shortcoming. It su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-16
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HCR27 | Engross | This Resolution recognizes May 10, 2017, as the 100th Anniversary of the Delaware Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-10
Introduced in House |
| DE | HB8 | Engross | This bill seeks to expand the eligibility criteria for the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program by including the offense of possession of drug paraphernalia and permitting a second referral to the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program where th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB164 | Intro | This bill dissolves the Human Trafficking Coordinating Council and reestablishes it as the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council. The bill establishes the members of the Council and the chair and vice-chair. The bill also requires that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB2 | Intro | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to provide for equal protection. This amendment would advance human dignity and equality for all under the Delaware Constitution, and would correct a constitutional shortcoming. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB163 | Intro | Currently there are 17 "check-boxes" on the Delaware personal income tax return where taxpayers may designate a portion of their refund or send additional money with their payment due to be credited as a charitable donation to various organ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | SCR25 | Engross | This resolution continues to raise awareness that the month of May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month in Delaware and celebrates new research predicting lower melanoma rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-09
Introduced in Senate |
| DE | SB78 | Enroll | This Act enhances penalties for drivers who cause serious physical injury, as defined in § 222 of Title 11, to a vulnerable user, as defined in this Act. For a person to be guilty under this Act, the injured vulnerable user must be lawfully using a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-05
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB5 | Pass | The United States Supreme Courts decisions in Roe v. Wade and subsequent cases established that access to abortion is a constitutional right and that states may not prohibit abortion prior to viability. As a result of these decisions, and the exercis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 5 |
| DE | HR12 | Intro | This resolution designates May 5, 2017, as "School Lunch Hero Day" in order to recognize the hardworking school nutrition professionals in this State's school cafeterias and to showcase the difference these professionals make in the liv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03
Introduced in House |
| DE | SB50 | Intro | Delaware's Community College System, operated by Delaware Technical and Community College (the College), plays a critical role in the State's economy by providing workforce development and transfer education that connects Delawareans with goo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HR10 | Intro | This House Resolution recognizes April 28, 2017, as Workers Memorial Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
Introduced in House |
| DE | SB65 | Engross | Conversion therapy is a practice or treatment that seeks to change an individuals sexual orientation or gender identity, including any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB146 | Engross | This bill will remove the requirement for signatures to be in pen and ink when provided for driver license, identification card, or registration application processes. Removing this provision enables the Division of Motor Vehicles to develop more eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-25
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| DE | HB144 | Intro | This bill serves to better define and limit what real property rights the Department of Transportation may acquire. It also corrects a technical error that if left unchanged, will jeopardize the use of federal funds on transportation projects due to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-25
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| DE | HB141 | Enroll | This Act authorizes the Family Court to interview a child outside the presence of the parties for the purpose of obtaining the child's testimony and ascertaining the truth of a matter asserted by a party to a Protection from Abuse proceeding. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB134 | Intro | This Act establishes an Educational Support Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work educational support professionals, such as paraprofessionals, food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB140 | Intro | This non-punitive, public-health oriented bill seeks to codify certain sections of the federal law known as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), as amended by the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), that requires states ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SCR13 | Enroll | This Resolution recognizes April, 2017 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Introduced in Senate |
| DE | HB113 | Enroll | This bill changes the earned income tax credit from nonrefundable to refundable. This bill creates a table for the percentage of earned income credit for tax years 2018 and after. Currently, if spouses file a joint federal return but separate State r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | SCR15 | Engross | This resolution designates April 6, 2017 as National Tartan Day and commemorates the outstanding achievements and contributions made by Scottish-Americans to the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
Introduced in Senate |
| DE | HCR17 | Engross | This Resolution recognizes the week of April 3 - 7 as Work Zone Awareness Week in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Introduced in House |
| DE | HB114 | Enroll | The purpose of this amendment is to better protect the motorists of the State of Delaware by raising the minimum automobile bodily injury and property damage limits to reflect the current economic conditions. The minimum automobile liability limits h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB112 | Enroll | This Act allows professional licensing boards and commissions administered by the Division of Professional Regulation to recognize military education, training, and experience of all current and former military personnel when reviewing credentials an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB1 | Enroll | This Act builds on some of the legislation passed by the 148th General Assembly that addressed the wage gap between men and women. When employers ask prospective employees for their wage or salary history, it perpetuates disparities in pay based on g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Labor Committee |
| DE | HB109 | Intro | This bill lowers the current tax rate by .05% for each bracket. The bill creates a new tax bracket at $125,000 with a rate of 7.05% and an additional bracket at $250,000 with a rate of 7.80%. The bill also provides a tiered reduction of the otherwise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB120 | Enroll | This Act requires health insurance policies to cover any medically appropriate drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of stage 4 metastatic cancer without requiring a patient to first prove that the patient failed to respond to a different drug o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB110 | Intro | The Delaware Marijuana Control Act regulates and taxes marijuana in the same manner as alcohol. It allows adults over the age of 21 to legally possess and consume under 1 ounce of marijuana for personal use. It does not permit people to grow their ow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SJR1 | Pass | This Joint Resolution opposes the cost allocation of the Artificial Island Transmission Project as unfair and unduly burdensome to the ratepayers of Delaware and urges PJM to join with Delaware in contesting the cost allocation in the proceedings pen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
Introduced in Senate |
| DE | HB103 | Intro | The Act amends Section 916 of Title 11 of the Code so that the statutory penalties for the crime of home improvement fraud increase as the amount of the loss to the victim increases, using the same scale applicable to Theft under Section 841 of Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB99 | Enroll | This bill would require that a resident 65 years of age or older claiming a tax credit against school taxes must be a resident of the state for at least 10 years before qualifying for such credit. The current requirement is only for 3-year residency....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB54 | Enroll | The continued existence and dissemination of a juvenile criminal record hampers an individuals ability to become a successful and productive member of society. These criminal histories are a hindrance to employment, education, housing and credit. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
