| DE | HB189 | Intro
25% | This Act makes clear that corporations and other artificial entities may not be given a vote in municipal elections. Section 1 of this Act prohibits a municipality from giving corporations and other artificial entities the right to vote within the mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB20 | Engross
50% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB333 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the Delaware Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Commission. This Commission shall be tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly and Department of Technology and Information on AI utilization and safety within th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Technology & Telecommunications) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB327 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this Act is to protect victims of sexual assault, discrimination, or harassment from retaliatory lawsuits that arise when a victim of sexual assault discloses information regarding an act of sexual assault, discrimination, or harassmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB230 | Intro
25% | This Act updates House Bill 455 from the 151st General Assembly by providing the same legal protections afforded providers of contraceptive and abortion services to providers of gender-affirming health care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB147 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB197 | Engross
50% | This Act revises State procurement rules to require that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in the development of new landscaped a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Natural Resources & Energy) in House with 8 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB297 | Intro
25% | Due to the rapidly increasing costs of materials and labor, combined with the frequency in which developers have gone out of business or otherwise been unable to complete work required within developments, this Act increases the funding required to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB272 | Intro
25% | This act regulates persons who receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits earned by serving our nation in the military. This bill would not prohibit persons or business entities from receiving compensation for advice t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 2 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | SCR122 | Engross
50% | This resolution designates the week of March 11 through March 15, 2024, as Civic Learning Week in the State of Delaware to encourage schools and civic organizations to hold educational programs regarding civic duty and urge Delawareans to reflect upo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR118 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes March 7, 2024, as "Delaware Giving Day."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR87 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes Ramadan and Muslim residents of this State as they observe Ramadan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB7 | Intro
25% | This Act requires Delaware Medicaid to provide an enhancement to the acute care per diem rate for psychiatric facilities for hard to place pediatric behavioral health inpatients. The per diem enhancement is limited to an inpatient stay of 14 days. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB317 | Intro
25% | This bill creates a requirement for all sellers of third-party gift cards to display a notice of potential scams involving gift cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB307 | Intro
25% | This Act provides a tuition waiver for victims of human trafficking who are enrolled in the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, or Delaware Technical Community College.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB222 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee |
| DE | SJR3 | Pass | This resolution directs all electric utilities in Delaware that offer net metering to solar customers to participate in a cost-benefit study and analysis of net metering in Delaware being undertaken by the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility to addre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB217 | Intro
25% | This Act creates a professional loan-to-grant incentive program to encourage Delawareans to pursue careers in nursing at long-term care facilities. Funding for the incentive program is to be appropriated annually by the General Assembly, in an amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SCR113 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership and achievements of African Americans and urges the celebration of Black History Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR109 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution designates February 2024 as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR82 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution designates January 21-27, 2024 as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists' (CRNA) Week in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HCR83 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution designates the week of February 11-17, 2024, as Children of Alcoholics Week and calls upon Delawareans to break the silence and talk to their family and friends about alcoholism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR79 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution hereby designates January 23, 2024 as Maternal Health Awareness Day in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB204 | Intro
25% | Before October 1, 2020, Delaware was 1 of only 3 states that did not offer some form of adult dental coverage through Medicaid. With the enactment of Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill 92 (150th General Assembly) (Chapter 187 of Volume 82 of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB292 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Department of Elections to review every political committees contribution and expense report and to note the report, on the Departments website, as either Submitted but Not Reviewed or Reviewed and Final. If the Department disco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB106 | Enroll
75% | This Act modernizes and expands the concept of maternal mental health by replacing the definition of maternal depression with the more encompassing definition of perinatal mood and anxiety disorder. This Act contemplates treatment for any caregiver w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 4 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR76 | Engross
50% | This resolution directs the Delaware Department of Human Resources to publish a report detailing hiring and promotional practices, specifying jobs requiring degrees, outlining findings from the 18-month review of state positions, and providing insigh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB4 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 4. Like Senate Bill No. 4 this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SCR103 | Engross
50% | This Resolution establishes the Delaware Aquaculture Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HR26 | Intro
25% | This House Resolution calls upon Delawares federal delegation, President Biden, and the Presidents administration to work towards a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, including the release of all hostages and prisoners of war by both sides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
Laid On Table in House |
| DE | HB278 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that a train or light engine used to move freight by railroad have a crew of at least 2 individuals. Violation of this statute subjects the railroad to a $500 fine for a first offense, and a $1,000 fine for a second or subsequent of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB186 | Pass | This Act makes changes to the requirements for placement on the sex offender registry of individuals who are adjudicated delinquent of certain offenses. First, it reduces the number of offenses for which placement on the sex offender registry is mand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB123 | Pass | This Act provides that any adult day care facility required to be licensed under Chapter 1 of Title 16 is subject to the existing reporting obligations for facilities under Subchapter III of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB142 | Pass | This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB208 | Pass | This Act prohibits motor vehicle lessors from including licensing, title, registration, and plate fees as a separately stated mandatory charge in a rental agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB133 | Pass | The Voluntary Assessment Center was created by legislative action in 1976 (60 Del. Laws Section 509) to allow recipients of minor traffic violations to pay the fine and costs associated with the violation without the need to appear in the Justice of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB151 | Pass | This Act expressly adds the intentional restriction of another adults access to economic resources resulting in a loss of financial autonomy to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings. This Act also specifies that tangible prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB67 | Pass | This Act updates the crime of official misconduct to ensure appropriate accountability of public servants who abuse their positions of power and public trust. The statute establishes a grade in the penalty for the official misconduct to be commensura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB184 | Pass | Research has shown that certain underwriting factors used by insurers, while facially neutral, may have a disparate impact on protected classes. This bill seeks to address this disparate impact by prohibiting certain underwriting and rating factors, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB152 | Pass | This Act expands the rights of long-term care facility residents by ensuring that long-term care facility residents are entitled to care that recognizes cultural differences and preferences and that long-term care facility residents are made aware of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB145 | Pass | This 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB188 | Pass | This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB78 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of a catalytic converter and limits the purchase or sale of a catalytic converter to a licensed automotive recycler or licensed scrap metal processor, and their respective employees and agents. The Act prohibits minors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB146 | Pass | Under 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB8 | Pass | This Act is the second substitute for Senate Bill No. 8. Like Senate Bill No. 8 and its first substitute, this Act protects patients from unfair debt collection practices for medical debt, including prohibiting large health care facilities from charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB154 | Pass | This bill creates the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. The Act delineates a consumers personal data rights and provides that residents of this State will have the right to know what information is being collected about them, see the information, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB82 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Elections to biennially mail a notice to all registered voters informing the registrant of their polling place and containing the following additional information: a brief description of all available methods of vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB80 | Pass | Senate Bill No. 80 codifies the current practice in Delaware of not requiring proof of citizenship or a specific immigration status on an application for a professional license. By affirmatively providing eligibility for professional licenses regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB227 | Pass | This Act makes various amendments to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to improve compliance with its testing and reporting requirements. First, this Act requires physicians to take a training program every 2 years relating to the provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB72 | Pass | In 2017, the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Public Law No. 115-97, suspended many itemized deductions from individual federal taxes until January 1, 2026, including the itemized deduction for costs to maintain membership in a labor organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
