| 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
50% | 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 | 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 | 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
50% | 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
50% | "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 |
| DE | HB113 | Pass | This Act amends the renewal period for obtaining background checks for employees of the Department of Labor who have access to Federal Tax Information. This amendment is necessary to conform to revisions of the federal Internal Revenue Service in Pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB178 | Pass | This Act updates the makeup and duties of the Council of Apprenticeship and Training to meet the current needs of the DOL, the apprenticeship workforce, and employers. It clarifies the duties of the Council, the membership of the Council, and term li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB251 | Intro
25% | This is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to protect our communities from gun violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB30 | Pass | This Act clarifies what constitutes a sawmill under Delaware law and adds definitions related to agriculture and silviculture. This Act recognizes forest products as unadulterated materials and makes clear their importance to support a thriving indus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB119 | Engross
50% | Delaware is one of five states that does not have an open container law, which is in direct violation of federal regulations. This Bill bans open containers of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles and provides a civil penalty for an offense. A viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee |
| DE | HB63 | Pass | This bill allows pensioners to earn $50,000 (instead of $40,000) before incurring a $1.00 deduction to their state pension for every $2.00 earned over that amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR94 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes June 2023 as Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month and urges all Delawareans to wear purple to help spread awareness of Alzheimer's and all other dementia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR67 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution recognizes the month of June 2023 as Caribbean American Heritage Month in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR90 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution encourages institutions, agencies, entities, and businesses that operate within Delaware, to purchase Delaware-grown food and value-added items. The Resolution also directs the Delaware Council on Farm and Food Policy to wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB68 | Pass | This Act clarifies former HB 148 from the 151st General Assembly by defining the start and end date of the 4 year lookback period that determines if a municipality, governmental unit, the University of Delaware, or Delaware State University is subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB33 | Pass | This Act increases funding for preschool children with disabilities who are not counted in either "intensive" or "complex" special education units by revising the current ratio of 12.8 students per unit to 8.4 students per unit fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR89 | Engross
50% | This resolution requests the Office of Management and Budget to conduct an assessment of using State surplus real property for the development of affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR85 | Engross
50% | This resolution celebrates the 75th anniversary of Camp Barnes and its dedication to the youth of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR70 | Engross
50% | This Resolution designates July 26, 2023, as "Americans with Disabilities Act Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB89 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act increases the standard deduction for personal income tax purposes of resident individuals and spouses of this State for tax years beginning after December 31, 2023. Section 3 of this Act increases the monetary filing thresholds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
Amendment SA 2 to HB 89 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HCR64 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution recognizes June 25, 2023 as World Vitiligo Day in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB104 | Pass | The states pre-application process for land use process, known as PLUS, was created 20 years ago and has served to increase coordination among state and local agencies. In doing so, it has fulfilled its intent of providing predictability and consiste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR63 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes June 2023 as National Homeownership Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB102 | Pass | This Act expedites the issuance of a temporary entrance permit for commercial and economic development projects. The Act also makes technical changes to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR62 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution proclaims June 17th as Delaware Day of Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR80 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes June 15, 2023, as "Delaware Elder Abuse Awareness Day" and encourages all of Delaware's citizens to learn about how to protect and nurture our elderly citizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB181 | Intro
25% | This Act provides that a contractor is jointly or severally liable for a violation of the Delaware Contractor Registration Act by a subcontractor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
