| DE | HB140 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2025-04-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 11 YES 8 NO 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HJR2 | Engross
50% | This House Joint Resolution directs the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to explore participating in the federal Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). The RMP is an option that states may incorporate into their Supplemental Nutrition Assista...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB79 | Engross
50% | This Act requires additional reporting and disclosure related to the use of mechanical restraint and seclusion in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB125 | Intro
25% | This Act builds on House Substitute 2 for House Bill No. 125, enacted by the 152nd General Assembly, which extended free meals to students eligible for a reduced-price meal under federal law. This Act expands the availability of free meals by making ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB81 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the time restriction that only allowed for certain teachers or specialists who were hired after August 9, 2023, to obtain additional experience credit for purposes of salary computation. This Act would allow for teachers or specialis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB82 | Intro
25% | This Act changes the period of time for which relief may be granted under a lethal violence protective order from 1 year to 5 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB110 | Enroll
75% | This Act identifies the specific categories of persons required to obtain a fingerprint-based national criminal background check in connection with working at a licensed marijuana establishment, holding a marijuana establishment license, or owning or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 3 NO 2 ABSENT |
| DE | SB10 | Intro
25% | This Act is named in honor of Richard Mouse Smith, a Delaware civil rights leader, who spent decades advocating on issues addressed by this Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB91 | Engross
50% | This Act requires schools that receive federal funding ensure students, staff, and faculty are protected from sex-based discrimination and sex-based harassment. The Act further requires schools to communicate to students, through their website, the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NO 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB26 | Engross
50% | This Act makes it unlawful to possess, operate any motor vehicle with, purchase, install, manufacture, sell, offer to sell, or otherwise distribute a number plate flipping device. A number plate flipping device means a manual, electric, or mechanical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 Favorable |
| DE | SB90 | Intro
25% | The Delaware State Inspire Scholarship Program (Inspire scholarship) pays undergraduate tuition for 8 semesters at Delaware State University (DSU). Some students complete their undergraduate degrees in less than 8 semesters because they take heavier ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR35 | Engross
50% | This House Concurrent Resolution recognizes the month of April 2025 as National Fair Housing Month in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR37 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 16, 2025, as "Health Care Decisions Day of Awareness".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | SB76 | Intro
25% | This Act replaces the phrase "United States Armed Forces or of the National Guard" with "uniformed services of the United States," and defines "uniformed services of the United States" as meaning any of the 8 of the Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Amendment SA 1 to SB 76 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SCR56 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 17, 2025, as Sigma Gamma Rho Day at the Capitol in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR53 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 21 - April 25, 2025, as "National Home Visiting Week" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB69 | Engross
50% | This Act prohibits a school district or charter school from selling or serving breakfast, lunch, or competitive food on campus during the school day that contains the color additive Red dye 40 (CAS no. 25956-17-6). Competitive foods are sold through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB16 | Enroll
75% | This Act adds a high school student to the AI Commission as a nonvoting member. The Chair of the Commission will appoint a student who is, or will be in the next school year, a tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade student in a public or private school i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | SJR3 | Engross
50% | Energy Storage Systems provide benefits to the electric grid, including grid stabilization, managing peak energy demand, and providing backup power during outages. Energy Storage Systems can provide substantial cost savings to residential, commercial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB88 | Engross
50% | This bill will improve customer service by extending the due date on toll violations from the thirty-first day to the sixty-first day, after the date the violation is transmitted. This bill amends the administrative fee by stating that the fee may be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-16
To House Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB50 | Engross
50% | This House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 50 creates the Delaware Energy Fund to provide assistance to consumers whose household income is less than 350% of the federal poverty level. Under 2025 federal guidelines, 350% of the federal poverty le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB57 | Intro
25% | This Act protects consumers by regulating home improvement contracts. Among other things, this Act provides the buyer with a right to cancel home improvement contracts within 3 days (5 days for those over the age of 62 or with a disability); limits c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | SB49 | Engross
50% | In a state of emergency, getting information to the public as quickly as possible is vital to the safety of the community. This Act provides protections to those who provide these essential communication and broadcasting services by deeming them &quo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | SCR47 | Enroll
75% | This Concurrent Resolution reestablishes the Port of Wilmington Expansion Task Force ("Task Force"). The Task Force was previously created by House Concurrent Resolution No. 38 in the 148th General Assembly and concluded that port expansion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB52 | Engross
50% | Current law allows pensioners to be employed in a Governor-appointed position or as a temporary, casual, seasonal, or substitute employee, including as a substitute teacher, but only after a 6-month separation of service period if the pensioner is un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB119 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes the following principles in regards to public library material: (1) Library material is provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all persons the library serves; (2) Library material should not be excluded, rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SCR51 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates April 2025, as the "Month of the Military Child" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB147 | Intro
25% | Delaware currently permits the nonprobate transfer of bank accounts, investments, and vehicles. This Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate without creating a revocable trust. This is done by permitting an owner of an int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB109 | Intro
25% | This Act enters Delaware into the Social Work Licensure Compact. This will allow social workers to obtain a multistate license among the member states. Delaware will join the Compact Commission that is comprised of membership of all states that have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB11 | Pass | This Act aligns state special education law with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and its implementing regulations, and also clarifies that a parents representative may obtain copies of a students special education records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB70 | Engross
50% | This Act allows licensed genetic counselors to order genetic tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SCR50 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes April 5 through 11, 2025, as Week of the Young Child in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB59 | Engross
50% | Public utilities are regulated monopolies. Practically speaking, a public utility has no competition in its service territory and, therefore, does not face the economic risks that a for-profit, non-utility company must face. By law, a public utility ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 9 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | SCR33 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution designates March 26, 2025, as "Epilepsy Awareness Day" in Delaware and calls upon State agencies and the people of Delaware to undertake suitable efforts to increase epilepsy awareness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB38 | Engross
50% | This Act provides financial support to owners who adopt a horse that retired from serving with the Department of Correction, State or Capitol police, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, or the Office of the State Fire Marsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB97 | Intro
25% | This Act ensures that a public school employee may not work directly with students unsupervised without a valid permit or license issued by the DOEs Professional Standards Boards or an approved license issued under Title 24. To that end, this Act cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR46 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution provides for a Joint Session of the Senate and the House of Representatives to be convened for the purpose of hearing an address by the Honorable Matthew S. Meyer, Governor of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB38 | Engross
50% | This Act requires an institution of higher education that receives funding from this State to keep and provide records for an elected or appointed official who is employed by the institution of higher education. The University of Delaware and Delawar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB78 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits discrimination in public schools, including school districts and charter schools, based on race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protective hairstyle, body size, pregnan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB62 | Engross
50% | This Act updates the law relating to the termination of utility services to a dwelling unit by adopting and expanding state regulations concerning the termination of heating and cooling services. Among other things, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB64 | Engross
50% | This Act requires that school board meetings have a means for the public to view and provide comment remotely.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits discrimination based on weight, height, or body size in transportation, public accommodation, housing, commerce and trade, employment, jury selection, education, and public administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB100 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution establishing that the right to marry is a fundamental right and that Delaware and its political subdivisions shall recognize marriages and issue marriage licenses to couples regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SB87 | Intro
25% | Accessory dwelling units (ADUs), also known as in-law units or garage apartments, are valuable and convenient forms of housing that can help to increase Delawares housing supply. In order to expand affordable housing opportunities, this Act requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | HB15 | Intro
25% | Like House Bill No. 15, this Act permits early childhood educators in the public schools to use and encourage play-based learning in their classrooms and in their curriculum. This Act permits local education agencies to provide early childhood profes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 15 |
| DE | SCR37 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates the Month of March 2025 as March for the Arts in Delaware to recognize the critical role that the arts play in providing a well-rounded education for Delawares youth and Delawares economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR22 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution recognizes March 31st as International Transgender Day of Visibility in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING 4 ABSENT |
| DE | SB4 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General. Under this Act, the OIG would be unique in state government as a non-political agency with a sole mission to investig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB53 | Engross
50% | This Act broadens the scope of a special fund administered by the Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing that provides telecommunications assistance to Delaware residents who have deafness, hearing loss, or speech disabilities related to deafness or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB77 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that members of school boards, including charter school boards, receive training on all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
