| DE | HB92 | Intro | This Act reduces the term of a member elected to a school board from 5 years to 4 years for members elected after December 31, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB76 | Intro | This Act authorizes the distribution of testing strips to determine the presence of fentanyl or fentanyl-related substances. Fentanyl testing strips could be distributed to the community along with opioid overdose reversal medication as a harm reduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB72 | Intro | This Act clarifies that discrimination against any person because of religion is illegal under Chapter 45 of Title 6, the Delaware Equal Accommodations Act. Religion and religious beliefs were always intended to be protected under the Delaware Equal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | SB75 | Intro | This Act revises the Fair Housing Act to repeal the exception to discrimination based on source of income that allows a landlord to discriminate against tenants who participate in government-sponsored rental assistance programs. This exemption contri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| DE | SB32 | Engross | A 2019 study found the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 11:00 am]
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB21 | Engross | This Act amends the Delaware Energy Act to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in the State by creating more accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Energy Committee |
| DE | HB107 | Intro | In the 1943 decision West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 63 S. Ct. 1178, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a public school requirement that students salute the flag or face punishment violated the First Amendment of the Constitution be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SB63 | Intro | This Act limits the use of certain Class B firefighting foams (Class B foams) in Delaware. Class B foams are used to put out fires caused by flammable liquids like gasoline, oil, and jet fuel, and can be divided into 2 categories: those with PFAS che...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee |
| DE | SB33 | Pass | This Act modifies the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act to do the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB65 | Pass | This bill provides COVID-19 related relief to both claimants receiving unemployment benefits and employers who are assessed unemployment taxes, and extends the end date of the Secretary of Labors COVID-19 related rulemaking authority. Section 1 waive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB31 | Enroll | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment to add race, color, and national origin to ยง 21 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution to explicitly declare that protection against discrimination based on race, color, and national origin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB96 | Intro | This Act prohibits multiple service charges for residential trash collection service. However, under this Act, specific charges are allowed for the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 11:00 am]
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB93 | Intro | 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 requests for grants-in-aid and to develop the grants-in-aid appropriations bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HR5 | Intro | This House Resolution condemns the violence at and assault on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021; commits the House of Representatives to peaceful, thoughtful, and respectful discourse in the conduct of public business; and expresses gratit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB91 | Intro | This Act amends Delawares Consumer Fraud Act (Subchapter II, Chapter 25, Title 6 of the Code), to give Delaware consumers and businesses the protection against unfair acts or practices in commerce that the General Assembly intended to give them when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB100 | Intro | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware elementary schools. The unit is at a ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades K-5 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB94 | Intro | The minimum wage for employees who receive tips or gratuities has not changed since 1983, when the overall state minimum wage was $3.35 per hour. Tipped wage workers at that time were paid a percentage 66.67% of the minimum wage, which was $2.23 pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB88 | Intro | This bill removes the training minimum wage and youth minimum wage, which takes effect 90 days after enactment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB86 | Intro | This Act provides increased funding for kindergarten through third grade students identified as eligible for basic special education services. Currently, basic special education is provided for students in fourth through twelfth grade who are identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| DE | SCR8 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution declares that gun violence is a public health crisis, that ending the gun violence devastating Delaware is a policy priority, and supporting policy and legislative solutions that will make schools safe, confront arme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO |
| DE | HB16 | Intro | Section 1 of this Act modifies Delawares Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to allow recipients to choose the most beneficial credit to be applied against their Delaware Personal Income Taxes. Under this Act, recipients can choose between a non-refundab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 11 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB48 | Intro | This Act establishes a Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program for new primary care providers to be administered by the Delaware Health Care Commission. Under the loan repayment program, the Health Care Commission may award education loan repayme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR3 | Engross | This resolution honors Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris for her service and dedication to the United States of America and the inspiration she provides to women and people of color, and offers appreciation and support for her historic Vice Presi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR2 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and urges all citizens of the First State to participate fittingly in the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB75 | Intro | This Act is the final leg of a constitutional amendment that would eliminate from the Delaware Constitution the limitations as to when an individual may vote by absentee ballot. This amendment to the Delaware Constitution provides that the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 Favorable, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB74 | Intro | This Act reaffirms the Constitutional requirement that the General Assembly appropriate money belonging to the General Fund by making clear that funds received by the State or a State agency from settlements or other final orders or judgments, other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-19
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB69 | Intro | This bill establishes a 2-year residential drinking water purification system pilot program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services with funding through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-14
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB64 | Intro | This Act creates the following new tax brackets: at $125,000, with a rate of 7.10%, at $250,000, with a rate of 7.85%, and at $500,000, with a rate of 8.6%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB50 | Intro | 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] | 2020-12-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB39 | Intro | This bill requires that inadvertent out-of-network services be included in individual and group health insurance policies as well as group and blank health insurance policies. This bill defines inadvertent out-of-network services are those services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-18
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB15 | Intro | This Act is the final leg of a constitutional amendment that would eliminate from the Delaware Constitution the limitations as to when an individual may vote by absentee ballot. This amendment to the Delaware Constitution provides that the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB25 | Intro | 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] | 2020-12-04
To House Administration Committee |
