| DE | SB304 | Pass | This Act makes changes to nonacademic training requirements for school district and charter school personnel to help ensure that mandatory trainings are relevant to student needs and based on best practices. While nonacademic mandatory trainings are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB236 | Pass | This bill: (a) extends the expiration date for any new issuance or renewal of an ADA placard from 3 years to 8 years for a specific person with a diagnosis of a permanent disability and changing the minimum age from 85 to 80 years or older, (b) exten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB442 | Pass | This Act creates the Affordable Housing Production Task Force (Task Force). The purpose and mission of the Task Force is to investigate and make findings and rcommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on how the State and local governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB312 | Enroll
75% | School board members are currently required to engage both in financial responsibility training and a training to understand educational and legal issues about due process and special education. This Act will require that a school board president inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB309 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of child care facility to reflect the move of the Office of Child Care Licensing from the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB340 | Enroll
75% | 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 | SB252 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB25 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB22 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB244 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB13 | Enroll
75% | 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 | SB245 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB378 | Enroll
75% | 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 | SB295 | Enroll
75% | This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB300 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 15 NO 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SB301 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 16 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB282 | Enroll
75% | This Act repeals the Senior Trust Fund Fee, the Interstate Compact Fee, and the Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Treatment, Education and Prevention Fund Fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of these fees was recommended by the Crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB283 | Enroll
75% | This Act repeals the DELJIS Fund fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of this fee was recommended by the Criminal Legal System Imposed Debt Study Group created by House Bill 244, as amended by House Amendment No 2, of the 151st General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB349 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB274 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB169 | Enroll
75% | 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 | SB262 | Enroll
75% | This Act permits trucks having 5 or more axles that are hauling farm produce grown in this State and traveling from the farm on which the farm produce is grown to a location at which the farm produce is to be processed or stored, or from a location a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB314 | Enroll
75% | 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) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB326 | Pass | This Act appropriates $168,362,517 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB325 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB247 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB329 | Enroll
75% | This Act defines United States military pension for the exclusion for taxable income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB327 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid recipients for Fiscal Year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB411 | Enroll
75% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB432 | Enroll
75% | This Act updates provisions of the code covering the Delaware Institute of Medical Education Research (DIMER), which creates partnerships with out-of-state medical schools as an alternative to creating a state sponsored medical school. Specifically, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB5 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB275 | Enroll
75% | 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 | HB299 | Enroll
75% | This Act is the Delaware Libraries for All Act. It explicitly adds public libraries to the definition of place of public accommodation for purposes of Delawares Equal Accommodations Law. It also directs the Delaware Library Consortium to develop and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB308 | Enroll
75% | 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 | HB347 | Enroll
75% | This Act entitles non-exempt Delaware Department of Transportation employees who work over 37.5 hours to be paid at time and a half.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB332 | Enroll
75% | This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB353 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB198 | Enroll
75% | This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB292 | Enroll
75% | This Act updates the statute on disclosure of pupil records to ensure compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and improve information sharing between educational institutions and programs operating i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB280 | Enroll
75% | 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 | SB254 | Enroll
75% | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB252 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-06-26
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 | SB203 | Enroll
75% | Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| DE | HB328 | Enroll
75% | Senate Bill No. 288 of the 151st General Assembly (Chapter 371 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware) created a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use pulsating headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB251 | Enroll
75% | The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medical Education (DIVME) was established in 1975 with a stated purpose of creating opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain veterinary training and strengthening factors that would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB287 | Enroll
75% | This Act clarifies the Auditor of Accounts duties and powers by amending § 2901 of Title 29 to define audit to include performance audits, and by amending §§ 2906 and 2909 of Title 29 to change "postaudit" to "audit." This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 5 ABSENT |
| DE | HB190 | Enroll
75% | This bill updates the current law relating to the Spay Neuter Fund and the administration of that fund to make it easier to administer the fund and animal population control programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB297 | Enroll
75% | This Act acknowledges the importance of diversity and inclusivity in education by requiring the Department of Education to update content standards and regulations using a non-exhaustive list of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
