| DE | SB123 | Pass | This Act provides that any adult day care facility required to be licensed under Chapter 1 of Title 16 is subject to the existing reporting obligations for facilities under Subchapter III of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB142 | Pass | This bill precludes the so-called LGBTQ+ "panic" defense that seeks to partially or completely excuse or justify a defendant from full accountability for the commission of a crime on the grounds that the actual or perceived sexual orientati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB193 | Pass | In 2016, the General Assembly passed HB 404, the Concussion Protection in Youth Athletic Activities Act (CPYAAA). This Act clarifies the requirements of CPYAAA and enables the Division of Public Health, in consultation with the State Council for Pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB83 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund to develop opportunities for banking organizations and credit unions doing business in Delaware to better serve the needs of low to moderate income tracts in Delaware. The source of fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB36 | Pass | This Act provides a definition for 911 Dispatchers. While referenced in other sections of the Code, including being identified as a first responder in § 4319 of Title 11 for purposes of confidentiality of communications by first responders for criti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-21
Signed by Governor |
| 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 | SB152 | Pass | This Act expands the rights of long-term care facility residents by ensuring that long-term care facility residents are entitled to care that recognizes cultural differences and preferences and that long-term care facility residents are made aware of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB78 | Pass | This Act updates the definition of a catalytic converter and limits the purchase or sale of a catalytic converter to a licensed automotive recycler or licensed scrap metal processor, and their respective employees and agents. The Act prohibits minors...
[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 | HB82 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Elections to biennially mail a notice to all registered voters informing the registrant of their polling place and containing the following additional information: a brief description of all available methods of vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-09-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR1 | Pass | This Senate Joint Resolution directs the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to explore participating in the federal title IV-E Guardianship Assistance Program to increase support to relative guardians and facilitate perma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB80 | Pass | Senate Bill No. 80 codifies the current practice in Delaware of not requiring proof of citizenship or a specific immigration status on an application for a professional license. By affirmatively providing eligibility for professional licenses regardl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB108 | Pass | This Act revises the State's Gold Alert Program to include missing children and increase dissemination of information to the public to better assist the State's search efforts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB227 | Pass | This Act makes various amendments to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act to improve compliance with its testing and reporting requirements. First, this Act requires physicians to take a training program every 2 years relating to the provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB72 | Pass | In 2017, the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Public Law No. 115-97, suspended many itemized deductions from individual federal taxes until January 1, 2026, including the itemized deduction for costs to maintain membership in a labor organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB132 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act amends § 6504 of Title 10 to correct two erroneous cross-references (the cross-references will now correctly reference Title 12 rather than Title 10 of the Delaware Code).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB185 | Pass | This Act extends the date that the requirements created by Senate Bill 283 in the 151st become effective to allow the Division of Professional Regulation more time to implement these requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB98 | Pass | This Act allows Dental Clinicians possessing a DDS or DMDS to participate in the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment grant program. The Act also extends the time in which providers may apply for a Health Care Provider Loan Repayment grant from six mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB156 | Pass | This Act establishes the comprehensive framework for the regulation of pet insurance transacted in Delaware. The Act reflects the adoption of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Pet Insurance Model Act, with adjustments made to confor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB157 | Pass | This Act, the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, was drafted by the Uniform Law Commission in partnership with the American Law Institute. The Uniform Law Commission "provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-18
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB165 | Pass | This Act amends Chapter 25, Title 24 of the Delaware Code relating to the Practice of Pharmacy. The amendments authorize pharmacists to engage in collaborative pharmacy practice with one or more practitioners meaning individuals who are authorized by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB189 | Pass | This Act adds xylazine and it isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers to Schedule III of the Delaware Uniform Controlled Substances Act and expands the authorization for the distribution of testing strips to determine t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB176 | Pass | This Act requires that an owner be reimbursed up to $1,500 annually for veterinary care expenses paid by the owner for the care of a retired law-enforcement canine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB176 | Pass | This bill would extend various deadlines in the Unemployment Code. The intent is to provide claimants and employers additional time to receive and prepare a response or appeal of benefit determinations and other important documents that require a res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB218 | Pass | This Act changes the composition of the Commission and further clarifies the definition of veterans as it pertains to this Section of Title 29. The Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs is comprised of members, appointed by the Governor, who repres...
[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 | HB83 | Pass | This Act requires every public school and charter school to provide students enrolled in kindergarten with an oral health screening by the last student attendance day of each school year. Notification to the parent or guardian must be done and a copy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB157 | Pass | This Act prohibits a pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or scrap metal processor from purchasing or otherwise acquiring a gift card or other item in its original packaging unless the individual offering the item for sale produces a receipt or proof of pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR2 | Pass | This resolution designates August 31, 2023, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware, affirms the importance of overdose awareness, and encourages expanded efforts to keep Delaware residents properly informed of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB170 | Pass | This Act directs the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to work with PJM Interconnection, LLC to study the transmission impacts of offshore wind development, to work with neighboring states on offshore wind transmission, and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB7 | Pass | This Bill amends the Delaware Energy Act, Title 29 of the Delaware Code, Chapter 80, Subchapter II, by updating and expanding upon the duties of the State Energy Office (located in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Controls Divisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB182 | Pass | Sections 1 through 6 of this Act revise the State's existing child abuse laws as follows:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB183 | Pass | This Act revises the existing crime of endangering the welfare of a child by providing or permitting a child to consume or inhale unprescribed controlled substances in the following ways:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB137 | Pass | This Act corrects the Delaware crisis text number and the National Suicide Prevention call or text line that is required to be printed on pupil identification cards for all public schools serving pupils in grades 7 to 12 and for all students attendin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB161 | Pass | This Act allows the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to assist more small businesses and organizations in making energy efficiency improvements to their facilities by raising the proportion of those projects that can be funde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB26 | Pass | This Act provides state employees 30, rather than 15, days of paid leave per year to attend training camp or serve special duty as ordered by the military reserves or Delaware National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB115 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the GP Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB112 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the LP Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB179 | Pass | This Act replaces references to Masters in the Court of Chancery with Magistrate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB9 | Pass | Although lead-based paint is prevalent in many Delaware residences and causes extraordinary neurological damage in children, including seizures, behavioral disorders, developmental delays, and cognitive disabilities, Delaware does not have a comprehe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB81 | Pass | This statutory addition to Delawares Wrongful Death Act will permit the spouse, parents, children, and siblings of a deceased person to recover punitive damages when the actions resulting in the death of another person were maliciously intended or th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB113 | Pass | This Act continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the LLC Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB114 | Pass | Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this Act amend §§ 152, 153, 157 and 160 of Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB144 | Pass | This Act increases the number of members of a limited liability corporation who are eligible for exemption from workers compensation reimbursement from four to eight, making the number equal to the number of officers in a traditional corporation who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB111 | Pass | This Act increases the length of time for a valid temporary tag from 60 days to 90 days. This Act also adds a new provision requiring temporary tags be issued through a temporary tag system, approved by the Division of Motor Vehicles, to further redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB160 | Fail | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2024 Bond and Capital Improvements Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB89 | Pass | This Bill allows for the use of green lights on state owned and operated snow removal equipment and vehicles during winter weather operations. Studies have shown green lights are more visible to the traveling public during winter weather conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB126 | Pass | This Act clarifies that State building code and other local codes must align with substitute standards for refrigerants as approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency through their federal listing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB94 | Pass | The expectation for speed enforcement, under Delaware's Motor Vehicle statute, are Delaware's law enforcement agencies. It is not always possible for law enforcement officers to effectively enforce the speed limitations due to a number of fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB146 | Pass | This bill increases the assessments charged to insurance companies to fund the increased costs of the operation of the Fraud Prevention Bureau.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
Signed by Governor |
