| DE | SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-20
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act updates the procedures governing the transfer of a manufactured home located in a manufactured home community in order to provide a clearer process and reduce ambiguities that allowed some community owners to prevent the transfer of a lease ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | HB272 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-05-16
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | HB162 | Pass | House Bill 162 authorizes the process of natural organic reduction to be used in this State. Natural organic reduction is the gentle, respectful process that accelerates the decomposition of human remains to soil. This process uses large vessels to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes the Office of New Americans to help improve the lives and economic prosperity of new Americans who come to Delaware and of all Delawareans generally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act replaces a temporary hospital cost containment provision from the implementing legislation for the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board that was based on Medicare reference pricing with a provision that limits growth based on a formula a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | This Bill institutes a State nontidal wetlands program and leaves intact the current State tidal wetlands program under Chapter 66 of Title 7. Prior to these amendments, the only regulatory protection of the State's nontidal wetlands was through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB276 | Pass | This bill names the Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | The Act allows the Kent County Levy Court to impose a lodging tax not greater than 3% in Kent County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-07
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB220 | Pass | Medicaid is generally the payer of last resort, meaning that Medicaid only pays claims for covered items and services if there are no other liable third-party payers for the same items and services. When Medicaid beneficiaries have one or more additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB381 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires the Delaware Real Estate Commission to create a comprehensive, statewide rights & responsibilities guide (guide) for landlords and tenants. This guide will reference responsibilities that a tenant or landlord must follow, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB271 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies portions of Chapter 49 of Title 6 and Chapter 63 of Title 21 of the Delaware Code pertaining to motor vehicle dealers. These additions and modifications are intended to further improve our States franchise laws and ensure that Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | HB59 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act establishes a residential drinking water purification system program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB164 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act allows for correctional officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days following its enactment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act limits the use of plastic and other beverage container rings, as well as plastic shrink wraps and plastic tops used to connect beverages, by expanding the definitions of beverage and beverage container and prohibiting beverages from being so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act creates a scholarship for students who have completed a Delaware Teacher Academy and are enrolled in a Delaware Educator Preparation Program. This scholarship supplements the Educator Support Scholarship and is intended to fill a $2500 fundi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB55 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act is the Bill of Rights for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness to ensure that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act modifies the eligibility standard from 100% disability to 80% disability or greater for veterans to qualify for the credit against taxation on qualified property and corrects a typographical error.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act clarifies that elected officials may not be prevented from engaging in constituent relations and that candidates for public office or staff or volunteers may not be prevented from engaging in election-related or similar activities in residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act requires the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (Division) to produce a report by March 31, 2025, that documents home care services as measured using the most common billing codes for the home care industry. The Act identifies the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act extends the right of employees to inspect their own personnel files to former employees. Under this Act, an employer must permit a former employee to inspect the employee's own personnel files that exist at the time of the request. This ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | HB15 | Pass | This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB189 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB147 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB122 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Office of the Child Advocate and Office of the Investigation Coordinator to provide child victim data and information to the Office of Investigative Services during presentence investigations of defendants convicted of felony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB121 | Pass | This Act codifies that the Child Protection Accountability Commission, in conjunction with the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families, is responsible for developing, maintaining, and conducting child abuse mandatory reporting,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB306 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act permits the Division of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle that is operated in violation of the law requiring stopping for school buses as evidenced by School Bus Safety Cameras.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Motion to Release Failed |
| DE | HB7 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB307 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | HB116 | Pass | This Act requires public institutions of higher learning to grant credit for advanced placement examination scores of 3 or higher. An instution may require a score higher than 3 if the credit is to be used for meeting a course requirement for a parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB122 | Pass | This Act updates and streamlines the State Nutrient Management Program within the Department of Agriculture. It expands and clarifies information required to be included in the Nutrient Management Plan, including, among other things:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB225 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate to help underwrite Youth and Conservation Day for the Delaware Ducks Unlimited youth members known as Greenwings. Greenwings are younger Ducks Unlimited members who participate in the conservation, restoratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB91 | Pass | This Act creates a new offense of Aggravated Criminal Mischief with enhanced penalties (class D felony) applicable when an individual knowingly damages or tampers with critical utility infrastructure intending to disrupt utility services. In recent y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Section 1 of this Act makes a pattern or practice of violations by a landlord of a Manufactured Home Community of subchapters I through V of Chapter 70 of Title 25 of the Delaware Code, or a provision of a rental agreement, an unlawful practice under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB106 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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 | HB278 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB241 | Intro
Sine Die | This Act makes clear that buyers and renters of residential real property have the right to be accompanied by advisors during all phases of the property transfer process, and requires sellers and landlords to provide written notice of this right to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-14
Amendment HA 1 to HB 241 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB187 | Pass | This Act expands the Video Lottery Intercept Program by requiring an operator of a video lottery facility to submit an individual's winnings from sports betting and table games to the Division of Child Support Services to satisfy delinquent child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-18
Signed by Governor |
| 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 | HB198 | Pass | This Act is a comprehensive amendment of the Town Charter for the Town of Clayton. It sets forth detailed basis for removal from office of Mayor and Town Council and process for filling any vacancies on Town Council. The Amendment allows the Mayor an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-10-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB6 | Pass | In 1682 or 1683, the Sussex County Court, created by William Penn, created the land grant that is the subject of this Act (Warner Grant). As this Act describes, the Warner Grant consists of land in and adjacent to the City of Lewes largely consisting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB141 | Pass | This Act establishes updated, detailed standards for the practice of hearing aid dispensing. Definitions are added to specify that the standards and requirements pertaining hearing aid dispensing apply to prescription hearing aids only and not to ove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB185 | Pass | This legislation prioritizes recruitment and retention of State employees by removing the 3-month waiting period for the state to pay its share of premium or subscription charges for health care coverage under § 5202 of Title 29 for benefit eligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB46 | Pass | According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year.
[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 |
