| DE | HB275 | Pass | 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] | 2024-11-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB247 | Pass | There were 139 traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2021, the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2006. Senate Concurrent Resolution 94 of the 151st Delaware General Assembly set a goal of no more than 100 traffic fatalities per year and tasked s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB252 | Pass | This Substitute bill differs from House Bill No. 252 by placing the Delaware Institute of Higher Education year-long teacher residency program under Section 1312 of Title 14 rather than Section 1305.This Substitute bill grants graduates of the Delawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB18 | Pass | This bill amends the Merit System of Personnel Administration by allowing for preference in hiring for casual seasonal employees who are performing the same job duties of a posted merit position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB319 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB332 | Pass | This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB371 | Pass | This Act changes how the Insurance Commissioner and the State Treasurer provide for distributions from taxes collected by the Insurance Commissioner to be made to fire companies or departments in Delaware. The current method for reporting, calculatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB302 | Pass | According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of death from cancer in men. It is estimated that about 1 in 41 men will die of prostate cancer. According to ZERO Prostate Cancer, Black men face serious health ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB340 | Pass | 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] | 2024-10-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB291 | Pass | This Act requires that a candidates political committees contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. This Act also requires the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB287 | Pass | This act requires that an owner be reimbursed up to $1,500 annually for veterinary care expenses paid by the owner for the care of a law-enforcement canine retired from a police department of a political subdivision of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB293 | Pass | 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] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB328 | Pass | 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] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB352 | Pass | This Act gives county code enforcement constables the authority to tow abandoned vehicles on private property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB434 | Pass | This substitute bill requires the Secretary of DNREC to follow certain procedures when conducting public hearings, while giving discretion to the Secretary in choosing which hearings the procedures apply to.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB277 | Pass | This Act designates the Court of Common Pleas as the court with original jurisdiction of offenses under section 4172 of Title 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB16 | Pass | 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] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB286 | Pass | 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] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB353 | Pass | This Act provides civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful disclosure of deep fakes that depict individuals in the nude or engaging in sexual conduct. It provides the same remedies as those available under: (1) the Delaware Uniform Civil Remedies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB355 | Pass | This Act provides legal protections for financial institutions and other entities that provide financial or accounting services to cannabis-related businesses that are licensed or registered under Delaware law. Specifically, it clarifies that banks, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB358 | Pass | This Act serves to clean up certain sections of the Boards Practice Act. Required statutory language omitted due to oversight have been added, such as standards for reciprocity, issuance and renewal of licenses, and hearing procedures. The requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR4 | Pass | This Joint Resolution directs the Division of Motor Vehicles to opt into the FMCSAs federal exemption that allows for first time CDL applicants seeking a school bus only endorsement on their drivers license. An applicants school bus only endorsement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-10-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB13 | Pass | 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] | 2024-10-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB233 | Pass | This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB330 | Pass | This Act increases the amount of the annual appropriation to prefund future State employee retiree health insurance as recommended by the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee of the State Employee Benefits Committee. Like other required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB275 | Pass | The purpose of this Act is to combat aggressive driving and dangerous speed differentials on targeted roadways. This Act prohibits vehicles from traveling in the left lane on the portions of State Route 1 or Interstate 495 that are an express highway...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB296 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Antitrust Act (DAA) (Chapter 21, Title 6 of the Code) to provide indirect purchasers who have been harmed by violations of the Delaware Antitrust Act the ability to sue for damages. Indirect purchasers of a product or ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB307 | Pass | This substitute bill for Senate Bill No. 307 clarifies the meaning of custom fabrication as first defined in Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill No. 102 in the 152nd General Assembly. That substitute bill modified the relationship between custom fabr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB195 | Pass | The Delaware Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment DMOST was enacted in 2016 under HB 64 (148th). The DMOST form allows Delawareans to plan ahead for health-care decisions, express their wishes in writing, and both enable and obligate health care pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB256 | Pass | This Act clarifies the Attorney Generals existing authority to enforce the States consumer protection laws, specifically the Attorney Generals ability to pursue non-penalty civil remedies, such as damages and restitution, without having to show that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB297 | Pass | This Act acknowledges the importance of diversity and inclusivity in education by requiring the Department of Education to update content standards and regulations using a non-exhaustive list of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB223 | Pass | This Act is the product of the work of stakeholders who, with the encouragement of Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 50 (152nd General Assembly), met to examine how to integrate mobile-integrated healthcare and community paramedicine into existing reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-24
Signed by Governor |
| 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] | 2024-09-20
Vetoed by Governor |
| DE | SB202 | Pass | 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] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB329 | Pass | This Act addresses the growing concern over the safety of emergency responders. It increases the penalties for persons who violate this section, which requires drivers to yield the right of way to an emergency vehicle making use of audible or visual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB13 | Pass | This Act requires the Director of the Sustainable Energy Utility to administer a program to provide financial assistance to Delaware residents for the cost of purchase and installation of electric vehicle supply equipment. For a low-income applicant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-05
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB265 | Pass | The Delaware Energy Solutions Act of 2024 authorizes processes necessary to help meet the net zero goals of the Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023. The bill facilitates a transition to carbon-free energy sources by (i) preparing for offshore wind t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-05
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB402 | Pass | This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-05
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB264 | Pass | This Act makes the crime of patronizing a prostitute a class E felony rather than a misdemeanor where the person from whom prostitution is sought is a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB274 | Pass | Early, sustained exposure to peanut and egg proteins in the infant diet significantly reduces the risk that an infant will develop a peanut or egg allergy, saving lives and future health care costs. Following multiple clinical studies, the current gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB297 | Pass | Due to the rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, combined with the frequency in which developers have gone out of business or otherwise been unable to complete work required within developments, this Act increases the funding required to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB347 | Pass | This Act entitles non-exempt Delaware Department of Transportation employees who work over 37.5 hours to be paid at time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB269 | Pass | This Act simplifies and in some cases increases the civil penalties for violations of laws related to dogs that run at large, dogs that bite a human being or domestic animal while running at large, and dogs that are designated as dangerous or potenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB278 | Pass | This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB280 | Pass | This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR8 | Pass | This Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2024, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware and requires that in observance, the State flag be flown at half-staff at State facilities. By recognizing International Ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB331 | Pass | This Act revises §§ 4732 and 4733 of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, Subchapter III, Chapter 47, Title 16 of the Delaware Code, pertaining to the regulation of the manufacture, distribution and dispensing of controlled substances. The revisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB270 | Pass | This Act creates a civil penalty for any sale or display of ammunition that allows the ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser or transferee without the assistance of the vendor or an employee of the vendor. Ammunition in an enclosed display case,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB342 | Pass | This Act creates a Voluntary Firearms Do-Not-Sell Registry in which an applicant may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a firearm. An individual on the Registry may request removal from the Registry no sooner than 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB433 | Pass | This Act revises the experience rating methodology for assigning unemployment assessment rates to employers under the Unemployment Insurance Code in Delaware, replacing the current benefit wage ratio methodology with the benefit ratio methodology use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-15
Signed by Governor |
