| DE | HB269 | Pass | 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] | 2020-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB214 | Pass | This Act supports veterinarians in their effort to protect people from rabies and to ensure the welfare of animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB227 | Pass | This Act brings the Division of Motor Vehicles into compliance with federal law by allowing a commercial learner permit to be issued for a period of up to 1 year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB242 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2021 Bond and Capital Improvements Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB337 | Intro | This Act mandates that the Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to establish Maximum Contaminant Levels for specific contaminants found in drinking water in this st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
Amendment HA 1 to HB 337 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB338 | Intro | This Act promotes the expansion of licensure opportunities in Delaware while maintaining standards of competence and professionalism required for the protection of the citizens of Delaware. The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Survey...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| DE | SB221 | Intro | Under current law, only a premises that qualifies as a restaurant or is operated by a not-for-profit group may allow customers to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | HCR83 | Intro | This Resolution proclaims June 25th, 2020 as Korean War Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-29
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| DE | HCR82 | Intro | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the class of 2020s challenge faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB317 | Intro | This Act classifies pesticides containing a neonicotinoid as a restricted use pesticide and prohibits the use of a pesticide containing a neonicotinoid on land owned or maintained by the State. Neonicotinoids have been linked to impaired memory, move...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| DE | HB321 | Intro | This Act eliminates the state's portion of the realty transfer tax for closings for first time home buyers with a purchase price of $250,000 or less. The bill applies to a home buyer whose gross income is less than $45,000 or in the case of natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB315 | Intro | This Act creates a tax credit applicable to personal income taxes in an amount equal to incurred motor vehicle document fees for certain lower income, working poor, individuals. This tax credit is designed to assist the working poor in obtaining a ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB299 | Intro | This act will be known as the Egregious Crimes Accountability Act. This Act revises Delaware's death penalty statute to ensure its compliance with the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United State Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
