| DE | HB293 | Engross
50% | Federal and Delaware law protect the right to vote and the rights of individuals with disabilities to have equal access to voting places and public facilities. Nonetheless, recent information suggests that a substantial number of polling places in De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HCR109 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution reaffirms the State of Delawares commitment to fostering an inclusive and participatory democracy where the voices of young people are valued, respected, and heard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB5 | Intro
25% | The States Medicaid Plan still limits the reimbursement of Medicaid-covered, school-based behavioral health services to those provided under an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), despite federal pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB125 | Intro
25% | During the COVID-19 pandemic the U.S. Department of Agriculture eased program restrictions to allow for free breakfast and lunch for all students. With the expiration of U.S. Department of Agriculture waivers on June 30, 2022, Delaware schools partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB290 | Intro
25% | This Act removes a barrier to higher education by allowing a student who has been convicted of a violent felony to qualify for or maintain eligibility for a SEED scholarship if other eligibility criteria are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB17 | Intro
25% | This Act requires all employers in the State to provide employees with a minimum of 1 hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked. For employers of fewer than 10 employees, the time may be unpaid, job-protected time instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB378 | Intro
25% | This Act requires health spas selling subscription services online to provide a prospective buyer of such a subscription the right to cancel the automatic renewal online. The option to cancel is also to be presented on the website in a clear and cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HCR107 | Engross
50% | This Resolution recognizes April 11 - 17, 2024, as "Black Maternal Health Awareness Week" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HCR110 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution supports Congressional efforts to proclaim the fourth Thursday in March a National Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB345 | Engross
50% | This Act requires Medicaid coverage for additional postpartum visits with a doula upon recommendation of a licensed practitioner or clinician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB340 | Intro
25% | This Act authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB15 | Pass | This Act requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer. It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB263 | Engross
50% | This Act prohibits local education agencies and charter schools from prohibiting a student from participating in a school sponsored extracurricular activity on the basis the student has an outstanding debt for unpaid school meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 5 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB87 | Engross
50% | This Act establishes the Delaware Agricultural Production Assistance Program. The Program will provide a subsidy of up to 30% of the premium for eligible producers multi-peril crop insurance premium, or whole farm revenue protection premium up to a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | HCR91 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 13, 2024, as Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated or Kappa Alpha Psi Day at the Capitol in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB335 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that any general salary increase, salary supplement, or one-time adjustment payable to public school employees likewise be payable to charter school employees. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB7 | Intro
25% | This Act requires Delaware Medicaid to provide an enhancement to the acute care per diem rate for psychiatric facilities for hard to place pediatric behavioral health inpatients. The per diem enhancement is limited to an inpatient stay of 14 days. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB116 | Pass | This Act requires public institutions of higher learning to grant credit for advanced placement examination scores of 3 or higher. An instution may require a score higher than 3 if the credit is to be used for meeting a course requirement for a parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR79 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution hereby designates January 23, 2024 as Maternal Health Awareness Day in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB118 | Pass | Due to continuing concerns over the negative health effects secondhand smoke will have on the youth of Delaware, this bill adds Smoking Restrictions within vehicles if a person under the age of eighteen (18) is in the vehicle. Also, it makes clear th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB188 | Pass | This Act codifies the Equity Ombudsman program, the purpose of which is to provide students and families encountering inequity in the school system with non-lawyer advocates to assist them. The Educational Equity Council, as a stakeholder council, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB174 | Pass | This Act requires a referral to a school-based mental or behavioral health specialist for any student after their second unduplicated infraction resulting in out-of-school suspension in a semester. This Substitute bill clarifies that the referral is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB138 | Pass | This Act establishes a Delaware Educator Apprenticeship Program to be developed by the Department of Education. The Department of Education will work with the Department of Labor to create a program that places aspiring teachers in paid positions in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB4 | Pass | This Act is Nolans Law. The purpose of this legislation is to provide more behavioral health supports to school districts and charter schools in the aftermath of a school-connected traumatic event, which is defined as the death of any student, educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB3 | Pass | According to a recent CDC survey, the COVID pandemic exacerbated an existing mental health crisis for students. One in 5 school aged children has a mental health condition, and 45% of children may have experienced a traumatic event. This bill provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB62 | Pass | This Act requires that each county reassess the value of real property in the county at least once every 5 years. The first 5-year period starts when the reassessment currently being conducted by each county is completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB169 | Pass | This Act requires the Secretary of Education to publish and deliver to the General Assembly a report detailing requests for certificates of necessity that are not included in the proposed capital budget and the reasons for the rejection and a ranking...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB231 | Pass | This Act provides clarity on the type of certification and the accepted certifying agencies for increases over the basic salary schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB99 | Pass | This Act, known as the Delaware Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023, follows the issuance of Delawares Climate Action Plan in 2021, and establishes a statutory target of greenhouse gas emissions reductions over the medium and long term to mitigate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB72 | Pass | This bill raises the public bidding thresholds for procurement of goods, contractual services, professional services and public works contracts by county governments to match the bidding thresholds set forth by the State of Delawares Contracting and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB215 | Fail | Section 1 of this bill moves the date of primary elections for statewide office, county office, and municipal office to the fourth Tuesday in April, which is the date of the presidential primary (in presidential election years). The dates for submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 3 NO 18 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HCR71 | Engross
50% | This resolution recognizes November 2023 as Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HCR67 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution recognizes the month of June 2023 as Caribbean American Heritage Month in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB248 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a pre-permit community outreach process for any qualified project, as defined in DNREC Regulations, that wishes to apply for a permit within 3 months, in an underserved community. Underserved community is defined in (5) specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-23
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| DE | HB33 | Pass | This Act increases funding for preschool children with disabilities who are not counted in either "intensive" or "complex" special education units by revising the current ratio of 12.8 students per unit to 8.4 students per unit fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR65 | Engross
50% | This Resolution proclaims June 19, 2023. as Juneteenth National 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 approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB173 | Intro
25% | Currently school employees must use their accumulated sick leave to take off for a religious holiday that is not a State recognized religious holiday. This Act allows for 2 floating holidays per school year that would not fall within a State recogniz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB175 | Intro
25% | This Act adds provisions to Title 21 defining accessible parking spaces, incorporating federal standards for accessible parking spaces found in the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable regulations. The Act also provides additional requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB200 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware high schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2024, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 9-12 for a full-time school counselor, schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
Amendment HA 1 to HB 200 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HCR48 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution commends the 2023 Delaware Educational Support Professional of the Year, Heather Hitchens, and all of the District/Charter Network Educational Support Professionals of the Year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB128 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the following new tax brackets for taxable years after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB88 | Pass | Under Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill No. 78 (151st), the Commissioner of Elections (Commissioner) must determine that an individual does not have any disqualifying convictions before the individual can be a candidate for election to a school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB2 | Pass | The Delaware Marijuana Control Act regulates and taxes marijuana for recreational use in much the same manner as alcohol. It creates a framework for production, manufacture, and sale in a legal recreational marijuana industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB135 | Engross
50% | This bill requires that of the five Justices appointed to the Supreme Court, at least one is a resident of Kent County, at least one is a resident of Sussex County and at least two are residents of New Castle County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB6 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the State to fund a Mental Health Professional and Mental Health Coordinator position for each district and charter school by the 2024-25 school year. The Mental Health Professional and Mental Health Coordinator must develop partner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB1 | Pass | This Act removes all penalties for use or possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana and marijuana accessories. It further specifies that the adult sharing of a personal use quantity or less of marijuana is legal activity for those 21 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-23
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB34 | Pass | House Bill No. 34 requires school boards, including charter schools, to permit public comment on each agenda item presented for a vote at a school board meeting. The public comment period must take place before the school board vote on an agenda item...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB29 | Intro
25% | This Act increases the Senior Real Property Tax credit to $750 from $400 as authorized in the Appropriations Bill for fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, which effectively amended Title 29, § 6102(q)(3) from $500 to $400.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HCR36 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes April 6, 2023, as Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated or AKA Day at the Capital in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR29 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes March 8, 2023, as "National Women-Owned Small Business Day" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
