| DE | HB209 | Pass | This Act prohibits rental companies, shared vehicle owners, and peer-to-peer car sharing programs from recovering damages and charging administrative fees relating to the loss of use of a rental vehicle or shared vehicle. This Act abrogates the commo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB25 | Pass | This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB22 | Pass | This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB244 | Pass | This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB245 | Pass | The Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education and the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program were created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure or already navigating the forecl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB246 | Pass | For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB247 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB293 | Pass | The Delaware Fair Housing Act, Chapter 46 of Title 6, and Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, Chapter 51 of Title 25, both prohibit discrimination based on source of income, which is defined as including rental payments from any government program. How...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB200 | Pass | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware high schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2024, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 9-12 for a full-time school counselor, schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB5 | Pass | The States Medicaid Plan still limits the reimbursement of Medicaid-covered, school-based behavioral health services to those provided under an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), despite federal pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB127 | Pass | This Act provides each county with the ability to impose, by duly enacted ordinance, a fire protection fee (fee). A county that enacts this fee must do all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB263 | Pass | This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB318 | Pass | This Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the interveni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB243 | Pass | This Act deletes the current Charter of the Village of Ardencroft (the "Village") and replaces it with a new charter that differs in several respects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB231 | Pass | This Act removes the sunset provision in Chapter 453, Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware relating to the program established under §9011A of Title 29 to assist individuals who are in or have experienced foster care in Delaware with driver education, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB255 | Pass | This Act makes several updates to the Boiler Safety Program. The Boiler Safety Program can issue certificates of compliance and the Secretary can grant variances. A 6th member is added to the Boiler Safety Council from associated labor unions. It add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB279 | Pass | This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB364 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB151 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 151. Like Senate Bill No. 151, this Act requires included facilities to disclose information related dementia care services in the form determined by the Department of Health and Social Services, and it es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB401 | Pass | This Act amends Section 2603 of Title 16 to require the Division of Public Health to provide the results of lead screenings or tests to school nurses and require contracts or computer upgrades to include lead results.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB191 | Enroll
Sine Die | This substitute bill provides more clarity on the process by which a tenant may file an action in the Justice of the Peace Court to withhold rent payments in escrow. Specifically, the bill provides what the tenant must file in order to bring such act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Laid On Table in House |
| DE | HB212 | Enroll
Sine Die | House Substitute No. 2 to House Bill 212 prohibits manufactured home community owners from increasing rent if the rent was increased by 5 percent or more the previous year or rental period, instead permitting an increase capped at 3 percent. This Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 10 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB340 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB13 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB86 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB297 | Enroll
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB319 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires the Department of Human Resources to develop an executive branch policy restricting nepotism in state employment and prohibiting supervision of a state employee by a relative. It further requires the legislative and judicial branche...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB363 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB378 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires health spas selling subscription services online to provide a prospective buyer of such a subscription the right to cancel the automatic renewal online. The option to cancel is also to be presented on the website in a clear and cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB232 | Enroll
Sine Die | In light of the Federal Drug Administrations recent approval of over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills, this bill expands the contraceptive coverage laws to include over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| 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 | SB169 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act creates the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Service Act. The Act provides compensation and reintegration services to individuals who have served sentences of incarceration, wrongful incarceration in a psychiatric institution, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB431 | Enroll
Sine Die | A major environmental concern is the spread of pathogens and invasive species across water bodies. The use of live bait in both non-tidal and tidal waters can inadvertently result in the transfer of invasive species and pathogens to new waters. Fresh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| 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 | HB383 | Enroll
Sine Die | This substitute for House Bill 383 does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| 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 | 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 | HR34 | Intro
Sine Die | This House Resolution states the intent to phase out the use of avoidable PFAS in consumer products sold in Delaware, consistent with precedents set in other states that have banned the use of avoidable PFAS in consumer products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB147 | Engross
Sine Die | This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 147. Like House Bill No. 147, this Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate. This is done by permitting an owner of an interest in real estate to execute and record a transfer on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| 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 | 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 | HB13 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act requires the Director of the Sustainable Energy Utility to administer a program to provide financial assistance to Delaware residents for the cost of purchase and installation of electric vehicle supply equipment. For a low-income applicant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HCR146 | Engross
Sine Die | This Concurrent Resolution supports the Redding Commission for Educational Equitys recommendations to move immediately to support Christina School Districts City of Wilmington students and to plan for the eventual withdrawal of the Christina School D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| 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 | HB270 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act creates a civil penalty for any sale or display of ammunition that allows the ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser or transferee without the assistance of the vendor or an employee of the vendor. Ammunition in an enclosed display case,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
