| DE | HB29 | Enroll
Sine Die | Each year, the Department of Education (Department) publishes data regarding all Delaware public schools, currently known as School Performance Data Reports (reports). These reports are available on the Departments website as the Delaware Report Card...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| DE | SB4 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-07-01
Passed By House. Votes: 30 YES 1 NO 9 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| DE | SB61 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill requires disclosure of votes cast at meetings of, or matters before, the PJM Interconnection Regional Transmission Organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SJR3 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-07-01
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB190 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act creates a new Grant-in-Aid Subcommittee (Subcommittee) of the Joint Finance Committee and codifies requirements and procedures for organizations seeking a grant-in-aid from the General Assembly. The Subcommittee will be composed of 3 members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Laid On Table in Senate |
| DE | SB7 | Pass | This Act is based on Senate Substitute No. 3 for Senate Bill No. 4 of the 152nd General Assembly, which modernizes Delawares probation system, including by directing the courts, the Board of Parole, and the Bureau of Community Corrections to use the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB21 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act bans the sale of Tianeptine in the State by identifying it as a Schedule I controlled substance. Tianeptine, also known as gas station heroin, is an antidepressant drug that is not approved by the FDA and is being sold as a dietary supplemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 3 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB6 | Pass | This Act allows the Auditor of Accounts to issue subpoenas directly, removing a requirement that the Auditor first file a praecipe with the Superior Court prothonotary. It also allows the Auditor to effect service of such a subpoena, and to apply for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB15 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HJR2 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB55 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is intended to supplement protections under federal law for members of the military, their families, and veterans by adding military status as a protected class for purposes of the States public accommodations, housing, insurance, education,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB48 | Enroll
Sine Die | HS 2 to HB 48 seeks to streamline accessible parking laws and improve enforcement of accessible parking laws in Delaware. Although federal and state laws currently require specific design and construction requirements for accessible spaces, these law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB72 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires the Division of Public Health (Division) to create a website where Delaware residents can find out the level of PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, in their public drinking water systems. This Act also requires the Division to no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB77 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires that members of school boards, including charter school boards, receive training on all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB82 | Pass | This Act requires that a school board candidate and member be an inhabitant of the district, or designated portion of a district, that member represents. Inhabitant is defined for this purpose as a person who both claims legal residence and physicall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB105 | Enroll
Sine Die | Pay range transparency empowers job applicants with crucial information to negotiate salaries and make informed career decisions. It also encourages businesses to proactively review compensation practices, address unjustified pay disparities, and str...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 4 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB10 | Enroll
Sine Die | Currently, the Department of Correction (Department) biennially reviews individuals sentenced to more than 1 year of incarceration to determine if there is good cause to recommend a sentence modification to the Board of Parole for an individual who i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 NO |
| DE | SB86 | Enroll
Sine Die | Currently, the Delaware Volunteer Fire Service Revolving Loan Fund may only obtain funding from the General Assembly through appropriation. This Act would allow for funding and donations to be made by any person, charitable organizations, and countie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | SB91 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB107 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act enacts the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists (Compact), which is designed to facilitate the interstate practice of school psychology in educational settings. School-based mental health services are in high demand in Delaware, but w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB116 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act provides the Public Service Commission with the flexibility to consider and approve a discounted gas or electric residential utility rate for qualified low-income customers, provided the discount is 20% of standard residential distribution r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 14 NO 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB119 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 6 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB109 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB153 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act prohibits arrest or detention by any person who does not have explicit statutory authority to carry out an arrest or detention. The intent of this provision is to eliminate any doubt that a citizens arrest is not permitted in Delaware. Peace...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 NO |
| DE | HB142 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act eliminates authorization for a warrantless arrest by a private person in the case of an individual accused in the courts of another state of a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| DE | HB157 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act repeals the Hearing Aid Loan Bank Program, as the program is no longer operational. The Program was created pursuant to Volume 74, Chapter 109 of the Laws of Delaware (2003), for the purpose of lending hearing aids on a temporary basis to ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB139 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault by doing all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB37 | Enroll
Sine Die | The Delaware Equal Accommodations Law, Chapter 45 of Title 6, prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on the basis of race, age, marital status, creed, religion, color, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | SB155 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act makes several changes to the Delaware Nursing Home Residents Quality Assurance Commission ("Commission"):
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | SB159 | Pass | This Act requires the permitting of an electric substation as an allowed conditional use in a heavy industrial zone under certain conditions set forth in the Act, including that the electrical substation is being constructed to support the operation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB182 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act prohibits law-enforcement agencies from entering into agreements with federal immigration enforcement authorities to enforce immigration violations or share immigration enforcement related data.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 3 NO 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB205 | Enroll
Sine Die | The purpose of this Act is to protect medical providers in the State from out-of-state lawsuits and investigations that threaten the practice of medicine in the State. To that end this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB210 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act seeks to update the fine structure for major commercial polluters. In addition, this Act increases the amount of penalty funds directed to communities near facilities with violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | SB175 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act strikes the provisions in § 1014 (d) and (e) of Title 26, which allow Commission-regulated electric utilities, municipal electric companies, electric cooperatives, and electric distribution companies not to reimburse, credit, or otherwise r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB220 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires a peace officer to consider issuing a juvenile civil citation to a qualified juvenile offender who would otherwise be charged only with specified offenses, and requires that if the peace officer decides not to issue a civil citation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB156 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 156. Like Senate Bill No. 156, this Substitute prohibits the reporting of medical debt to consumer reporting agencies and prohibits any medical debt from being included on a consumer report. Since 2023, at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB234 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would establish a fundamental right for all employees to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of negotiating wages, hours, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB35 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO |
| DE | HB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Like House Bill No. 155, this Act ensures that State Public Integrity Commission reports be made available to the public on the Commission's website. House Substitute 1 for HB 155 clarifies that reports filed with the State Public Integrity Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-27
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 155 |
| DE | SB60 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires the Delaware Public Service Commission to ensure that all regulated utilities do not use customer funds to subsidize unregulated activities for example, lobbying activities, political contributions, charitable contributions, and cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB59 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| DE | HB54 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act establishes the Office of Suicide Prevention to address suicide prevention and to do the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB87 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act adds 2 members, appointed by the Governor, to the Delaware Suicide Prevention Coalition. The 2 new members shall be: 1 member who has experienced suicide ideation or survived a suicide attempt, and 1 member who has lost a loved one to suicid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB83 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act amends the long-term care residents bill of rights to provide that residents may not be subject to discrimination based on their membership in a protected class. Specifically, this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | SB81 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| DE | SB130 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act prohibits retail stores and wholesalers from selling, distributing, or offering for sale in this State expanded polystyrene foam food service packaging products, most expanded polystyrene foam coolers, and expanded polystyrene foam loose fil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB156 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act updates Chapter 10A of Title 16, the Healthcare-Associated Infections Disclosure Act, to ensure consistency with correct terminology, such as psychiatric changes to behavioral health facilities and to adherence to Centers for Disease Control...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB158 | Enroll
Sine Die | The Public Health Emergency Planning Commission was established in 2002 and directed to deliver to the Governor a plan for responding to a public health emergency that addressed at least 21 specific provisions. Since then, that single plan has evolve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HJR3 | Enroll
Sine Die | Grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) offer efficient tools to increase power grid capacity without the need for new transmission lines. Studies demonstrate that these innovations can double renewable energy integration, create hundreds of thousands of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB182 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act allows drug manufacturers or their agents and wholesalers to ship dialysate drugs and devices directly to home dialysis patients without a pharmacy license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
