Delaware Senator Kyra Hoffner [D] | Bills

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DEHB70Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee
DEHB204Engross
50%
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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
DEHB87Enroll
75%
This Act establishes the Delaware Agricultural Production Assistance Program. The Program will provide a subsidy of up to 30% of the premium for eligible producers multi-peril crop insurance premium, or whole farm revenue protection premium up to a m...
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2024-06-18
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DEHB86Engross
50%
This Act establishes a right to counsel for indigent parents in DSCYF custody proceedings. Parent representation will primarily be provided by a legal services entity contracted with the Family Court, but may also be provided by the Office of Defense...
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2024-06-18
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB215Engross
50%
This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits
DEHB19Enroll
75%
This Act creates a background special license plate for the United Way of Delaware Pride Council.
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2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB16Engross
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This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
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2024-06-18
To Senate Finance Committee
DEHB313Enroll
75%
This Act ensures that all female inmates in DDOC custody, at level IV or V, receive annual or biennial screening mammograms as recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
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2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB298Engross
50%
This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees (JLOSC) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (Commission), whose purpose is to improve the response to and redu...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
DEHB326Enroll
75%
This is a substitute for House Bill No. 326.
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2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB235Enroll
75%
This Act brings the State in compliance with the federal regulation published by FMCSA on October 7, 2021, to establish a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse as mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). This act ...
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2024-06-18
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DESB238Enroll
75%
This Act adds "victim of kidnapping" to the definition section of the Address Confidentiality Act, allowing for kidnapping victims to become eligible for the protections offered by the Address Confidentiality Program. This amendment is reco...
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2024-06-18
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DEHB349Enroll
75%
This bill codifies that the Superior Court Veterans Treatment Court is a qualified rehabilitation program under § 4177D of Title 21 of the Delaware Code for persons seeking to have their driver's licenses reinstated after a DUI. This Act makes t...
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2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB340Engross
50%
This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
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2024-06-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee
DESB252Enroll
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Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 252 is identical to Senate Bill No. 252 except that SS 1 for SB 252 corrects a spelling error in the synopsis to avoid confusion.
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2024-06-18
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES
DEHB353Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
DESB254Engross
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This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 On Its Merits
DESB247Engross
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This Act creates a clearer and workable system for ensuring that manufactured home communities with health and safety violations and conditions that threaten the health and safety of people in the community cannot continue to raise rents on residents...
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2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING
DESB13Engross
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Healthcare facility assessments are currently the second largest source of funding for states shares of Medicaid costs, behind general funds. Today, 49 states have at least one facility assessment in place, including Delaware, while 34 states and Was...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 2 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits
DEHB366Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
DEHB368Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
DEHB367Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits
DEHB364Engross
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This Act requires that individual, blanket, and group health insurance carriers cover drug treatment for the associated conditions of metastatic cancer in the same way treatment for metastatic cancer is covered. Specifically, it requires insurance co...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DESB270Engross
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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.
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2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
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
DESB274Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DESB278Engross
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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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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 7 On Its Merits
DEHB280Engross
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This Act makes several changes to the civil asset forfeiture proceedings of this state.
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2024-06-18
To Senate Finance Committee
DESB300Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 3 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits
DESB301Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits
DEHB393Engross
50%
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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
DEHB405Engross
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This Act removes the requirement that a juvenile can only be referred to the the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program a second or subsequent time if the juveniles prior referral was for a different offense than the second referral, allowing a juv...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits
DESB302Engross
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This Act allows a licensed brewery-pub located within the premises of a public golf courses to apply to the Commissioner for a license to sell alcoholic beverages to patrons of the golf course if the brewery-pub and public golf course share common ow...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
DEHB402Engross
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This Act requires new schools and state buildings over 50,000 square feet to meet certain requirements to ensure that the building's roof is able to support solar energy infrastructure.
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Environment, Energy & Transportation) in Senate with 7 On Its Merits
DESB306Engross
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This Act makes technical changes and updates to the Delaware workplace safety program. Under current law, qualifying employers who pay $3,161 or more in annual workers' compensation premiums may be eligible for lower insurance premiums under the ...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits
DESB286Engross
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This Act codifies the Delaware Hispanic Commission (Commission). The Commission was created by former Governor Jack Markell in Executive Order Number 28 to combine and streamline the duties of the former Governors Council on Hispanic Affairs and the ...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
DEHB419Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee
DEHB439Intro
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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.
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DEHB423Engross
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This Act permits a farm winery to apply for a license for use of a portion of the farm winery premises as a restaurant.
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2024-06-18
To Senate Executive Committee
DEHB437Intro
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This bill modifies the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs employee requirements to make the Executive Director an exempt position, and to allow the hiring of non-veteran employees when needed. This will positively impact veteran families by redu...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
DEHB440Intro
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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.
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DEHB426Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
To Senate Judiciary 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
DEHB411Intro
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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.
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits
DESB319Engross
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This Act changes the requirements for continuing education for doctors related to Alzheimers disease or other dementias to require that doctors must only complete 2 hours of this continuing education once. Doctors who do not have direct patient inter...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
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
DEHB392Engross
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The United States Department of Agriculture runs a voluntary program that provides risk management coverage to dairy producers that pays out based on the difference between the national price of milk and the average cost of feed. This Act enables the...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
DESB314Engross
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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) ...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits
DESB318Intro
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
DEHB404Engross
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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...
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2024-06-18
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits
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