| DE | HB354 | Pass | This Act makes the Delaware equal accommodation law internally consistent, correctly organized, and aligned with the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB243 | Pass | Since 1973, § 9605(b) of Title 9 of the Delaware Code (§ 9605) has prohibited the recordation of instruments that restrict the sale, gift, transfer, assignment, conveyance, ownership, lease, rental, use, or occupancy of real property to or by any p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB104 | Pass | The state is currently funding service providers at 75% of the market rate established in a 2014 study that was done by DHSS. This bill would mandate an increase in the rates paid to service providers according to the recommendations of the market st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-09-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB7 | Pass | This Act provides county and municipal police and firefighters with the same pension burial benefit that is provided to state employees effective July 1, 2016. This Act is named for Wilmington Firefighters Captain Christopher M. Leach, Lieutenant Jer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB292 | Pass | This Act implements the recommendations of the March 2105 Autism Educational Task Force report regarding § 1332 of Title 14, the Program for Children with Autism and its Special Staff. Enacted nearly three decades ago, this law established a network...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB11 | Pass | This Act relates to police and fire pension funds created under Title 18 of the Delaware Code. The General Assembly created a special fund in the hopes of ensuring adequate pensions for affected police officers and firefighters, and their surviving s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB360 | Pass | As poll from 2017 revealed that 31% of people in the United States have been sexually harassed in the workplace. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a comprehensive study of workplace harassment in the United States whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB172 | Pass | This bill will increase the public transparency of education funding information by directing the Department of Education to:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB197 | Pass | This Act provides mandatory expungement eligibility to individuals who were convicted of the possession, use or consumption of marijuana prior to Delawares decriminalization of these offenses. To be eligible for the mandatory expungement, the marijua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB456 | Pass | This Act amends Titles 14, 16, 17, 26, and 29 of the Delaware Code to prohibit the use of lead paints on outdoor structures such as bridges, water towers, playground equipment, highways, parking lots, and utility towers and poles, in order to protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB374 | Pass | This bill adds glaucoma, chronic debilitating migraines, pediatric autism spectrum disorder, pediatric sensory processing disorder to the list of debilitating medical conditions which may qualify a person, upon certification by a physician, to be eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB380 | Pass | This bill allows first-time home buyers to pay their portion of the realty transfer tax at the rate that was in effect prior to the increase that took effect on August 1, 2017. The credit is calculated as 0.5% of the first $400,000 in home value, wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB312 | Pass | This Act includes emergency medical technicians within the definition of employee under the County/Municipal Police/Firefighter Pension Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB242 | Pass | This Act creates Pay for Success contracts. A Pay for Success contract is an agreement between a State agency and either a program intermediary or an investor under which an investor will provide upfront capital to fund a service, program, or economi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB246 | Pass | This act provides greater flexibility for County and Municipal governments to enter into public-private partnerships for public lands. These agreements provide opportunities for the preservation of public land and limit the amount of government money...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR7 | Pass | This Senate Joint Resolution authorizes and encourages the Delaware Department of Transportation to conduct a Work a Day Earn a Pay Pilot Public Works Jobs Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB224 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act increases the aggregate amount of Neighborhood Assistance Tax Credits that can be approved in any 1 fiscal year from $500,000 to $1 million.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB408 | Pass | This Act amends the Workers Compensation Act to include a provision permitting Industrial Accident Board hearing notices and decisions to be sent by secure email with an electronic receipt in lieu of certified mail. This will save money for the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB228 | Pass | This Act restores the Delaware Prescription Drug Payment Assistance Program (Program), which was eliminated in the Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Appropriations Act. This Act replaces Senate Bill 148 and makes the following additional changes:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB407 | Pass | This Act provides that all current employees, prospective employees, contractors and subcontractors of the Department of Labor with access to federal tax information shall be subject to appropriate background checks to ensure that the Department of L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB409 | Pass | This Act creates a state mass layoff and plant closing notice requirement law that requires certain larger employers to provide their employees with adequate notice when they plan to go out of business, close a plant, or lay off a large number of emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB229 | Pass | This Act acknowledges that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has been collecting natural resource data for years without the consent of the respective property owners. From the date of this Act forward, the Department must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB163 | Enroll | Currently there are 17 "check-boxes" on the Delaware personal income tax return where taxpayers may designate a portion of their refund or send additional money with their payment due to be credited as a charitable donation to various organ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NO |
| DE | SB170 | Pass | This bill increases the minimum wage to be paid in this State beginning in 2018 and ending in 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB475 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2019 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB165 | Pass | This Act permits private sector labor organizations and employers to enter into union security agreements to the full extent allowed under federal law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB3 | Pass | This legislation requires that all full-time employees of the State, including employees of school districts, continuously in the employ of the state for at least one year, shall be eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave upon the birth or adoption of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB171 | Enroll | Individuals who are released from prison face many hurdles as they re-enter the community, including difficulty obtaining identification documents. Lacking identification imposes additional hurdles as these individuals attempt to find housing and emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB254 | Intro | This bill raises the civil penalty for a violation of section 3503 of the Workplace Fraud Act ("Act") from a range of $1,000 to $5,000 to $5,000 to $20,000. The bill also raises the civil penalty for wrongful discharge or discrimination und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Amendment SA 3 to SB 254 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SR26 | Engross | This Resolution urges the Governor and the Secretary of the Department of Labor to study and report their findings on the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of Labor as to its capacity to monitor and enforce the Workplace Fraud Act, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SR27 | Engross | This Resolution honors Secretary of the Senate Bernard J. Brady by declaring June 30 to be Bernard J. Brady Day in the Delaware State Senate. It further thanks him for his 39 years of unequalled service to the Delaware State Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SR28 | Engross | This resolution recognizes June 30, 2018 as "Staff Appreciation Day" in the Delaware State Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SCR77 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution requests the appointment of a committee to explore the feasibility of Delaware pursuing a grant from the NFL's social justice initiative fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR71 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution supports the Ad Hoc Committee for Child Support Formula Review's proposed revision to Family Court Rule of Civil Procedure 506.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR73 | Enroll | This Resolution creates a Shift Worker Protection Study Group to identify best practices to reduce the unpredictability of shift worker schedules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 7 NO 2 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SCR69 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution creates a Delaware Youth Drug Prevention Curriculum Task Force to examine available drug prevention programs and to recommend a course of action to educate our youth about the dangers of drug, alcohol, and tobacco us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR70 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution creates a Medicaid Buy-In Study Group to study the adoption of an expanded Medicaid Buy-In program that would allow Delawareans with incomes above 138% of the Federal Poverty Level to purchase insurance coverage thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SR24 | Engross | This resolution recognizes the University of Delaware on its 275- year history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB90 | Engross | This bill establishes in-person early voting for the State of Delaware. Registered voters will be allowed to vote in-person for at least 10 days prior to an election, up to and including the Saturday and Sunday immediately prior to the election at lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | SB253 | Intro | This Act creates and funds, in Fiscal Year 2019, a Community Assault Weapon Recovery Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
To Senate Labor Committee |
| DE | HB95 | Intro | This Act prohibits a person from purchasing, selling, offering for sale, possessing with intent to sell, or importing with intent to sell ivory or rhinoceros horn, except as specified. A violation of this Act or any rule, regulation, or order adopted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | SB163 | Intro | This Act prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, receipt, possession, or transport of assault weapons in Delaware, subject to certain exceptions. One exception relevant to individuals is that the Act does not prohibit the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Amendment SA 3 to SB 163 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SCR74 | Engross | This resolution proclaims June 19, 2018 as Juneteenth Independence Day in Delaware and encourages the people of Delaware to reflect upon the significant roles and many contributions of African Americans and to celebrate this day with appropriate acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB133 | Intro | This Act acknowledges that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has been collecting natural resource data for years without the consent of the respective property owners. This Act further prohibits the dissemination of natura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB250 | Intro | This Act encourages and provides funding for the installation of detection equipment for deadly weapons, dangerous instruments, and other dangerous things at public, charter, and private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB319 | Pass | This legislation creates a benchmark for determining when a treatment or service is no longer experimental or investigational. When Medicare determines that a treatment is safe for its population, commercial insurers in Delaware may no longer deny co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB447 | Intro | This bill moves all police officers and firefighters employed by the State and its political subdivisions under the jurisdiction of the Police Officers and Firefighters Employment Relations Act. This bill allows all State merit employees to have full...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB460 | Intro | This Act is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment reflecting the recommendations of the Advisory Panel to the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) on Potential Fiscal Controls and Budget Smoothing Mechanisms established as p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB19 | Intro | Some students from disadvantaged backgrounds arrive at school lacking the same vocabulary and word recognition skills of their peers, putting them at a disadvantage when developing literacy skills in primary grades. In analyzing this disparity, studi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
Amendment SA 1 to SB 19 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB299 | Intro | This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to provide equal rights on the basis of sex. There is no Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. While Congress passed the Amendment in 1972, it was not ratified by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-12
Stricken in House |
