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DEHB191Enroll
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This substitute bill provides more clarity on the process by which a tenant may file an action in the Justice of the Peace Court to withhold rent payments in escrow. Specifically, the bill provides what the tenant must file in order to bring such act...
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2024-06-30
Laid On Table in House
DEHB155Enroll
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This bill makes the unsafe storage of a firearm in a vehicle a class A misdemeanor if the person knowingly leaves a firearm unattended in a vehicle and the firearm is not stored in a locked box or container, a firearms rack that is on the motor vehic...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO
DEHB212Enroll
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House Substitute No. 2 to House Bill 212 prohibits manufactured home community owners from increasing rent if the rent was increased by 5 percent or more the previous year or rental period, instead permitting an increase capped at 3 percent. This Act...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 29 YES 10 NO 1 ABSENT
DEHB86Enroll
75%
This Act establishes a right to counsel for indigent parents in DSCYF custody proceedings. Parent representation will primarily be provided by a legal services entity contracted with the Family Court, but may also be provided by the Office of Defense...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB298Enroll
75%
This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees (JLOSC) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (Commission), whose purpose is to improve the response to and redu...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB340Enroll
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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.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB318Enroll
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This Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the interveni...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB310Enroll
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The United States Space Force was established on December 20, 2019 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The Space Force became the 6th branch of the United States Armed Forces. This Act inserts the Space Force in those sections of the D...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB387Enroll
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This Act is the result of a successful pilot project involving disadvantaged business enterprises in State contracts. In 2023, Section 189 of Senate Bill No. 35, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 2, authorized the Office of Management and Budget (OM...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB378Enroll
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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...
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES
DEHB363Enroll
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This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once the...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING
DEHB404Enroll
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To address the significant spread and impact of Lyme Disease in Delaware, this bill creates a Lyme Disease intervention fund. The fund shall be overseen by the Department of Agriculture and shall have the goal of reducing the prevalence of Lyme disea...
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB16Enroll
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This Act requires that Medicaid and State employee health plans cover: (1) ovarian cancer monitoring tests for women treated for ovarian cancer; and (2) annual screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer.
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2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB383Enroll
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This substitute for House Bill 383 does the following:
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2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB267Enroll
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This Act prohibits the Family Court from imposing a sentence of incarceration or ordering the suspension of a persons license for failure to pay court-ordered child support unless it finds that the failure to pay is wilful and not due to an inability...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO
DEHB356Enroll
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On military installations subject to exclusive federal jurisdiction, the investigation and prosecution of juveniles for alleged violation of federal crimes is conducted in the federal court system. The federal court system often tries juveniles as ad...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB366Enroll
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This Act sunsets the Technology Investment Council ("TIC"). The Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee ("JLOSC") reviewed TIC in 2022 and, as a result of the review, JLOSC sponsored House Bill No. 357 of the 151st Genera...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB368Enroll
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This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Provider Advisory Board ("Board"). Based on its findings, JLOSC recommended sunsetting the Board, which is addressed in sep...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB367Enroll
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This Act sunsets the Provider Advisory Board (Board) and is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Board. The Board was created in 2011 at JLOSC's recommendation when it reviewed t...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB70Enroll
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This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the persons 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the persons natural li...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO
DEHB332Enroll
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This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB353Enroll
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This Act provides civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful disclosure of deep fakes that depict individuals in the nude or engaging in sexual conduct. It provides the same remedies as those available under: (1) the Delaware Uniform Civil Remedies...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB393Enroll
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This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of Adult Protective Services ("APS"). JLOSC approved recommendations to modify several areas of the APS statute, Chapter 39 of Tit...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB354Enroll
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This Act gives the dependent children of active military members, full-time Delaware National Guard members, and active duty members of a reserve component of the US military priority in choice and charter enrollment.
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB5Enroll
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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...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB362Enroll
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In 2023, the General Assembly passed House Bill 80, which required the coverage of doula services under the States Medicaid plan beginning in 2024. This Act would require similar coverage under private health insurance plans.
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB426Enroll
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This Act ensures that pregnant women in DOC custody, at Level IV or V, are able to meet with a doula or midwife to create a birth plan surrounding the birth of their child. Among other things, the birth plan must include a statement identifying a pre...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB125Enroll
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This House Substitute bill eliminates any reference to § 4137 in Title 11 since it will remain as a separate section in the Delaware Code. This House Substitute requires all public schools to offer only students who qualify for a reduced-price meal,...
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2024-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB293Enroll
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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...
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2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB252Enroll
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This Substitute bill differs from House Bill No. 252 by placing the Delaware Institute of Higher Education year-long teacher residency program under Section 1312 of Title 14 rather than Section 1305.This Substitute bill grants graduates of the Delawa...
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2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB328Enroll
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Senate Bill No. 288 of the 151st General Assembly (Chapter 371 of Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware) created a pilot program whereby motorcyclists are permitted to use pulsating headlights as a way to alert other drivers of their presence, without al...
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2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB253Enroll
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This Act is a substitute for House Bill 253. Like HB 253, it requires health insurance companies, including State employee/retiree health plans and Medicaid, to cover annual mammograms for the purpose of early detection for a woman 40 years of age or...
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2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB392Enroll
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The United States Department of Agriculture runs a voluntary program that provides risk management coverage to dairy producers that pays out based on the difference between the national price of milk and the average cost of feed. This Act enables the...
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2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB204Enroll
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This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses and other staff positions in long-term care facilities in the S...
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2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB401Enroll
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This Act amends Section 2603 of Title 16 to require the Division of Public Health to provide the results of lead screenings or tests to school nurses and require contracts or computer upgrades to include lead results.
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2024-06-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB279Enroll
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This Act allows school employees up to 5 days of bereavement leave under the same circumstances as permitted for state employees.
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB23Enroll
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This Act does the following:
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB273Enroll
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This Substitute bill adds 5 additional speech-language diagnosis to the 2 diagnoses listed in H.B. 273 and references that all 7 speech-language diagnoses are classified in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for billing purposes. T...
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2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
DEHB286Enroll
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Like House Bill No. 286, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 286 prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test.
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2024-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT
DEHB355Enroll
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This Act provides legal protections for financial institutions and other entities that provide financial or accounting services to cannabis-related businesses that are licensed or registered under Delaware law. Specifically, it clarifies that banks, ...
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO
DEHB255Enroll
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This Act makes several updates to the Boiler Safety Program. The Boiler Safety Program can issue certificates of compliance and the Secretary can grant variances. A 6th member is added to the Boiler Safety Council from associated labor unions. It add...
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB200Enroll
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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...
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB405Enroll
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This Act removes the requirement that a juvenile can only be referred to the the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program a second or subsequent time if the juveniles prior referral was for a different offense than the second referral, allowing a juv...
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB382Enroll
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This Act requires that public school students receive a vision screening, including a test for color blindness, in kindergarten. Students must also receive vision screenings at appropriate intervals in grades 1 through 12, to be determined by the DOE...
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB364Enroll
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This Act requires that individual, blanket, and group health insurance carriers cover drug treatment for the associated conditions of metastatic cancer in the same way treatment for metastatic cancer is covered. Specifically, it requires insurance co...
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2024-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
DEHB284Enroll
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This is a clean-up bill that moves certain workers compensation-related provisions in Chapter 25 of Title 18 to Chapter 26 of Title 18, the latter of which shall exclusively govern workers compensation filings. The bill also makes technical correctio...
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2024-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT
DEHB302Enroll
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According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of death from cancer in men. It is estimated that about 1 in 41 men will die of prostate cancer. According to ZERO Prostate Cancer, Black men face serious health ca...
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2024-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT
DEHB317Enroll
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This bill creates a requirement for all sellers of third-party gift cards to display a notice of potential scams involving gift cards.
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2024-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT
DEHB377Enroll
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This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee (RHBAS). Under this Act, the State must continue to offer eligible pensioners first employed by the State as a regular of...
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2024-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT
DEHB376Enroll
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This Act implements a recommendation from the December 31, 2023, Report of the Retiree Healthcare Benefits Advisory Subcommittee. Under this Act, the state group health insurance program must include a pensioner coordination of benefits policy for el...
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2024-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 4 ABSENT
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