Delaware Representative Sherry Dorsey Walker [D] | House | Bills | Introduced

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
DE	HB391	Intro 25%	Delaware relies on fees imposed as surcharges by the criminal legal system to generate revenue for government services. These criminal fees can be an unstable revenue generator, especially when there are recessions, pandemics, or other major economic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-13 To House Appropriations 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]	2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 6 On Its Merits
DE	HB426	Intro 25%	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DE	HB435	Intro 25%	This bill creates a new chapter in Title 30 and establishes the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Program (STAR Program) and the STEM Talent Advancement and Retention Fund (STAR Fund). The purpose of this STAR Program is to incentivize and attrac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
DE	HB387	Intro 25%	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
DE	HB400	Intro 25%	This Act 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 submitting and withdr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-12 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
DE	HB427	Intro 25%	This Act protects consumers by regulating home improvement contracts. Among other things, this Act provides the buyer with a right to cancel home improvement contracts within 3 days (5 days for those over the age of 62 or with a disability); limits c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-12 To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DE	HB203	Intro 25%	With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-11 Amendment HA 3 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DE	HB421	Intro 25%	This bill amends section 1318 of Title 14 to provide an education employee paid time off to recover from injury incurred in the performance of duty. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-06 To House Education 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]	2024-05-24 Motion to Release Failed
DE	HB394	Intro 25%	This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee's ("JLOSC") review of the Delaware Health Resources Board, which this Act renames the Delaware Health Resources Advisory Board ("Advisory Board"). Ba... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-22 To House Appropriations Committee
DE	HB415	Intro 25%	This Act ensures that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opportunities. To that end, this Act sets forth the rights of individual... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-21 To House Judiciary Committee
DE	HB422	Intro 25%	This Act defines certain facilities which will require an applicant seeking a permit for a new facility, or expansion of an existing facility, or renewal of an existing permit, located in an overburdened community, as defined in the Act, to provide a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee
DE	HB388	Intro 25%	This Act updates the Clean Indoor Air Act to include the burning of marijuana or the use of marijuana in an electronic smoking device as a prohibited activity in all the same locations where smoking a tobacco product or using an electronic smoking de... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 To House Health & Human Development Committee
DE	HB59	Intro 25%	This Act establishes a residential drinking water purification system program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Not Worked in 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	HB147	Intro 25%	This Act is a substitute for House Bill No. 147. Like House Bill No. 147, this Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate. This is done by permitting an owner of an interest in real estate to execute and record a transfer on ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 147
DE	HB331	Intro 25%	This Act creates a scholarship for students who have completed a Delaware Teacher Academy and are enrolled in a Delaware Educator Preparation Program. This scholarship supplements the Educator Support Scholarship and is intended to fill a $2500 fundi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 To House Appropriations Committee
DE	HB55	Intro 25%	This Act is the Bill of Rights for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness to ensure that all individuals, regardless of housing status, have equal opportunity to live in decent, safe, sanitary, and healthful accommodations and enjoy equality of opport... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-27 Not Worked in Committee
DE	HB70	Intro 25%	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits
DE	HB301	Intro 25%	This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits
DE	HB189	Intro 25%	This Act makes clear that corporations and other artificial entities may not be given a vote in municipal elections. Section 1 of this Act prohibits a municipality from giving corporations and other artificial entities the right to vote within the mu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-13 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits
DE	HB327	Intro 25%	The purpose of this Act is to protect victims of sexual assault, discrimination, or harassment from retaliatory lawsuits that arise when a victim of sexual assault discloses information regarding an act of sexual assault, discrimination, or harassmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-13 Tabled in Committee
DE	HB307	Intro 25%	This Act provides a tuition waiver for victims of human trafficking who are enrolled in the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, or Delaware Technical Community College. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-29 To House Education Committee
DE	HB37	Intro 25%	It is the policy of this State that meaningful sanctions be imposed upon those who allow dangerous conditions and defects to exist in leased premises and that an effective mechanism be established for repairing these conditions and halting their crea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-14 Not Worked in Committee
DE	HB170	Intro 25%	This Act does all of the following regarding suspected human trafficking of children: [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-14 To House Appropriations Committee
DE	HB165	Intro 25%	This bill codifies the prosecutions obligation under Brady v. Maryland, a United State Supreme Court case, which requires the prosecution to provide evidence favorable to an accused. The purpose of this bill is to ensure the fairness and finality of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
DE	HB210	Intro 25%	This bill provides that public sales of real estate may occur via an online auction process. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
DE	HB220	Intro 25%	This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to conserve, protect and maintain Delaware's natural resources, including its water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate. This Amendment would create an inherent and i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits
DE	HB199	Intro 25%	This bill grants authority to the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to adopt regulations related to the operation of temporary nurse staffing agencies that staff temporary nurses in long-term care facilities in the State and assigns ove... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-06-09 Stricken in House
DE	HB136	Intro 25%	While the exact number of nurse vacancies in Delaware fluctuates, healthcare providers agree that the current shortage is unsustainable. Nursing shortages lead to error, higher morbidity, and mortality rates. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-18 To House Appropriations Committee
DE	HB150	Intro 25%	This bill is the Cover All Delaware Children Act. Many children who are undocumented do not have access to routine or preventative healthcare, including vaccinations and physicals, because they cannot afford the services. Instead they may rely upon e... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-18 To House Appropriations Committee
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	HB133	Intro 25%	First responders, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians, and public safety telecommunicators, are crucial to ensuring public safety and health. First responders are at elevated risk for suicide ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-05-11 Amendment HA 1 to HB 133 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
DE	HB112	Intro 25%	In 2022, the General Assembly passed HB 115, which prohibits the criminal prosecution of children under the age of 12, and limits delinquency proceedings for children under 12 to a small set of very serious crimes. This Act clarifies that children un... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-04-26 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable
DE	HB79	Intro 25%	In 2022, the General Assembly passed HB115, which prohibits the criminal prosecution of children under the age of 12 and limits proceeding against a minor as an adult to a narrow set of serious crimes alleged to have been committed by children 16 or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-04-25 Stricken in House
DE	HB101	Intro 25%	This Act directs DelDOT and DNREC to develop a program to allow for the expedited review of entrance plans and stormwater and sediment plans associated with new development. Under this process a consultant pre-approved by DelDOT and/or DNREC would co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-03-30 To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DE	HB90	Intro 25%	This Act requires large health-care facilities to provide information to uninsured patients regarding eligibility and the application process for medical assistance. Information must be provided at the time of service or prior to discharge, and again... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-03-16 To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee
DE	HB41	Intro 25%	This bill creates the Delaware Digital Right to Repair Act. Currently when an electronic product such as a phone or electronic game breaks, it is only allowed to be repaired by the manufacturer. Parts are not available whether you are a consumer or a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-03-07 Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
DE	HB36	Intro 25%	This Act decreases by 1% the rate of the realty transfer tax to be received by the State, thereby returning it to the rate that was applicable prior to August 1,2017. The Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-01-26 To House Appropriations Committee
DE	HB27	Intro 25%	This Act raises the public bidding thresholds for procurement of goods, contractual services, professional services, and public works contracts by the government of New Castle County to match the bidding thresholds established by the States Contracti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2023-01-17 Not Worked in Committee