| DE | SB85 | Pass | This bill permits the administrative transfer of cases from an aldermans court or mayors court to the Justice of the Peace Court when such a transfer is in the interests of justice. This transferability may be used in cases where an alderman must rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB280 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB290 | Pass | This Act amends the Fiscal Year 2020 Bond and Capital Improvements Act to (1) reauthorize Appoquinimink School District project local shares; (2) redistribute Community Reinvestment Funds from the African American Heritage Institute to the Peoples Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB269 | Engross | Under the current language of Section 2.301, it is unclear what constitutes a "term" when computing term limits and determining a potential candidate's eligibility when they have previously filled a vacancy on the Council. By adding the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB80 | 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] | 2020-01-30
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB179 | Engross | This bill increases the fines for littering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Environmental & Natural Resources) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB126 | Engross | This Act expands eligibility for Line-of-Duty disability benefits to paid firefighters who work for municipal fire departments and to fire service instructors and fire marshals who work for the State and for nonphysical disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB265 | Intro | This Act fully exempts county property taxes and local school taxes for a disabled veteran with a 100% VA rated service-connected, permanent and total disability or for a disabled veteran who is receiving 100% disability compensation due to individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB214 | Enroll | This Act supports veterinarians in their effort to protect people from rabies and to ensure the welfare of animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB281 | Engross | This bill increases the minimum amount of property damage that triggers the mandatory reporting of a vehicular collision to police from $500 to $2,000. This bill also increases the minimum amount of property damage requiring police agencies to invest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| DE | SB204 | Intro | This Act requires public schools to begin their school year after Labor Day. There have been many economic impact reports done that show a positive impact from starting public schools after Labor Day. A report by the Virginia Hospitality and Travel A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB205 | Intro | This Act requires that a former foster parent of a child be considered a preferential placement option for a child when the child is placed for adoption less than 13 months after the end of the foster placement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SB203 | Intro | This Act makes children with disabilities who attend homeschools eligible to receive speech language pathology and audiology services in the same manner as students who attend private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB271 | Intro | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag, is "a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars" 36. U.S.C. 902. In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB56 | Pass | This act names the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 301 between Route 1 and the Delaware Maryland State line as First Responders Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB15 | Pass | This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB119 | Pass | The bill expands the qualified agencies authorized to receive grants approved by the Water Infrastructure Advisory Council to include non-profit corporations, such as the Diamond State Sustainability Corporation (DSSC), approved by Public Service Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB161 | Pass | This Act allows law-enforcement officers to share an individual's identifying information with the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health ("DSAMH") if the officer suspects the individual is suffering from an overdose or a mental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB10 | Pass | This Act is identical to Senate Bill No. 127 from the 149th General Assembly, which was passed by the Senate and reported out of the House Administration Committee. This Act corrects an inadvertent error in Delaware law that has permitted people youn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB30 | Pass | Unmanned aircraft systems are capable of introducing contraband into detention facilities without undergoing correctional officer inspections. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to introduce contraband into dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB58 | Pass | This act will increase the numbers of Delaware nursing students eligible for the nursing incentive program by allowing Delawareans pursuing nursing careers at non-profit hospitals located in Delaware to be eligible for the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB195 | Pass | The purpose of the Bill is to update the existing beekeeping code to better reflect current practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB87 | Pass | This act designates the Bellanca Cruisair as the official historical aircraft of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB5 | Pass | This Act addresses the serious problem of individuals dumping large quantities of trash on public and private property, by:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB163 | Pass | Individuals who volunteer their services through stand-alone EMS companies have been a valuable part of public safety to the citizens of the State of Delaware. To try to bolster the ranks of these volunteers, this bill exempts anyone applying for mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB207 | Pass | This Act expands the applicability of the Delaware Brownfields Development Program, Subchapter II, Chapter 91 of Title 7, by providing protection from liability for releases of regulated substances from underground storage tanks and aboveground stora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB162 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of Millville to give the Town Council the authority to impose and collect a lodging tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB247 | Pass | This bill removes the 3 year sunset provision that was part of House Bill No. 53, as amended, enacted on May 10, 2018 of the 149th General Assembly. This will allow the on-going use of certain ground-based and hand-held sparklers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB175 | Pass | Currently, the SEED program allows students a maximum of 6 semesters to complete an Associate Degree. This Bill allows SEED eligible students who complete their Associate Degree in fewer than 6 semesters to apply the remaining semesters of the grant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB72 | Pass | This bill serves to "decouple" the required examination in Principles and Practice of Engineering from the experience requirements. Applicants who have met their educational requirements may take the examination prior to completion of their...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB74 | Pass | This bill makes modification to the New Economy Jobs Credit allowing qualified employers to pro-rate their job creation activity in the first certified year, ensuring the indexation of the salary threshold is conducted prior to the calendar year to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB93 | Pass | This Act permits a horse racetrack to make and sell beer on the horse racetrack premises for consumption on or off the licensed premises. This Act also makes technical corrections to existing law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB102 | Pass | This Bill establishes the pilotage rates for the Pilots Association for the Bay and River Delaware for 2020, 2021 and 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB228 | Pass | This Act allows Sussex County, by duly enacted ordinance, to impose a local lodging tax of no more than 3 percent of rent on rooms in a hotel, motel or tourist home located in the unincorporated areas of the County. Such funds may only be used in Sus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB80 | Pass | This Act changes the composition of the Council on Recreational Fishing Funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB180 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2020 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB49 | Intro | This bill changes the earned income tax credit from nonrefundable to refundable. For tax year 2020 and thereafter, the rate of the credit is in the amount of 5.9 %.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB71 | Enroll | This Act protects consumers from paying high prices for prescription drugs by ensuring competition in the marketplace by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO |
| DE | SB129 | Intro | This Act exempts a number of nonprofit corporations from property taxation or assessment by a county or other political subdivision of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | HB127 | Pass | This legislation gives authority to the Executive Director of the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs to use the term Delaware Office of Veterans Services when carrying out the work of the Commission. This will enable the Executive Director and o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB170 | Intro | This Act increases the age requirement for compulsory school attendance in Delaware from 16 to 18 years of age. The age increase is phased in over a 2-year period; accordingly, there is a 1-year interim period where the compulsory school attendance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB16 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles (Division) to issue special registration plates to motorcycle clubs without having to enact a special law for each request. A motorcycle club must have 50 applications for its special registration pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB136 | Intro | The purpose of the Bill is to protect farmers and ranchers from nuisance lawsuits filed by individuals who inhabit areas where agricultural operations lawfully exist, and who exercise nuisance actions to attempt to stop operation and production. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB244 | Intro | This bill will allow marinas in Sussex County to sell gasoline that does not contain ethanol. Sussex County comfortably meets the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone, and removing ethanol from marine fuel will have no signifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB69 | Pass | This Act updates the membership of the Telecommunications Relay Service Advisory Committee to include the groups currently engaged in ensuring telecommunications relay services are provided to Delawareans who need relay services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB162 | 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] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB233 | Intro | This Act expands the definition of prescription drug order to include electronic prescribing and makes Gabapentin a Schedule V controlled substance. Gabapentin is a prescription medication which is used to treat partial seizures and neuropathic pain....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB168 | Intro | This Act increases the burial benefit upon the death of an individual receiving a pension under the State Employees Pension plan from $7,000 to $8,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HCR50 | Engross | This joint resolution is designed to establish a task force to study and make findings concerning the recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | SB164 | Intro | This Act will allow facilities in Sussex County to sell gasoline that does not contain ethanol provided such fuel is for vessels. Sussex County comfortably meets the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone, and removing ethanol f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To Senate Environmental & Natural Resources Committee |
