| DE | SB276 | Engross
50% | This bill names the Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB25 | Engross
50% | This Act exempts contracts for the construction of affordable housing units from the 2% realty transfer tax imposed under 30 Del. C. § 5402(f).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB244 | Engross
50% | This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To House Housing Committee |
| DE | SB246 | Engross
50% | For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB248 | Engross
50% | This Act clarifies that for purposes of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, where an employee is leased by an employee leasing company or a professional employment organization, "employer" refers to the employer client of the em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR142 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution observes April 2024, as the "2024 Month of the Military Child" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR145 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 18, 2024, as "National Line Worker Appreciation Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SJR6 | Intro
25% | This resolution directs health care professional licensure boards to review their existing professional licensure application language to revise or remove all intrusive and stigmatizing language around mental health care and treatment and replace it ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB231 | Intro
25% | This Act removes the sunset provision in Chapter 453, Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware relating to the program established under §9011A of Title 29 to assist individuals who are in or have experienced foster care in Delaware with driver education, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | SR21 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes the efforts of Hawks, Inc. in helping with the clean-up of the 11th Street Bridge after Hurricane Ida in 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SCR144 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 2024 as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB132 | Intro
25% | Over the past decade, an increasing number of states have passed legislation establishing a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. At least 18 states have passed such legislation. Of these 18 states, 12 states have a Student Loan Ombudsperson and 13 h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB194 | Engross
50% | This Act allows pharmacists, under protocol approved by the Division of Public Health, to provide HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| DE | SB260 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. The current process for promulgating DIAA-related regulations grants the regulatory authority to the Department of Education ("D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB259 | Intro
25% | This Act is a result of the Delaware Interscholastic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. Based on the findings of the task force, this Act updates and modernizes the DIAA Board of Directors' composition. This Act also makes technical corre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB220 | Enroll
75% | Medicaid is generally the payer of last resort, meaning that Medicaid only pays claims for covered items and services if there are no other liable third-party payers for the same items and services. When Medicaid beneficiaries have one or more additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR137 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 29, 2024, as "National Vietnam War Veterans Day" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR139 | Engross
50% | This resolution designates April 6, 2024, as "National Tartan Day" and commemorates the outstanding achievements and contributions made by Scottish-Americans to the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR140 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution seeks to preserve the history of the famed World War II Black aviation units making up the Tuskegee Airmen. It also honors the Airmen as a group and names 13 Delawareans who have been identified thus far as having be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB230 | Intro
25% | This Act clarifies that elected officials may not be prevented from engaging in constituent relations and that candidates for public office or staff or volunteers may not be prevented from engaging in election-related or similar activities in residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB240 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance (Division) to produce a report by March 31, 2025, that documents home care services as measured using the most common billing codes for the home care industry. The Act identifies the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB13 | Intro
25% | Healthcare facility assessments are currently the second largest source of funding for states shares of Medicaid costs, behind general funds. Today, 49 states have at least one facility assessment in place, including Delaware, while 34 states and Was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB22 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Land Use) in Senate with 6 Favorable |
| DE | SB245 | Intro
25% | The Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education and the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program were created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure or already navigating the forecl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SJR4 | Engross
50% | This Joint Resolution directs the Division of Motor Vehicles to opt into the FMCSAs federal exemption that allows for first time CDL applicants seeking a school bus only endorsement on their drivers license. An applicants school bus only endorsement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SR20 | Engross
50% | This resolution extends thoughts and prayers from the people of Delaware to our sister state of Maryland, to the victims families, and to the first responders who are assisting with the search and recovery efforts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB212 | Engross
50% | Like Senate Bill No. 212, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 212 codifies the Bureau of Health Equity (BHE) in the Division of Public Health, which includes the Office of Minority Health and the Office of Womens Health. The purpose of the BH...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB232 | Engross
50% | In light of the Federal Drug Administrations recent approval of over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills, this bill expands the contraceptive coverage laws to include over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | SCR127 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes the week of March 17 through March 23, 2024, as National Agriculture Week in Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB2 | Enroll
75% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 2. Like Senate Bill No. 2 this Act does all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | SB203 | Engross
50% | Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB20 | Engross
50% | The primary purpose of this Act is to remove the requirement that a public school district employee who donates leave to another employee must donate 2 days of leave for the other employee to receive 1 day of leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB147 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a narrow exception to the computer crimes under §§ 932, 933, and 935 of Title 11 because these crimes contain elements broad enough to include actions employees may take to document or report an employers violation of state or fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SCR122 | Engross
50% | This resolution designates the week of March 11 through March 15, 2024, as Civic Learning Week in the State of Delaware to encourage schools and civic organizations to hold educational programs regarding civic duty and urge Delawareans to reflect upo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR118 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes March 7, 2024, as "Delaware Giving Day."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR106 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 5, 2024, as Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated or Alpha Phi Alpha Day at the Capitol in Delaware. It honors Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated as an organization that has provided a voice and a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR113 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership and achievements of African Americans and urges the celebration of Black History Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB188 | Engross
50% | This Act enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC). The Council of State Governments partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | SB187 | Engross
50% | This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Onc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR110 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution designates February 2024 as Career and Technical Education Month in the State of Delaware to urge all citizens to become familiar with the services and benefits offered by the career and technical education programs in thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB204 | Intro
25% | Before October 1, 2020, Delaware was 1 of only 3 states that did not offer some form of adult dental coverage through Medicaid. With the enactment of Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill 92 (150th General Assembly) (Chapter 187 of Volume 82 of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SR17 | Engross
50% | This Senate Resolution recognizes the We Are The Moms Foundation for its contributions toward raising awareness of firearm violence in the State of Delaware and providing support to victims families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR107 | Engross
50% | This Senate Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership, achievements, and sacrifices 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. Da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB4 | Intro
25% | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 4. Like Senate Bill No. 4 this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SCR103 | Engross
50% | This Resolution establishes the Delaware Aquaculture Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB128 | Pass | This Act establishes the crime of obstruction of justice. Nearly every other state has a statutory crime of obstruction of justice and this Act is modeled on laws that prohibit intentional obstruction of justice and interference with governmental fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB67 | Pass | This Act updates the crime of official misconduct to ensure appropriate accountability of public servants who abuse their positions of power and public trust. The statute establishes a grade in the penalty for the official misconduct to be commensura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB153 | Pass | This Act makes changes to provisions related to behavioral health and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to reflect current practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB8 | Pass | This Act is the second substitute for Senate Bill No. 8. Like Senate Bill No. 8 and its first substitute, this Act protects patients from unfair debt collection practices for medical debt, including prohibiting large health care facilities from charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB91 | Pass | Delaware law on the application to an authorized judge for the intercept of wire communications was written prior to the creation of the statutory divisions of Family, Fraud and Consumer Protection, and Civil Rights and Public Trust, within the Delaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
