| DE | HB280 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB118 | Pass | This Act enables Sussex County to establish ordinances, rules, and regulations regarding property maintenance and penalties for violations of said ordinances, rules, and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB96 | Enroll | In January of 2015, the Office of Civil Rights & Public Trust was created by the Attorney General to establish a centralized office within the Department of Justice for the investigation of matters concerning civil rights enforcement and the pros...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB275 | Enroll | This bill permits the owner of a beer garden or food establishment to permit leashed dogs on licensed outdoor patios of food establishments and in beer gardens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB263 | Engross | This Act requires that individual, group, and State employee insurance plans cap the amount an individual must pay for insulin prescriptions at $100 a month and must include at least 1 formulation of insulin on the lowest tier of the drug formulary d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB277 | Intro | This bill establishes the crimes of possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number, possession of and manufacturing a covert or undetectable firearm, possession of and manufacturing an untraceable firearm, and manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Amendment HA 1 to HB 277 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB285 | Engross | This bill requires all public and charter schools which have students in grades 6-12 to provide free feminine hygiene products in 50% of the bathrooms used by students who can have a menstrual cycle. This bill also requires schools to publish on its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Passed By House. Votes: 33 YES 6 NO 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR78 | Intro | This resolution designates January 2020 as "Human Relations Awareness Month" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB291 | Intro | This bill creates a financial incentive for employers to train and retain apprentices in apprenticeship programs. The purpose of this financial incentive is to encourage employers to create employment opportunities in Delaware and to train Delawares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Labor Committee |
| DE | HB4 | Intro | This Act, known as the James Johnson Sentencing Reform Act, named for Representative JJ Johnson, makes significant changes to the sentencing laws in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB258 | Intro | This bill allows the Department of Correction to implement prison nurseries, which would allow women inmates that give birth during their time incarcerated the option of raising their infant up to the age of 18 months. Studies have shown that prison ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB211 | Intro | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag is a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars 36. U.S.C. § 902.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB200 | Intro | Many of the States waters do not meet water quality standards to support their designated uses, such as for drinking, swimming or supporting aquatic life. The Clean Water for Delaware Act establishes a framework for assessing needs and planning and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB169 | Intro | This bill changes the relationship between physicians and physician assistants from supervisory to collaborative, in recognition of the evolving role of physician assistants and reflecting the education, training, and experience required for licensin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability)) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB194 | Engross | This Act removes the requirement that applicants for a marriage license state their race as part of the application process. Delaware is one of a small number of states that currently requires this information. In October 2019, the United States Dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Housing & Community Affairs) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR66 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution requests that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance study the extension of Medicaid coverage through the first year postpartum. Insurance coverage is a critical factor in determining women's access to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB152 | Enroll | In 2014, the General Assembly created an ignition interlock device program under §§ 4177C and 4177G of Title 21 of the Delaware Code (IID program). The IID program provides individuals whose license or driving privileges have been revoked following...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB41 | Engross | 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] | 2020-01-15
Amendment SA 1 to HB 41 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB262 | Intro | This Act permits the Division of Motor Vehicles to assign special license plates for firefighters, auxiliary members, or volunteer ambulance members to vehicles owned by an artificial entity, including a corporation, company, association, firm, partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 Favorable |
| DE | HCR65 | Engross | This House Concurrent Resolution honors and recognizes the leadership and achievements 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. Day on January 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB205 | Intro | This Act requires that a former foster parent of a child be considered a preferential placement option for a child when the child is placed for adoption less than 13 months after the end of the foster placement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB77 | Pass | This Act aims to make the burglary section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act consolidates the crime of home invasion with existing burglary statutes. Furthermore, this Act recognizes the sanctity of the home and the varied schedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB78 | Pass | This Act aims to make the robbery section of Delawares Criminal Code simpler and fairer. The Act deletes the carjacking sections and embeds them within the existing robbery statutes to remove duplication from the code. Under this Act, robbery in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB131 | Pass | This Act authorizes the State and its counties and municipalities to install and use vehicle height monitoring systems ("vehicle height monitoring system") to assist in the enforcement of applicable State, county, or municipal law regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB32 | Pass | This Act prohibits the practice known as patient brokering, which is the practice where patient brokers are paid a fee to place insured people in treatment centers so that the treatment centers receive thousands of dollars in insurance claim payments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB166 | Pass | This Act encourages school districts and charter schools to cooperate to ensure that State appropriations for school transportation are used efficiently by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB181 | Intro | This Substitute Act modifies the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act to do all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Energy Committee |
| DE | HB74 | Pass | This bill enables a key component of the Take Care Delaware program, a partnership between law enforcement and schools to adopt a trauma-informed approach to children who have been identified at the scene of a traumatic event. The Take Care Delaware ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB148 | Pass | This Act creates the Redding Consortium for Educational Equity ("Consortium"), which replaces the Wilmington Education Improvement Commission ("WEIC"). The Consortium has multiple purposes. First, it will recommend policies and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB79 | Pass | This bill requires the State food safety standards for restaurants to include a system for requiring healthy beverages to be offered as the default beverage with a combination childrens meal inclusive of a drink, sold together at a unit price. It doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB38 | Pass | The Victim-Offender Mediation Committee was established by the 138th General Assembly in 1996. There have been no significant changes to the statute since then. The composition of the Committee and the nature of the services provided by vendors selec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB260 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB37 | Pass | In our modern society, a criminal record can limit a persons opportunities and the quality of life they can achieve for themselves and their families for years, and even decades, after that person has completed the terms of the criminal sentence impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB145 | Intro | This Act enhances 2 existing agricultural horse racing programs, the Delaware Standardbred Breeder's Program and the Delaware Certified Thoroughbred program, by providing additional funding. Under this Act, horsemen provide half of the additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB150 | Engross | This Act requires the Department of Education (Department) to establish a uniform kindergarten registration process. The Department must establish a uniform kindergarten registration process by the 2021 through 2022 school year and the school distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR59 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution acknowledges June as LGBTQA+ Pride Month and recognizes the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 1 NOT VOTING 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB170 | Intro | This Act increases the age requirement for compulsory school attendance in Delaware from 16 to 18 years of age. The age increase is phased in over a 2-year period; accordingly, there is a 1-year interim period where the compulsory school attendance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 1 Favorable, 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB173 | Pass | This bill makes changes to the Adult Correction Healthcare Review Committee by adding the chairpersons of the House and Senate Correction committees as ex-officio non-voting members. This bill also places this Committee within the Criminal Justice Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB5 | Pass | The stacking of sentences can, and has, in some cases, result in severe prison sentences without permitting the sentencing judge any discretion as to the offenders individual circumstances or the facts of the case. In order to provide such judicial d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB225 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB226 | Pass | This Act appropriates $61,980,700 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HJR4 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HJR3 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB248 | Intro | This bill creates a Delaware personal income tax credit, not to exceed $500 per year per individual for interest paid on student loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | HB245 | Intro | This bill creates licensing for recovery housing, which is housing for individuals recovering from substance use disorders that provides a safe and supportive substance-free environment and that may include peer support and other recovery support ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
To House Housing & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB81 | Pass | This Bill clarifies language allowing for the direct deposit of child support owed and collected by employers from individuals under a support order from the Family Court. In addition, this Bill requires employers who have 50 or more employees to sen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB75 | Intro | This Act clarifies that the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (DSCYF) has exclusive jurisdiction over a juvenile's care, custody, and control for any juvenile until at least their 18th birthday. Further, this Act stipu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB123 | Engross | It is an unfortunate reality that many offenders have difficulty re-entering society. Without the ability to provide for themselves and their families through gainful employment, 67.8% of released prisoners are rearrested within three years of releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | SB141 | Engross | Both the Delaware Strategic Fund (Title 29, Chapter 87A, Subchapter II) and the Delaware Technical Innovation Fund (Title 29, Chapter 87A, Subchapter III) provide funding for Delaware businesses, including new businesses in growing technology-related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB105 | Pass | Step therapy protocols are a mechanism by which health insurance companies require patients to try one or more prescriptions drugs before coverage is provided for the actual drug prescribed by the patients health care provider. This Act creates a Ste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Signed by Governor |
