| DE | HB234 | Engross
50% | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to take the necessary steps to expand Medicaid coverage to pregnant women from the current coverage of 60-days from the end of pregnancy under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB299 | Engross
50% | This Act prohibits the seller of consumer goods or services from refusing to accept cash payment, except in limited circumstances. Sales covered by this Act are those made at a retail store through an in-person transaction. The Act does not apply to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | HB303 | Intro
25% | This bill amends Chapter 33, Title 18 of the Delaware Code by adding a new § 3370E to require coverage of an annual behavioral health well check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 Favorable |
| DE | HB317 | Intro
25% | This bill is the Cover All Delaware Children Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
Amendment HA 1 to HB 317 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB334 | Engross
50% | This bill permits health-care providers who are licensed in a state other than Delaware to deliver health-care services by telehealth and telemedicine only if a health-care provider-patient relationship has been established in accordance with § 6003...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB345 | Intro
25% | This Act ensures pregnant women and women who have given birth within the past six weeks who are subject to the custody of the Department of Corrections at Level IV or V have access to midwifery and doula services by requiring the Department to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB372 | Intro
25% | The Delaware Marijuana Control Act regulates and taxes marijuana in the same manner as alcohol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
Defeated By House. Votes: 23 YES 15 NO 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB375 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes the Racial Equity Consortium (Consortium) for the purposes of studying and making recommendations to address the disparities and inequities faced by persons of color in this State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 4 Favorable |
| DE | SB267 | Engross
50% | The bill requires that third-party cost-sharing assistance utilized by patients is applied toward the enrollee's health insurance deductibles and any out-of-pocket limits. Additionally, the bill defines what constitutes a cost-sharing requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB90 | Engross
50% | The Delaware Fair Housing Act and Residential Landlord-Tenant Code both prohibit discrimination based on source of income, which is defined as including rental payments from any government program, but both laws also provide that a landlord's non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB252 | Intro
25% | This Act requires each county to reassess the value of real property in the county on a regular basis that occurs at least once every 5 years. The first 5-year period starts when the reassessments being conducted under the settlement agreements in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Community Affairs) in House with 1 Favorable, 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB343 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 12 Favorable |
| DE | HB340 | Intro
25% | Improving the quality of maternal health care and ensuring full access to it improves health outcomes and reduces preventable pregnancy-related deaths. The United States has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality among high-income countries a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB342 | Intro
25% | Delaware law already prohibits the use of restraints on women who are giving birth or in labor except in limited circumstances. This Act expands that protection to include women in the second or third trimester of pregnancy and those in the 13-week i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 10 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB395 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution that would require legislators to remain domiciled in the districts they represent for the entirety of their term of office. Subsection (b) of this Act does not apply to sitting l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR108 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes May 2022 as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB93 | Engross
50% | This bill creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to view applications for grants-in-aid and to develop and recommend to the Joint Finance Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB205 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes the Delaware Expanding Access for Retirement and Necessary Saving (EARNS) program to serve as a vehicle through which eligible employees may, on a voluntary basis, provide for additional retirement security through a State-facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | SB144 | Engross
50% | This Act modernizes the hate crime statute and consolidates related offenses together with the hate crime statute in the Criminal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB293 | Engross
50% | House Bill No. 293 requires that meetings of public bodies that are open to the public must provide an opportunity for public comment. Meetings of a public body of the General Assembly are excluded from the requirement to provide an opportunity for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB368 | Intro
25% | This Act deletes from the Delaware Code a derogatory and highly offensive term for Italian-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-American immigrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 6 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB150 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the Office of Corrections Ombudsperson (Ombudsperson or Office) within the Department of Justice. The purpose of the Ombudsperson is to do all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
Amendment SA 1 to SB 150 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB394 | Intro
25% | This Act provides that the Department of Correction must provide a copy of all policies relating to the accrual and forfeiture of good time to inmates, as well as a quarterly written accounting of good time credit earned and/or forfeited. The require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 7 Favorable |
| DE | HB344 | Intro
25% | This Substitute Bill directs the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative (DPQC) to develop guidelines for cultural competency training programs for use by hospitals and freestanding birthing centers in employee training and education programs. Cultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB371 | Enroll
75% | This Act removes all penalties for possession of 1 ounce or less of marijuana, except for those who are under 21 years of age. Possession of more than 1 ounce of marijuana and public consumption remain unclassified misdemeanors. The Act also removes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-12
Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 7 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB396 | Intro
25% | It has been the case for several decades that when a juvenile is arrested or charged with certain crimes, the child's school is notified with an "Attorney General's letter" regardless of whether the crime occurred on school property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-11
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | SB1 | Pass | This Act, the Healthy Delaware Families Act, creates a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program. Delaware employees can access up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave through the State's paid leave trust fund for a qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB288 | Intro
25% | This Act requires private and public employers in the State to give any employee who is a resident of Delaware and scheduled to work at least 7.5 hours on an election day 2 hours of paid leave in order for the employee to exercise the right to vote i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-10
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB414 | Intro
25% | This Act adds coercive conduct which restricts, controls, or interferes with an individuals finances or financial resources including their bank accounts, credit cards, employment, education, and personal identity to the definition of abuse under Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB409 | 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 with fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-10
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB177 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits the seller of consumer goods or services from refusing to accept cash payment, except in limited circumstances. Sales covered by this Act are those made at a retail store through an in-person transaction. The Act does not apply to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-05
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB238 | Engross
50% | This Act repeals the ability of a charter school to give preference in student admissions to students residing within a 5-mile radius of the school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-05
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB262 | Engross
50% | This Act seeks to provide consumers with critical information about how their personal information is being used by data brokers. This Act requires data brokers to register with the Consumer Protection Unit of the Department of Justice and answer que...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-05
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | SB202 | Intro
25% | This act prohibits the inclusion of confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements resolving certain civil claims, including claims related to workplace harassment and discrimination, retaliation for reporting workplace harassment and discrimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB244 | Engross
50% | Recognizing the negative impact of criminal justice imposed financial obligations on defendants has led to reforms across the country to reduce the financial burdens that disproportionally impact the poor. This type of debt and the collateral consequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB205 | Enroll
75% | The Bill expands the availability of free feminine hygiene products at all public and charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB400 | Intro
25% | The ability of insured dependents and other insured members to receive confidential sensitive health care services without the knowledge of the insured policyholder is greatly impeded through traditional billing processes utilized by health insurers....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-03
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB274 | Pass | This Act repeals the requirement that individuals seeking to change their name publish notice of the petition for change of name in a newspaper published in the county in which the proceeding is had at least once a week for 3 weeks before the petitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB354 | Intro
25% | This Act amends Delawares Whistleblower Protection Act to preclude an employer from reporting or threatening to report an employees citizenship or immigration status or a family members citizenship or immigration status to a federal, state, or local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
Amendment HA 1 to HB 354 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB220 | Intro
25% | This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to conserve, protect and maintain Delawares natural resources, including its water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate. This Amendment would create an inherent and inalie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB50 | Intro
25% | Recognizing that a criminal charge can have lasting collateral consequences for a juvenile on employment and education opportunities, this bill raises the age in which a juveniles information, such as their name and mug shot, may be released by the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-14
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB359 | Engross
50% | This Act adds victims of human trafficking to the Address Confidentiality Act. Under this program, certain crime victims are provided a substitute address by the Department of Justice so as to protect the participants actual address from public discl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB25 | Intro
25% | This bill provides for election day registration for presidential primary, primary, special, and general elections whereas currently the deadline is the fourth Saturday prior to the date of the election. Moreover, same day registration at polling pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB208 | Engross
50% | Senate Bill No. 208 clarifies that an employer is liable to an employee for liquidated damages if the employer does not make wages available on the next payday after an employee quits, resigns, is discharged, suspended, or laid off.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 4 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR81 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes April 11-17, 2022 as "Black Maternal Health Awareness Week" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB374 | Intro
25% | This bill extends protections to homeowners in manufactured home communities even if their homes do not qualify as manufactured homes under the current definition of manufactured home. Currently there exists a population of Delawareans living in camp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-12
Reported Out of Committee (Manufactured Housing) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB176 | Enroll
75% | This Act clarifies the responsibilities of manufactured home community owners and homeowners for maintenance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
Amendment HA 2 to HB 176 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SCR83 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes April 2 through 8, 2022 as Week of the Young Child in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB231 | Engross
50% | This bill prohibits the use of gender, gender identity, or sex as a rating factor in personal automobile insurance policies. The Gender Disparities in Auto Insurance Pricing Report issued by the Delaware Department of Insurance and Consumer Federatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB366 | Intro
25% | This Act requires a candidates political committees contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, to include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. The Act requires the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-06
Amendment HA 1 to HB 366 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
