| DE | SB21 | Pass | This Act amends the Delaware Energy Act to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in the State by creating more accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB103 | Pass | This bill clarifies definitions relating to airbags, counterfeit supplemental restraint system components, nonfunctional airbags, and supplemental restraint systems, and prohibited trade practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB121 | Pass | This Act removes the October 5, 2021 sunset provision in Chapter 196, Volume 81 of the Laws of Delaware so that the rule of the road for bicycles approaching or entering intersections with 2 or fewer lane roads, § 4196A (c) of Title 21 of the Delawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB149 | Pass | This Act provides a senior discount for residents and non-residents 62 years of age and older, for a conservation access pass, and a life-time conservation access pass for Delaware residents, 65 years of age and older, consistent with current senior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB2 | Pass | In order to lower the cost of energy and accelerate the adoption of community-based solar photovoltaic systems in the State, this bill eliminates current barriers to such systems and sets up a regulatory process to be implemented by the Public Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB241 | Pass | This Act permits an officer to refer a juvenile who is in possession of alcohol or marijuana to the Juvenile Civil Citation Program rather than issue an assessment for a monetary civil penalty. Pursuant to the Juvenile Civil Citation Program, a juven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB249 | Pass | This Act creates a tuition reimbursement program for volunteer firefighters, similar to already existing programs for law enforcement officers and National Guard members. Pursuant to this program, active volunteer firefighters may be reimbursed for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB226 | Pass | Subchapter III, Chapter 68, Title 16 of the Delaware Code (Subchapter III) was originally enacted in 1982. In 1996, President Clinton signed the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1791 (Bill Emerson Act). The Bill Emerson Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB29 | Pass | This Act eliminates the ability of a candidate to change their candidacy to become a candidate for a different office after the deadline for notification of candidacy has passed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB32 | Pass | This Act provides all law-enforcement officers the authority to enforce the existing labeling requirements for dumpsters that are in a public road or parking lot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB24 | Pass | This legislation closes several loopholes that dealers have been using to get around suspended or revoked dealership licenses. Currently the Division of Motor Vehicles will suspend or revoke a dealer license, and the dealer will get a family member o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB28 | Pass | This Act represents the consensus agreement among the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and stakeholders to provide the public with access to de-identified accident data. Access to the crash history of inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB74 | Pass | This Act relates to the police and fire pension fund provisions of Chapter 7, Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The Act clarifies that an eligible retiree must be alive on July 1 of each biennial payout year in order to receive the payment provided for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB5 | Pass | If a community owner proposes a rent increase that exceeds the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City area (CPI-U), then the Delaware Manufactured Home relocation Authority is mandated to hold a fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB167 | Pass | The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a final rule for odometer disclosure. NHTSAs final rule became effective January 1, 2021. The new rule extends the age of vehicles exempt from odometer disclosure from 10 years old...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB173 | Pass | This Act allows the parent or guardian of a military-connected student to preliminarily enroll the student by remote registration in a school district where the parent or guardian is in the active military of the United States or in full-time status ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB157 | Pass | Delawares Power of Attorney statute requires a notary to verify the signature on a document. Many financial institutions have difficulty having the customer appear before a notary for that notarization. There are several electronic signature verifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB79 | Pass | This Act provides that the amount of ordinary or disability pension payable to a 9-1-1 operator includes 2.45% of the 9-1-1 operator's final average compensation multiplied by years of service above 25 years, the same multiplier as applied to cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB82 | Pass | This bill seeks to amend sections of Chapter 66 concerning the Delaware State Fire Prevention by: imposing a timeframe on the Delaware Volunteer Firefighters Association to recommend nominate Commission members to the Governor; imposing a presumption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB213 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Elsmere and Title 21 of the Delaware Code to create a Voluntary Assessment Center and establish procedures governing the creation and operation of the Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR5 | Pass | This Senate Joint Resolution creates a one-time, Toll Violation Amnesty Program (Amnesty Program) to provide a 3 month long opportunity for people to satisfy toll debt that is in collection from toll violations that occurred on I-95 and SR 1. The Amn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB156 | Pass | This Act requires that prevailing wages be paid to laborers and mechanics working on all University of Delaware construction sites or renovation projects that exceed a certain cost. The prevailing wages are set by the Delaware Department of Labor, Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB184 | Pass | Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 48 (SS 1 for SB 48) of the 150th General Assembly enacted a requirement that contractors bidding for large public works contracts provide craft training of apprentices and journeymen. This Act clarifies the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB181 | Pass | This Act makes clear that the Town of Delmar, Delaware is a public employer for purposes of the Police Officers' and Firefighters' Employment Relations Act, Chapter 16 of Title 19 of the Delaware Code, and Chapter 16 of Title 19 applies to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR4 | Pass | This Senate Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2021 as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware and directs the State flag to be lowered to half-staff at State facilities and encourages local governments, business...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-08-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB100 | Pass | 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] | 2021-08-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB16 | Pass | 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] | 2021-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB55 | Pass | 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] | 2021-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB223 | Pass | This Act clarifies that when a motor vehicle is subject to a possessory lien either through towing or because of failure to make payment to a garage owner for services rendered to the motor vehicle, the possessory lien does not extend to personal pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB178 | Pass | Year-long teacher residency programs are a partnership between an educator preparation program and a Delaware school district or charter school to provide a year-long immersive experience for teacher candidates, allowing them a full and supported, on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB104 | Pass | This Act moves the date by which the Department of Education shall submit its annual report to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council from August 1 to October 15 of each year. Moving the date to October 15 will better accommodate the data collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB93 | Pass | This Act provides protections for consumers in connection with contracts with automatic renewal provisions. Multiple states have enacted laws regulating the automatic renewals of contracts, often described as "evergreen" clauses. These stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB42 | Pass | This Act eliminates § 321(d) since § 321(c) sets forth the accepted process for furnishing of examination reports and hearing requests by the Commissioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB86 | Pass | 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] | 2021-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB91 | Pass | This Act leverages technological advances to allow Family Court the flexibility to permit litigants to publish through a legal notices website established by the Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB95 | Pass | This bill will provide Delaware students with strong academic credentials and a demonstrated commitment to volunteer public service to receive scholarship monies sufficient to cover the full cost of tuition at Delaware State University. The intent of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB91 | Pass | This Act amends Delawares Consumer Fraud Act (Subchapter II, Chapter 25, Title 6 of the Code), to give Delaware consumers and businesses the protection against unfair acts or practices in commerce that the General Assembly intended to give them when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB200 | Pass | Many of the States waters do not meet water quality standards to support their designated uses, such as for drinking, swimming or supporting aquatic life. The Clean Water for Delaware Act establishes a framework for assessing needs and planning and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB195 | Pass | This Act requires certain police officers and some certain employees of the Department of Correction and Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families to wear a body worn camera and to use the body worn camera to record interactions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB15 | Pass | This bill provides for gradual increases in the Delaware minimum wage to $15 over a period of several years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB48 | Enroll
Recessed | This Act increases the penalty for violations of the Board of Electrical Examiners licensing regulations in situations involving fraud and material deception, or where a person has performed electrical work in a category for which the practitioner is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB51 | Enroll
Recessed | This Act increases the monetary penalties for sanctions by the Board of Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Examiners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB56 | Pass | 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] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB94 | Intro
Recessed | 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] | 2021-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB72 | Pass | 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] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB175 | Pass | This Act allows one excused absence per school year for students grades 6 through 12 to attend civic engagements such as visits to the United States Capitol, Legislative Hall, and sites of political and cultural significance, or participation in a ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB180 | Engross
Recessed | This Act revises Chapter 70 of Title 25, which governs manufactured homes on rented lots in manufactured home communities, by adding disclosure requirements to the right of first offer process when the community owner decides to sell, transfer, or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Referred to Out of Committee Status |
| DE | HB166 | Enroll
Recessed | Like House Bill No. 166, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 166 establishes the Elevate Delaware program. Elevate Delaware will provide payments for tuition and auxiliary expenses, up to $10,000, for individuals to attend an approved non-credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB182 | Enroll
Recessed | The Victims Compensation Assistance Program (Agency or VCAP) administers the Victims Compensation Fund and provides financial assistance to eligible victims of crimes to help cover the costs of a variety of services that help victims and their famili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB163 | Pass | The Delaware Code does not currently contain any explicit direction for public schools relating to school absences for observance of religious holidays. This Act requires schools to excuse a pupil's absence for observance of a religious holiday, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
