Delaware Senator Kyra Hoffner [D] | Bills | Introduced

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DEHB465Intro
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This Act provides resources to microbusinesses that could be successful but lack sufficient resources to effectively implement their business plans.
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2024-06-30
To House Administration Committee
DEHB455Intro
25%
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:
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2024-06-28
To House Housing Committee
DEHB399Intro
25%
This Act creates a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by a cabinet-level Secretary appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department will take over most of the duties currently handled by the Comm...
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2024-06-20
Amendment HA 1 to HB 399 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB380Intro
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This Act makes technical changes for clarity by adding a definition of mental condition to the Code section that deals with relinquishment of firearms for persons who may be a danger to self or others (also known as a red flag law). It also extends t...
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2024-06-18
Not Worked in Committee
DESB321Intro
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This Act codifies rights afforded to persons with disabilities that are under guardianships pursuant to Chapters 39 and 39A in Title 12 of the Delaware Code. This Act also grants persons with disabilities the ability to motion the Court of Chancery f...
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2024-06-18
Amendment SA 1 to SB 321 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB448Intro
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This bill allows Delaware residents age 60 and older to deduct their full pensions or other qualified retirement income from State taxable income. This bill contains technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legis...
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2024-06-18
To House Revenue & Finance Committee
DESB332Intro
25%
This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services, in consultation with persons interested in the sale and pricing of prescription drugs as well as interested federal and state officials and agencies, to design and implement a wholesale ...
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2024-06-13
To Senate Executive Committee
DEHB443Intro
25%
This Act requires the Delaware State Housing Authority to establish and administer Low Barrier Navigation Centers (LBNCs). LBNCs are non-congregate, interim housing facilities designed to rapidly transition individuals or families into permanent hous...
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2024-06-12
To House Housing Committee
DEHB203Intro
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With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admit...
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2024-06-11
Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DESB180Intro
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This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 180. Like Senate Bill No. 180, this Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution that does all of the following:
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2024-06-11
was introduced and adopted in lieu of SB 180
DESB322Intro
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This Act updates the Grace Firestone Act to strengthen regulations for member schools regarding sudden cardiac arrest. The Act requires member schools to develop an athletic emergency action plan and have an automated external defibrillator (AED) les...
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2024-06-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
DEHB441Intro
25%
This Act encourages patients to choose physical therapy, occupational therapy, and neuromuscular massage therapy as a safe alternative to opioid use for managing acute and chronic pain by doing the following:
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2024-06-06
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DEHB394Intro
25%
This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Health Resources Board, which this Act renames the Delaware Health Resources Advisory Board ("Advisory Board"). Ba...
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2024-05-22
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB415Intro
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This Act ensures that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opportunities. To that end, this Act sets forth the rights of individual...
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2024-05-21
To House Judiciary Committee
DESB23Intro
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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 ...
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2024-05-20
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee
DESB310Intro
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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 ...
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2024-05-20
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee
DESB44Intro
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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.
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2024-05-15
Amendment SA 1 to SB 44 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DEHB395Intro
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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...
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2024-05-14
Stricken in House
DESB290Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-05-08
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee
DESB288Intro
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The Act allows the Kent County Levy Court to impose a lodging tax not greater than 3% in Kent County.
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2024-05-07
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee
DEHB381Intro
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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...
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2024-04-25
Reported Out of Committee (Housing) in House with 8 On Its Merits
DESB271Intro
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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...
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2024-04-24
Stricken in Senate
DEHB59Intro
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This Act establishes a residential drinking water purification system program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services.
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2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee
DESB263Intro
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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...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee
DEHB331Intro
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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...
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2024-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB55Intro
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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...
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2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee
DEHB303Intro
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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.
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2024-03-27
Not Worked in Committee
DESB230Intro
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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...
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2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DESB240Intro
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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...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee
DEHB115Intro
25%
This Act does all of the following:
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2024-03-21
Stricken in House
DESB229Intro
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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 ...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Labor Committee
DEHB189Intro
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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...
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2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits
DEHB306Intro
25%
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.
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2024-03-06
Motion to Release Failed
DEHB7Intro
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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...
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2024-03-05
Stricken in House
DEHB307Intro
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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.
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2024-02-29
To House Education Committee
DESB222Intro
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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...
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2024-02-29
To Senate Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee
DESB217Intro
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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...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee
DESB204Intro
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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...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee
DEHB278Intro
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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...
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2024-01-09
To House Transportation Committee
DEHB241Intro
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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...
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2023-12-14
Amendment HA 1 to HB 241 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DESB193Intro
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This substitute adds emphasis to the prohibition that interim alimony may not be awarded to a party that is convicted of a violent felony. This Act prohibits an individual from receiving alimony who is convicted of committing a violent felony, where ...
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2023-06-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee
DEHB240Intro
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This Act requires that parents and other persons under investigation for child abuse and neglect be given written and oral notice of the allegations made against them; the right to consult counsel prior to speaking with a DSCYF investigator; the righ...
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2023-06-16
To House Judiciary Committee
DESB181Intro
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This Act provides that a contractor is jointly or severally liable for a violation of the Delaware Contractor Registration Act by a subcontractor.
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2023-06-15
To Senate Labor Committee
DEHB216Intro
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This Act requires police officers to enter private property to enforce custody orders when a court order requires them to do so.
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2023-06-14
Not Worked in Committee
DEHB217Intro
25%
This Act requires that parents and other persons under investigation for child abuse and neglect be given written and oral notice of the allegations made against them; the right to consult counsel prior to speaking with a DSCYF investigator; the righ...
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2023-06-14
Tabled in Committee
DEHB170Intro
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This Act does all of the following regarding suspected human trafficking of children:
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2023-06-14
To House Appropriations Committee
DEHB220Intro
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This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to conserve, protect and maintain Delaware's natural resources, including its water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate. This Amendment would create an inherent and i...
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2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits
DEHB199Intro
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This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary nurse staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses in long-term care facilities in the State and assigns ove...
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2023-06-09
Stricken in House
DEHB175Intro
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This Act adds provisions to Title 21 defining accessible parking spaces, incorporating federal standards for accessible parking spaces found in the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable regulations. The Act also provides additional requireme...
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2023-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits
DEHB8Intro
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This Act directs state agencies to collaborate on the development and implementation of clean construction preferences that will allow for the incorporation and consideration of sustainability and carbon impact data in the award of public works contr...
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2023-06-01
Amendment HA 1 to HB 8 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
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