| DE | HB329 | Pass | This Bill eliminates the prohibition against the mere possession of a body-gripping trap with a jaw spread in excess of 5 inches, while maintaining the prohibition against actually using one in Delaware. This modification is necessary because many li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB365 | Pass | Currently, the age for wait staff to serve alcohol to a patron is 19 years old. This Act lowers the age of persons permitted to serve alcohol from 19 to 18 years of age for all establishments licensed for the on-premises sale and consumption of alcoh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB204 | Pass | Section 1 through 4 of this Act establish interim standards and criteria in order to permit redevelopment projects to move forward while revised regulations are being drafted. The interim standards set forth in this Act would effectively "sunset...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB220 | Pass | This bill creates two new vehicle license plates promoting and supporting both saltwater and freshwater fishing in the State of Delaware. The proceeds associated with The Delaware Sport Fishing License Plate, has a mission of undertaking initiatives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB113 | Enroll | This bill changes the earned income tax credit from nonrefundable to refundable. This bill creates a table for the percentage of earned income credit for tax years 2018 and after. Currently, if spouses file a joint federal return but separate State r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 1 NO 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SB200 | Enroll | This Act prohibits drilling for oil or natural gas in Delawares coastal zone and territorial waters and precludes DNREC from issuing any permits in connection with the development of offshore drilling infrastructure, whether proposed for Delaware ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By House. Votes: 38 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB437 | Enroll | This bill allows the background plates (animal welfare, farmland preservation, Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Delaware Equine Council, and Keep Delaware Beautiful) issued by DMV to be displayed on trailers up to 26,000 pounds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB298 | Enroll | This bill creates a special license plate for honorably discharged veterans of the United States military.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB310 | Pass | The Certification of Adoption of Sustainability and Transparency Standards Act (the Act) establishes a voluntary disclosure regime to foster dialogue around sustainability and responsibility among participating Delaware business entities and their va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB419 | Engross | 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] | 2018-06-26
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB336 | Intro | This Act requires each public school district to equip the schools within their respective jurisdictions with an adequate number of panic buttons that may be used to immediately alert local law enforcement authorities of a security threat at a school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB459 | Intro | This Act requires insurers to check if an individual owes child support arrears before making a payment to the individual and permits the Division of Child Support Services to attach a lien to an insurance payment awarded pursuant to a settlement or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
Amendment HA 1 to HB 459 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB472 | Intro | This bill removes two out-of-date sections of the Division of Motor Vehicles' code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-20
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| DE | HB468 | Intro | This Act creates the crime of wrongful use of voter registration information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Administration Committee |
| 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 | SB154 | Pass | Section 1 eliminates the need to use an ordinance to appoint a Town Manager and specifies that all departments, including the Police Department, report directly to the Town Manager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB153 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Native Species Commission ("Commission"), which is one of the recommendations of the Statewide Ecological Extinction Task Force, created by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 20 of the 149th General Assembly. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB167 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of Fenwick Island to provide examples of documents that can be used to prove residency in the Town of Fenwick Island for purposes of voting in the annual municipal elections and change the limit on borrowing from $500,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB448 | Intro | This act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that protects parental rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB423 | Intro | This Act will permit engineers to obtain mechanics liens but only if improvements as contemplated by the engineering or architectural services provided are actually constructed or if the surveys or plans are actually approved by the governing authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance/Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB284 | Pass | This Bill would allow all on-premises licensees who sell a bottle of alcohol (other than beer) to place a cap on the bottle and allow patrons to take it home with them for consumption later. Delaware was one of the first states to recognize that it w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB170 | Pass | This legislation, the Angel Investor Job Creation and Innovation Act for Small Technology Companies, creates an incentive for qualified angel investors to invest capital in qualified Delaware small technology companies..
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB313 | Pass | This amendment to the Ocean View charter confirms the authority of the Town Council to elect to assess and value property pursuant to 22 Del.C. § 1101, et seq., as an alternate to the previously required procedure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB345 | Pass | This bill increases the 1-time fee from $35 to $50 for Delawares environmental license plates in order to increase revenue to improve the capacity of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays and The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary to fulfill thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB53 | Pass | This bill allows ground-based and hand-held sparklers and certain other nonexplosive, nonairborne novelty items regulated by the federal government to be sold and used in the State. The bill does not legalize firecrackers, bottle rockets, aerials, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR43 | Engross | Designating February 6, 2018 as "Ronald Reagan Day" in Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB205 | Intro | The Act protects the life of the unborn child at a time when the potential for the child to survive outside the womb increases, especially with the advancement of medical procedures. Also, there is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB238 | Intro | This Act enables licensed veterinarians to exempt an animal from the mandated rabies vaccination, if the veterinarian determines the vaccine would endanger the animals health and a titer test has been administered to assist in determining the necessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB390 | Intro | This bill requires the Department of Health and Social Services to create a vaccination risk assessment form to be used by veterinarians for dog, cat, and ferret vaccinations. An abbreviated form would be allowed for mass vaccination of pets events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB288 | Intro | Under this Act, two circumstances which currently subject alcoholic liquor license holders or individuals to fines will be permitted:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Amendment HA 2 to HB 288 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB283 | Intro | In the 149th General Assembly House Bill No. 64 amended Title 29, Section 5120 to insure that mothers who are full time state employees may have up to 6 weeks of unpaid leave following the newborn(s) discharge from the hospital even if their FMLA ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-02
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR80 | Engross | This concurrent resolution designates April 25, 2018, as Engineering and Technology Education Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB338 | Intro | This Act increases the eligibility for a child with a disability to be eligible for free appropriate public education from the end of the school year in which the child attains the age of 21 to the end of the school year in which the child attains th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB134 | Pass | This Act establishes an Educational Support Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work educational support professionals, such as paraprofessionals, food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB385 | Intro | This Act places a constitutional limitation on base general fund operating appropriations. However, appropriations deemed as emergencies involving the health, safety, or welfare of the citizens of the State that are approved by three-fifths of the me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SCR31 | Enroll | This concurrent resolution establishes the Veterans Higher Education Task Force to study and make findings and recommendations regarding veterans access to higher education in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR44 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HCR61 | Intro | Providing sufficient surplus state revenue exists, this House Concurrent Resolution requests the Joint Finance Committee to restore to the FY 2019 Grants-in-Aid Bill funding that was removed from the appropriation at the start of the current fiscal y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB297 | Intro | This Act decreases by 1% the rate of realty transfer tax to be received by the State, thereby returning to the rate that was applicable prior to August 1, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB293 | Intro | This Act replaces the prevailing wage survey method of setting the prevailing wage with a method based on payroll information currently being provided to the Department of Labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB197 | Pass | This bill makes changes to the Delaware Professional Engineers' licensing chapter to:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB120 | Pass | This Act requires health insurance policies to cover any medically appropriate drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of stage 4 metastatic cancer without requiring a patient to first prove that the patient failed to respond to a different drug o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB189 | Pass | The Advanced Wireless Infrastructure Investment Act creates a new Chapter 16 of Title 17 that will accelerate investment in mobile broadband infrastructure and ready the State for the next wave of economic development in the digital economy. In recog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB77 | Pass | As a result of the passage of the in Inland Bays Aquaculture Act, numerous ongoing concerns have been raised during subsequent public meetings and a public hearing. As a result of those meetings, the Secretary's Order No. 2016-W-0049 reduced the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB99 | Pass | This legislation eliminates front footage calculations as the sole method of collecting sewer assessments for county sewer users. It provides a broad list of possible methods of determining the amount of the sewer assessment for each property, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB56 | Pass | This bill implements a portion of the federal requirements in the bipartisan Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act to promote greater normalcy for youth in foster care. Specifically, it provides a limitation from liability provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB190 | Pass | This Act, which shall be known as the Coastal Zone Conversion Permit Act, makes changes to the Coastal Zone Act (CZA), which has not been significantly updated since its enactment almost a half century ago. The CZA, enacted in 1971, has enabled Delaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB75 | Pass | This Act updates Delaware's human trafficking crime to prohibit the same acts that are included in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB167 | Pass | Cooking wine contains alcohol but has been exempted from alcohol regulation by the federal government (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) and many states as long as it contains no more than 20% alcohol by volume and no less than 1.5% salt, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB230 | Pass | This bill expands the population of war veterans who are eligible to be awarded a high school diploma.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-21
Signed by Governor |
