Delaware Representative Edward Osienski [D] | Senate | Bills

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DESB164Engross
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This Act allows for correctional officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days following its enactment.
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2024-03-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB238Engross
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This Act adds "victim of kidnapping" to the definition section of the Address Confidentiality Act, allowing for kidnapping victims to become eligible for the protections offered by the Address Confidentiality Program. This amendment is reco...
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2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee
DESB215Intro
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This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB223Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-27
To House Health & Human Development Committee
DESB234Engross
50%
This bill will extend the timeframe for a customer to apply for a document fee credit refund from 15 days to 30 days. This change will improve customer service by allowing a customer more time to submit the applicable paperwork.
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2024-03-27
To House Revenue & Finance Committee
DESB239Intro
25%
This Act removes the 5-year term limit imposed upon hearing officers appointed by the Secretary of Labor. It also removes the political party affiliation rule when considering new candidates for the hearing officer position.
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2024-03-27
Laid On Table in Senate
DESB25Intro
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This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f).
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
DESB22Intro
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This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 6 Favorable
DESB244Intro
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This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DESB246Intro
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For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans.
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
DESB13Intro
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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...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB245Intro
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The Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education and the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program were created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure or already navigating the forecl...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB248Intro
25%
This Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is co-employed by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, "employer" refers to the employer client of t...
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 Favorable
DESB236Engross
50%
This bill: (a) extends the expiration date for any new issuance or renewal of an ADA placard from 3 years to 8 years for a specific person with a diagnosis of a permanent disability and changing the minimum age from 85 to 80 years or older, (b) exten...
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2024-03-26
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee
DESB235Engross
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This Act brings the State in compliance with the federal regulation published by FMCSA on October 7, 2021, to establish a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse as mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). This act ...
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2024-03-26
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee
DESB229Intro
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This Act extends the right of employees to inspect their own personnel files to former employees. Under this Act, an employer must permit a former employee to inspect the employee's own personnel files that exist at the time of the request. This ...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Labor Committee
DESB255Intro
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This Act does the following:
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2024-03-21
To Senate Labor Committee
DESB256Intro
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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 ...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
DESB202Engross
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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...
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2024-03-14
Amendment HA 1 to SB 202 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DESB20Engross
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The primary purpose of this Act is to remove the requirement that a public school district employee who donates leave to another employee must donate 2 days of leave for the other employee to receive 1 day of leave.
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
DESB233Intro
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This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following:
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
DESB147Engross
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This Act creates a narrow exception to the computer crimes under §§ 932, 933, and 935 of Title 11 because these crimes contain elements broad enough to include actions employees may take to document or report an employers violation of state or fede...
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2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee
DESB122PassThis Act authorizes the Office of the Child Advocate and Office of the Investigation Coordinator to provide child victim data and information to the Office of Investigative Services during presentence investigations of defendants convicted of felony ...
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2024-03-07
Signed by Governor
DESB121PassThis Act codifies that the Child Protection Accountability Commission, in conjunction with the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families, is responsible for developing, maintaining, and conducting child abuse mandatory reporting,...
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2024-03-07
Signed by Governor
DESB222Intro
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This legislation closes a loophole in the current law which allows 100% of the work being completed on a jobsite to be done by workers only possessing an apprentice license. Currently, under Delaware law, an apprentice license can be acquired with li...
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2024-02-29
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee
DESB200Intro
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This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of c...
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2024-01-24
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
DESB195Intro
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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...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB128PassThis 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...
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2023-09-21
Signed by Governor
DESB36PassThis 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...
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2023-09-21
Signed by Governor
DESB145PassThis 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...
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2023-09-11
Signed by Governor
DESB146PassUnder 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 ...
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2023-09-11
Signed by Governor
DESB182PassThis Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 182. Like Senate Bill No. 182, this act does all of the following:
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2023-08-31
Signed by Governor
DESB92PassThis 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.
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2023-08-17
Signed by Governor
DESB93PassThis 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...
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2023-08-17
Signed by Governor
DESB156PassUnder 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...
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2023-08-09
Signed by Governor
DESB32PassThe bill adds visual impairments including blindness to the list of programs to be conducted on a 12-month schedule.
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2023-08-03
Signed by Governor
DESB170PassThis 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...
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2023-08-03
Signed by Governor
DESB124PassThis 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...
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2023-07-31
Signed by Governor
DESB102PassThis 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.
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2023-07-26
Signed by Governor
DESB81PassThis 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...
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2023-07-17
Signed by Governor
DESB75PassThis 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.
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2023-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB160FailThis Bill is the Fiscal Year 2024 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
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2023-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB86PassCurrently, 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...
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2023-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB89PassThis 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.
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2023-06-30
Signed by Governor
DESB56PassThis 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...
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2023-06-29
Signed by Governor
DESB30PassThis 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...
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2023-06-28
Signed by Governor
DESB181Intro
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This Act provides that a contractor is jointly or severally liable for a violation of the Delaware Contractor Registration Act by a subcontractor.
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2023-06-15
To Senate Labor Committee
DESB94Intro
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The State of Delaware previously offered an employer match for state employee contributions to the deferred compensation program. The purpose of the match was to help state employees save and build wealth for retirement and to enable state government...
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2023-05-17
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB130Intro
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This Act prohibits restrictive covenants that prohibit or unreasonably restricts the owner of real property from installing or using a clothesline. The average electric dryer requires 2.1 kilowatt hours (kwh) to complete each load of laundry, althoug...
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2023-05-16
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee
DESB127Intro
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This Act adds different levels of criminal liability based on the specifics of a case for directors or managers of facilities who fail to take corrective action to protect patients or residents from criminal activity.
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2023-05-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
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