| DE | HB209 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 8 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB25 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-23
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | SB246 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-23
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | SB245 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB308 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB244 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-18
To House Housing Committee |
| DE | HB13 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB270 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB293 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB253 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB59 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB290 | Intro
25% | This Act removes a barrier to higher education by allowing a student who has been convicted of a violent felony to qualify for or maintain eligibility for a SEED scholarship if other eligibility criteria are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB17 | Intro
25% | This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB274 | Intro
25% | Early, sustained exposure to peanut and egg proteins in the infant diet significantly reduces the risk that an infant will develop a peanut or egg allergy, saving lives and future health care costs. Following multiple clinical studies, the current gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB5 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB294 | Intro
25% | This bill adds optometrists to those health care providers eligible for the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB319 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-17
Amendment HA 2 to HB 319 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB147 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-16
was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 147 |
| DE | HB127 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB315 | Enroll
75% | This Act makes technical corrections to remove racist language and provisions from the Delaware Code. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual and the current respo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB231 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-16
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB255 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-16
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | HB364 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-16
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB132 | Intro
25% | Over the past decade, an increasing number of states have passed legislation establishing a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. At least 18 states have passed such legislation. Of these 18 states, 12 states have a Student Loan Ombudsperson and 13 h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB243 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-11
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB263 | Intro
25% | 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
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee |
| DE | HB363 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-04-11
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Housing Committee |
| DE | HB275 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB285 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act by removing the requirement that a patient have a debilitating medical condition to qualify for a registry identification card, instead allowing health-care providers to make the determination of whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| DE | HB55 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB318 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB22 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 6 Favorable |
| DE | SB13 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HB252 | Engross
50% | This Substitute bill differs from House Bill No. 252 by placing the Delaware Institute of Higher Education year-long teacher residency program under Section 1312 of Title 14 rather than Section 1305.This Substitute bill grants graduates of the Delawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 1 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB115 | Intro
25% | This Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB340 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB247 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | SB23 | Intro
25% | 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 Delaware's housing supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | HB263 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB267 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB279 | Engross
50% | This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB70 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB271 | Enroll
75% | Currently, section 712 of Title 7 of the Delaware Code prohibits the hunting of any game birds or game animals (except deer) on Sundays. This Bill eliminates the prohibition against hunting game birds on Sundays. The Department of Natural Resources a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB273 | Engross
50% | This Substitute bill adds 5 additional speech-language diagnosis to the 2 diagnoses listed in H.B. 273 and references that all 7 speech-language diagnoses are classified in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for billing purposes. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | HB286 | Engross
50% | Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee |
| DE | HB289 | Intro
25% | Section 1 of this Act increases the burial benefit for individuals eligible to receive a pension under the State Employees Pension Plan (Chapter 55 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code) from $7,000 to $8,000. The burial benefit has not been increased sin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB200 | Engross
50% | This bill provides important consumer protections for property insurance contracts by improving the reliability of mailed notifications of policy cancellation or renewal. Section 1 of this bill requires insurers to deliver any homeowners notices of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB189 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB281 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-12
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB282 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-12
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee |
