| DE | HB72 | Intro | This Act creates the position of Deputy Commissioner of Correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
Suspension of Rules in House |
| DE | SB44 | Intro | This Act allows the Drug Overdose Fatality Review Commission ("Commission") to review all deaths related to a drug overdose, regardless of the type of drug implicated in the overdose death. This change will allow the Commission to obtain an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 10:00 am]
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB110 | Intro | Current Delaware regulations provide that transportation benefits must be provided for students in grades K through 6 who live 1 or more miles from the schools to which district administrators would normally assign them. In grades 7 through 12, the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB97 | Intro | This Act prohibits the seller of consumer goods or services from refusing to accept cash payment, except in limited circumstances. It creates graduated civil penalties for violations and provides consumers a private right of action to recover double ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB2 | Intro | This bill repeals certain provisions in Title 11 relating to abortion including provisions which treat abortion differently than other medical procedures, and provisions which criminalize women and the sale of medical devices and medicines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB31 | Intro | This bill repeals certain provisions in Title 11 relating to abortion including provisions which treat abortion differently than other medical procedures, and provisions which criminalize women and the sale of medical devices and medicines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SB77 | Intro | This Act clarifies that a lay individual who administers naloxone under the Community-Based Naloxone Access Program is protected from civil liability for rendering emergency care under § 6801 of Title 16, the general Good Samaritan law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB76 | Intro | This Act authorizes the distribution of testing strips to determine the presence of fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Fentanyl testing strips could be distributed to the community along with opioid overdose reversal medication as a harm reduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB10 | Intro | This Act adopts the Agreement to Phase-Out Corporate Giveaways, under which member states are prohibited from offering or providing company-specific tax incentives or grants to an entity as inducement for the entity to physically relocate to the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB73 | Intro | This Act permits an individual to practice dentistry for the Division of Public Health (Division) under a provisional license. Delaware law provides several routes for entering practice on an interim basis until full licensure can be obtained, howeve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB66 | Intro | This Act exempts an individual from having to pay the revoked license or driving privileges reinstatement fee if the individual is eligible for and applies for reinstatement of the individuals license or driving privileges within 1 year of their rele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB68 | Intro | This Act expands eligibility for the Department of Correction's Education Assistance Fund beyond correctional officers to employees who hold a position at paygrade 15 or below and meet the other existing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:30 am]
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB72 | Intro | This Act clarifies that discrimination against any person because of religion is illegal under Chapter 45 of Title 6, the Delaware Equal Accommodations Act. Religion and religious beliefs were always intended to be protected under the Delaware Equal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | SB75 | Intro | This Act revises the Fair Housing Act to repeal the exception to discrimination based on source of income that allows a landlord to discriminate against tenants who participate in government-sponsored rental assistance programs. This exemption contri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| DE | SB32 | Engross | A 2019 study found the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 11:00 am]
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB21 | Engross | This Act amends the Delaware Energy Act to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in the State by creating more accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Energy Committee |
| DE | HB107 | Intro | In the 1943 decision West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 63 S. Ct. 1178, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a public school requirement that students salute the flag or face punishment violated the First Amendment of the Constitution be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB102 | Intro | This Act removes the broad exemption in the Freedom of Information Act for the University of Delaware and Delaware State University and creates the following specific exemptions for some records of public institutions:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB108 | Intro | This act restores the $500 senior real property tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB111 | Intro | Individuals who are at very high risk of getting HIV can take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. PrEP medication reduces the risk of HIV transmission by up to 99% if taken daily. This Act prohibits disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB103 | Intro | This bill clarifies definitions relating to airbags, counterfeit supplemental restraint system components, nonfunctional airbags, and supplemental restraint systems, and prohibited trade practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SB42 | Pass | This Act suspends the educator evaluation system during the 2020-2021 school year and replaces it with an observation and feedback cycle that provides educators with coaching and support related to hybrid and remote learning practices. This Act provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB60 | Intro | This Act allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to recommend medical marijuana for adult patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB33 | Pass | This Act modifies the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act to do the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB65 | Pass | This bill provides COVID-19 related relief to both claimants receiving unemployment benefits and employers who are assessed unemployment taxes, and extends the end date of the Secretary of Labors COVID-19 related rulemaking authority. Section 1 waive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB31 | Enroll | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment to add race, color, and national origin to § 21 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution to explicitly declare that protection against discrimination based on race, color, and national origin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB56 | Intro | This Act codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how the funding is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:30 am]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HR5 | Intro | This House Resolution condemns the violence at and assault on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021; commits the House of Representatives to peaceful, thoughtful, and respectful discourse in the conduct of public business; and expresses gratit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB100 | Intro | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware elementary schools. The unit is at a ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades K-5 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB91 | Intro | This Act amends Delawares Consumer Fraud Act (Subchapter II, Chapter 25, Title 6 of the Code), to give Delaware consumers and businesses the protection against unfair acts or practices in commerce that the General Assembly intended to give them when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB94 | Intro | The minimum wage for employees who receive tips or gratuities has not changed since 1983, when the overall state minimum wage was $3.35 per hour. Tipped wage workers at that time were paid a percentage 66.67% of the minimum wage, which was $2.23 pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB33 | Intro | This bill changes the relationship between physicians and physician assistants from supervisory to collaborative, in recognition of the evolving role of physician assistants and reflecting the education, training, and experience required for licensin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB87 | Intro | This bill increases the membership of the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council to 24 members by adding representatives from the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Criminal Justice Council, the Department of Transportation, and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB88 | Intro | This bill removes the training minimum wage and youth minimum wage, which takes effect 90 days after enactment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB86 | Intro | This Act provides increased funding for kindergarten through third grade students identified as eligible for basic special education services. Currently, basic special education is provided for students in fourth through twelfth grade who are identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SCR8 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution declares that gun violence is a public health crisis, that ending the gun violence devastating Delaware is a policy priority, and supporting policy and legislative solutions that will make schools safe, confront arme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO |
| DE | HB16 | Intro | Section 1 of this Act modifies Delawares Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to allow recipients to choose the most beneficial credit to be applied against their Delaware Personal Income Taxes. Under this Act, recipients can choose between a non-refundab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 11 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB73 | Intro | This Act reflects a recommendation of the 2019 Comprehensive Reentry Plan and Progress Report which allows the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole officers the flexibility to recommend to a court house arrest (Level IV home confinement) f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB37 | Intro | Delaware, like the rest of the country and the world, has been struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic since March of 2020. The worst outbreaks have occurred in facilities where people live and/or work in tight communal settings long-term care facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB49 | Intro | This act clarifies that the University of Delaware, like other institutes of higher learning including Delaware State University and Delaware Technical and Community College, must comply with the terms of the Prevailing Wage Law for projects secured ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | HB20 | Intro | This bill requires all public and charter schools which have students in grades 6-12 to provide free feminine hygiene products in 50% of the bathrooms used by students who can have a menstrual cycle. This bill also requires schools to publish on its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB48 | Intro | This Act establishes a Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program for new primary care providers to be administered by the Delaware Health Care Commission. Under the loan repayment program, the Health Care Commission may award education loan repayme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB75 | Intro | This Act is the final leg of a constitutional amendment that would eliminate from the Delaware Constitution the limitations as to when an individual may vote by absentee ballot. This amendment to the Delaware Constitution provides that the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | SCR4 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution proclaims January 23, 2021, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB80 | Intro | This bill provides that for correction officers and specified peace officers, the amount of ordinary service or disability pension benefits given to state employees shall also include the following: (1) Before January 1, 2022, 2.45% of his or her fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB74 | Intro | This Act reaffirms the Constitutional requirement that the General Assembly appropriate money belonging to the General Fund by making clear that funds received by the State or a State agency from settlements or other final orders or judgments, other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-19
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB69 | Intro | This bill establishes a 2-year residential drinking water purification system pilot program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services with funding through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB29 | Intro | This Act eliminates the ability of a candidate to change their candidacy to become a candidate for a different office after the deadline for notification of candidacy has passed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 Favorable |
| DE | HB64 | Intro | This Act creates the following new tax brackets: at $125,000, with a rate of 7.10%, at $250,000, with a rate of 7.85%, and at $500,000, with a rate of 8.6%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB39 | Intro | This bill requires that inadvertent out-of-network services be included in individual and group health insurance policies as well as group and blank health insurance policies. This bill defines inadvertent out-of-network services are those services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-18
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
