| DE | HB372 | Engross
Sine Die | This Substitute bill clarifies that the definition of day does not include Saturday, Sunday, any federal holiday, or any State legal holiday when the specified number of days is 12 or less. When the specified number of days is more than 12 days, day ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB270 | Pass | This Act is the statutory recognition of the recommendations set forth in the June 2, 2023, report of the DEFAC Benchmark Evaluation and Review Panel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB274 | Enroll
Sine Die | Affordable housing is key to building strong communities and neighborhoods. This act provides that the developer of a residential subdivision is provided a percentage credit towards the expense of offsite improvements to state-maintained highways con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB289 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act amends Title 16, Chapter 76 of the Delaware Code relating to energy conservation identified in county and municipal building and plumbing codes. Consistent with codes in other States, including New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, among o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB389 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Substitute for House Bill No. 389, like House Bill No. 389, provides for an annual raffle license that will allow a licensee to hold up to 20 raffle events each year, requires the licensee to notify the Board at least 7 days prior to a raffle ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB299 | Enroll
Sine Die | Under Title 29, Section 5805, no state employee, no state officer, and no private enterprise in which a state employee or state officer has a legal or equitable ownership of more than 10% (more than 1% in the case of a corporation whose stock is regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB300 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires crisis pregnancy centers in this state to provide notice if the center is not licensed by this state as a medical facility and does not have a licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises, in person, the provision o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 15 NO 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SB301 | Enroll
Sine Die | Like Senate Bill No. 301, this Act, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 301 requires public universities in this state to provide access to medication for the termination of pregnancy and emergency contraception. The medication and contracept...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 16 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB265 | Enroll
Sine Die | The Delaware Energy Solutions Act of 2024 authorizes processes necessary to help meet the net zero goals of the Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023. The bill facilitates a transition to carbon-free energy sources by (i) preparing for offshore wind t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 15 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB419 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB439 | Enroll
Sine Die | Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in housing and property transactions. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB423 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act permits a farm winery to apply for a license for use of a portion of the farm winery premises as a restaurant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB440 | Enroll
Sine Die | Delaware law prohibits discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics in employment and professional activities. This Act would add "housing status" as a protected characteristic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO |
| DE | HB411 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill seeks to amend sections of Chapter 66 concerning the members of Delaware Volunteer Fire Departments. This bill will hold current members to the same standards as applicants with relation to criminal activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB314 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act removes supervision from the scope of practice of a masters social worker. This Act also prohibits a masters social worker from providing supervision to a licensed clinical social worker applicant. The Board of Social Work Examiners (Board) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB318 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill enables the Delaware Nutrient Management Commission to regulate the application of nutrients to turf by commercial nutrient handlers. The law excludes athletic fields, golf courses, and land used in the production for sale of sod or seed an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB404 | Enroll
Sine Die | To address the significant spread and impact of Lyme Disease in Delaware, this bill creates a Lyme Disease intervention fund. The fund shall be overseen by the Department of Agriculture and shall have the goal of reducing the prevalence of Lyme disea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB329 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act defines United States military pension for the exclusion for taxable income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB465 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act provides resources to microbusinesses that could be successful but lack sufficient resources to effectively implement their business plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB264 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act makes the crime of patronizing a prostitute a class E felony rather than a misdemeanor where the person from whom prostitution is sought is a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB455 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a 10-year program to address the lack of affordable housing in Delaware by establishing statewide limitations on the amount that rent can be increased as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
To House Housing Committee |
| DE | HB70 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the persons 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the persons natural li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO |
| DE | HB275 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act updates the definition of "sexual orientation" throughout the Delaware Code by adding asexuality and pansexuality. Asexuality refers to individuals with little to no sexual attraction to other individuals, although asexual individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO |
| DE | HB267 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a persons license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB282 | Veto | This Act adds procedural requirements to meetings of the State Employee Benefits Committee (SEBC), revises the membership of the SEBC, and requires that the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources inform State employees and retired State emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Enacted into Law |
| DE | HB308 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act mandates that employees of institutions of higher education and students receive training in sexual assault prevention. Although the current law makes training available, it has not been required. This Act further changes the reporting perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB24 | Pass | This Act creates a new charitable donation option on the Delaware income tax return. It allows taxpayers to direct a donation to the SL24: Unlocke the Light Foundation out of their state tax refund or in addition to the payment of owed tax. The Found...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB299 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is the Delaware Libraries for All Act. It explicitly adds public libraries to the definition of place of public accommodation for purposes of Delawares Equal Accommodations Law. It also directs the Delaware Library Consortium to develop and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB332 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB347 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act entitles non-exempt Delaware Department of Transportation employees who work over 37.5 hours to be paid at time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB353 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act provides civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful disclosure of deep fakes that depict individuals in the nude or engaging in sexual conduct. It provides the same remedies as those available under: (1) the Delaware Uniform Civil Remedies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB254 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB237 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act amends the provisions in Title 9 of the Delaware Code relating to the county comprehensive plans for Sussex, Kent, and New Castle Counties, and Title 22 of the Delaware Code relating to municipal comprehensive plans for municipalities with p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 12 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB366 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act sunsets the Technology Investment Council ("TIC"). The Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("JLOSC") reviewed TIC in 2022 and, as a result of the review, JLOSC sponsored House Bill No. 357 of the 151st Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB368 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Provider Advisory Board ("Board"). Based on its findings, JLOSC recommended sunsetting the Board, which is addressed in sep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB367 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act sunsets the Provider Advisory Board (Board) and is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Board. The Board was created in 2011 at JLOSC's recommendation when it reviewed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB198 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB362 | Enroll
Sine Die | In 2023, the General Assembly passed House Bill 80, which required the coverage of doula services under the States Medicaid plan beginning in 2024. This Act would require similar coverage under private health insurance plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB273 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act legalizes the sale and distribution of raw milk and products derived from raw milk by dairy producers directly to consumers for human consumption. This Act also removes the unused definitions of Delaware fresh milk and northeastern fresh mil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 NO |
| DE | HB280 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB393 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of Adult Protective Services ("APS"). JLOSC approved recommendations to modify several areas of the APS statute, Chapter 39 of Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB426 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act ensures that pregnant women in DOC custody, at Level IV or V, are able to meet with a doula or midwife to create a birth plan surrounding the birth of their child. Among other things, the birth plan must include a statement identifying a pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB247 | Enroll
Sine Die | There were 139 traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2021, the highest number of traffic fatalities since 2006. Senate Concurrent Resolution 94 of the 151st Delaware General Assembly set a goal of no more than 100 traffic fatalities per year and tasked s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | HB204 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses and other staff positions in long-term care facilities in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB281 | Pass | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB253 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for House Bill 253. Like HB 253, it requires health insurance companies, including State employee/retiree health plans and Medicaid, to cover annual mammograms for the purpose of early detection for a woman 40 years of age or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB203 | Enroll
Sine Die | Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| DE | HB293 | Enroll
Sine Die | Federal and Delaware law protect the right to vote and the rights of individuals with disabilities to have equal access to voting places and public facilities. Nonetheless, recent information suggests that a substantial number of polling places in De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB233 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 13 NO 3 ABSENT |
| DE | HB190 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill updates the current law relating to the Spay Neuter Fund and the administration of that fund to make it easier to administer the fund and animal population control programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
