Delaware Representative Edward Osienski [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
DE	SB128	Pass	This Act establishes the crime of obstruction of justice. Nearly every other state has a statutory crime of obstruction of justice and this Act is modeled on laws that prohibit intentional obstruction of justice and interference with governmental fun... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	HB151	Pass	This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adults access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible prope... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	SB36	Pass	This Act provides a definition for 911 Dispatchers. While referenced in other sections of the Code, including being identified as a first responder in § 4319 of Title 11 for purposes of confidentiality of communications by first responders for criti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-21 Signed by Governor
DE	HB73	Pass	This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill 73 provides a 5-year statute of limitations for the Department of Labor to bring civil actions to recover nonfraud overpayment debts and no period of limitations to recover fraud overpayment debts. This port... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-14 Signed by Governor
DE	SB145	Pass	This Act increases the limits on the dollar amount of awards of compensatory or punitive damages, or both, in cases of employment discrimination, establishing specific caps based on the number of the respondent's employees. This Act also clarifie... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-11 Signed by Governor
DE	HB78	Pass	This Act updates the definition of a catalytic converter and limits the purchase or sale of a catalytic converter to a licensed automotive recycler or licensed scrap metal processor, and their respective employees and agents. The Act prohibits minors... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-11 Signed by Governor
DE	SB146	Pass	Under current law, an individual can file a charge of employment discrimination by sending the verified charge to the Delaware Department of Labor (Department). This Act clarifies that a verified charge of discrimination is deemed to be filed on the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-11 Signed by Governor
DE	HB154	Pass	This bill creates the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. The Act delineates a consumers personal data rights and provides that residents of this State will have the right to know what information is being collected about them, see the information, c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-11 Signed by Governor
DE	HB265	Intro Recessed	This act requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally provides pornography and other materials defined as harmful to minors to verify the age of individuals accessing the material. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-09-01 To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DE	SJR1	Pass	This Senate Joint Resolution directs the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to explore participating in the federal title IV-E Guardianship Assistance Program to increase support to relative guardians and facilitate perma... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-31 Signed by Governor
DE	SB182	Pass	This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 182. Like Senate Bill No. 182, this act does all of the following: [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-31 Signed by Governor
DE	HB138	Pass	This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-23 Signed by Governor
DE	HB202	Pass	This Act limits those individuals who may possess a firearm at a polling place on an Election Day to the following: (1) law enforcement officers, (2) commissioned security guards acting in their official capacity, (3) constables acting in their offic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-18 Signed by Governor
DE	SB92	Pass	This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act by expanding the jurisdictional application of the Act to employers with less than 100 employees and as few as 25 employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-17 Signed by Governor
DE	SB93	Pass	This bill amends the Delaware Public Employment Relations Act by requiring that the Board, consistent with the Boards Rules and Regulations, issue written decisions following hearings on unfair labor practice charges within 30 days of the close of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-17 Signed by Governor
DE	HB4	Pass	This Act is Nolans Law. The purpose of this legislation is to provide more behavioral health supports to school districts and charter schools in the aftermath of a school-connected traumatic event, which is defined as the death of any student, educat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-16 Signed by Governor
DE	HB3	Pass	According to a recent CDC survey, the COVID pandemic exacerbated an existing mental health crisis for students. One in 5 school aged children has a mental health condition, and 45% of children may have experienced a traumatic event. This bill provide... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-16 Signed by Governor
DE	HB105	Pass	This Act requires physicians who are discontinuing business, leaving the State, or terminating a patient-physician relationship for any other reason to notify affected patients at least thirty days prior to the discontinuation of services via first c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-09 Signed by Governor
DE	HB163	Pass	This Act authorizes the Department of Education to issue an initial or continuing license to a Junior Reserve Officer Training Core (JROTC) Instructor who has been certified by the United States Department of Defense (USDOD). This Act also removes ou... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-09 Signed by Governor
DE	HB176	Pass	This bill would extend various deadlines in the Unemployment Code. The intent is to provide claimants and employers additional time to receive and prepare a response or appeal of benefit determinations and other important documents that require a res... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-09 Signed by Governor
DE	HB169	Pass	This Act requires the Secretary of Education to publish and deliver to the General Assembly a report detailing requests for certificates of necessity that are not included in the proposed capital budget and the reasons for the rejection and a ranking... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-09 Signed by Governor
DE	SB156	Pass	Under the current salary scale for teachers, if a permitted paraprofessional in a school wishes to become a certified teacher in the same school, they may have to take a pay cut to do so. This Act provides teachers who previously worked as paraprofes... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-09 Signed by Governor
DE	SB32	Pass	The bill adds visual impairments including blindness to the list of programs to be conducted on a 12-month schedule. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-03 Signed by Governor
DE	HB11	Pass	This Act requires new commercial buildings with a foundation footprint of 50,000 square feet or greater to meet certain requirements to ensure that their roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-03 Signed by Governor
DE	HB10	Pass	This Act establishes targets for annual purchase of electric school buses through fiscal year 2030, and requires the Department of Education to submit an annual implementation report through 2029 as well as a comprehensive report in 2030 detailing fu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-03 Signed by Governor
DE	HB83	Pass	This Act requires every public school and charter school to provide students enrolled in kindergarten with an oral health screening by the last student attendance day of each school year. Notification to the parent or guardian must be done and a copy... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-03 Signed by Governor
DE	HB157	Pass	This Act prohibits a pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or scrap metal processor from purchasing or otherwise acquiring a gift card or other item in its original packaging unless the individual offering the item for sale produces a receipt or proof of pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-03 Signed by Governor
DE	SB170	Pass	This Act directs the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to work with PJM Interconnection, LLC to study the transmission impacts of offshore wind development, to work with neighboring states on offshore wind transmission, and to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-08-03 Signed by Governor
DE	SB124	Pass	This Act clarifies when reports of child abuse or neglect, including suspected human trafficking of a child, are required to be made orally to the Departments report line and when they may be made via the Departments online reporting portal. This Act... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-31 Signed by Governor
DE	SB102	Pass	This Act closes a loophole in the prevailing wage statute that was being used to pay workers below the prevailing wage by performing work offsite instead of onsite, regardless of whether it was necessary to do so. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-26 Signed by Governor
DE	HB60	Pass	To prevent Delawareans from facing exorbitant costs for potentially life-saving screenings and follow-up tests, and to allow providers to use clinical judgement in the use of breast cancer examination tools based on established national standards, th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-26 Signed by Governor
DE	HB236	Pass	This Act will continue for calendar year 2024 the temporary relief provided in calendar year 2023 to employers who pay unemployment tax assessments. It will continue to reduce new employer tax rates, hold constant overall employer tax rates from last... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-25 Signed by Governor
DE	HB242	Engross Recessed	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	HB161	Pass	This Act allows the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to assist more small businesses and organizations in making energy efficiency improvements to their facilities by raising the proportion of those projects that can be funde... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-21 Signed by Governor
DE	HB250	Engross Recessed	This bill creates a special license plate for the University of Delaware Athletics Community and Campus Recreation to promote and support the University of Delaware Athletics Community and Campus Recreations mission to provide meaningful learning exp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-21 To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee
DE	HB98	Pass	This Act creates certain uniform, minimum requirements for public notice related to permits and permit renewals issued by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. In particular, the notice must include instructions for electroni... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-21 Signed by Governor
DE	HB26	Pass	This Act provides state employees 30, rather than 15, days of paid leave per year to attend training camp or serve special duty as ordered by the military reserves or Delaware National Guard. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-17 Signed by Governor
DE	SB81	Pass	This statutory addition to Delawares Wrongful Death Act will permit the spouse, parents, children, and siblings of a deceased person to recover punitive damages when the actions resulting in the death of another person were maliciously intended or th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-07-17 Signed by Governor
DE	HB120	Pass	Speeding is a contributing factor in many serious injury motor vehicle crashes and roadway fatalities. This Act adds operating a motor vehicle at a speed of 90 miles an hour or more to the definition of reckless driving. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	HB255	Intro Recessed	This bill adds a representative from a major labor organization that represents workers performing boiler construction, installation, maintenance, and repair to the Council on Boiler Safety. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 To House Labor Committee
DE	SB75	Pass	This Act amends §134, Title 17 of the Delaware Code to allow for Secretarys designee to sign traffic resolutions within incorporated towns and cities. The same authority already exists for traffic resolutions in unincorporated areas. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	HB111	Pass	This Act increases the length of time for a valid temporary tag from 60 days to 90 days. This Act also adds a new provision requiring temporary tags be issued through a temporary tag system, approved by the Division of Motor Vehicles, to further redu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	SB160	Fail	This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2024 Bond and Capital Improvements Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	SB86	Pass	Currently, every adult operating or riding as a passenger on a motorcycle is required to have a helmet in their possession and wear eye protection while operating or riding a motorcycle and every person up to 19 years of age must wear a helmet and ey... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	SB89	Pass	This Bill allows for the use of green lights on state owned and operated snow removal equipment and vehicles during winter weather operations. Studies have shown green lights are more visible to the traveling public during winter weather conditions. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	HB94	Pass	The expectation for speed enforcement, under Delaware's Motor Vehicle statute, are Delaware's law enforcement agencies. It is not always possible for law enforcement officers to effectively enforce the speed limitations due to a number of fac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	HB92	Pass	This Act requires drivers to change lanes or reduce their speed while approaching a stationary vehicle displaying warning signals, including vehicle hazard warning lights, road flares, traffic cones, cautions signs, or any non-vehicular warning signs... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-30 Signed by Governor
DE	HCR61	Engross Recessed	This resolution encourages support for the counties of this State in their effort to research and study the needs and finances of the volunteer fire services and paid ambulance entities of the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DE	SB56	Pass	This is an omnibus bill that updates several aspects of the Delaware Public Utility Code, Title 26, including the following: (a) Expanding the public notice options for the Public Service Commission in order to reduce costs, increase transparency, an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-29 Signed by Governor
DE	HCR73	Engross Recessed	"This resolution recognizes the week of June 25th-July 1st, 2023 as "Deafblind Awareness Week." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-29 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES