| DE | HB315 | Enroll
75% | This bill provides unit funding for full time employees who shall be hired to provide permanent substitute teaching support in Delaware schools. The bill also provides professional development requirements for those hired into these positions and cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB299 | Enroll
75% | This Act prohibits the seller of consumer goods or services from refusing to accept cash payment, except in limited circumstances. Sales covered by this Act are those made at a retail store through an in-person transaction. The Act does not apply to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB19 | Enroll
75% | This bill defines and regulates electric bicycles. Section 1 adds electric bicycles to the definitions contained in Title 21. Section 2 includes electric bicycle operators and passengers as vulnerable users when on a highway, crosswalk, road shoulder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB151 | Enroll
75% | Acquiring a drivers license is an important part of young adults in foster care achieving normalcy and eventual independence. Yet, youth in long term foster care face numerous unique barriers in this endeavor. Not only are there logistical challenges...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB300 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware middle schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2023, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 6-8 for a full-time school counselor, scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB301 | Enroll
75% | A 2017 survey of Delaware high school students found that during the 12 months before the survey the following occurred:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SJR6 | Enroll
75% | This Senate Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2022, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware and directs the State flag to be lowered to half-staff at State facilities and encourages local governments, busines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB324 | Pass | House Bill 214 enacted by the 148th General Assembly (80 Del. Laws c. 287) expanded the offense of Assault in the Second Degree to include the intentional assault of ambulance operators, rescue squad members, and nurses injured while performing work-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB14 | Enroll
75% | This bill provides a mechanism to grant pension increases to retired State Employees, retired Judges, and retired New State police. This bill dedicates a minimum of 2.33% of payroll to be deposited annually to the Post Retirement Fund. This bill also...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB345 | Enroll
75% | This Act ensures pregnant women and women who have given birth within the past six weeks who are subject to the custody of the Department of Corrections at Level IV or V have access to midwifery and doula services by requiring the Department to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB267 | Enroll
75% | The bill requires that third-party cost-sharing assistance utilized by patients is applied toward the enrollee's health insurance deductibles and any out-of-pocket limits. Additionally, the bill defines what constitutes a cost-sharing requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB100 | Pass | This Act establishes a Public Education Compensation Committee for the purpose of reviewing Delaware's educator compensation structure and its ability to compete with regional school districts, Delaware's private business sector, and other go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB450 | Pass | The Delaware Lethal Firearms Safety Act of 2022 prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, receipt, possession, or transport of assault weapons in Delaware, subject to certain exceptions. One exception is that the Act does no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB451 | Pass | This bill makes a person under the age of 21 prohibited from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition of a firearm except under limited circumstances. Those circumstances are if the person is 18 years of age or older and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB423 | Pass | Federal law permits states to require federal firearms licensees (FFLs) to conduct background checks through a state agency, or point of contact, instead of directly through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB344 | Enroll
75% | This substitute bill places responsibility for development of bias and cultural competency training for healthcare employees in a subcommittee of the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative. The subcommittee will develop training guidelines designed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB447 | Enroll
75% | This Act implements some of the recommendations of the African American Task Force's Safety and Justice Subcommittee. Specifically, it requires that cases or charges that are more than 7 years old be treated as resolved in favor of a child or adu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB456 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends the Charter of the City of Dover, including by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB252 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid recipients for Fiscal Year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB343 | Enroll
75% | This Act requires that the Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to present a plan to the General Assembly by November 1, 2022 for coverage of doula services by Medicaid providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB340 | Enroll
75% | Improving the quality of maternal health care and ensuring full access to it improves health outcomes and reduces preventable pregnancy-related deaths. The United States has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality among high-income countries a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB375 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes the Racial Equity Consortium (Consortium) for the purposes of studying and making recommendations to address the disparities and inequities faced by persons of color in this State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB320 | Enroll
75% | This bill establishes voting by mail under the General Assemblys broad powers under § 1, Article V of the Delaware Constitution to prescribe the means, methods and instruments of voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 12 NO 3 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB377 | Enroll
75% | This Act requires the Department of Education to conduct an annual workforce study of early childhood professionals to support the development of a plan and implementation of a system of supports to grow and deepen the early childhood workforce. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB134 | Engross
50% | Senate Bill No. 134 prohibits a food establishment from providing consumers with a single-service plastic coffee stirrer, cocktail pick, or sandwich pick or with ready-to-eat food or a beverage in polystyrene containers. SB 134 also prohibits food es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB441 | Enroll
75% | This Act provides an alternative means for an educator to demonstrate competency and achieve a standard certificate beyond simply passing a content exam, such as the Praxis II. For those who are within 2 standard errors of measurement of the passing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB251 | Pass | This Act appropriates $378,613,700 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB250 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR9 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR8 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-28
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB330 | Engross
50% | This Act provides that properties owned by the Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware are exempt from taxation. The Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware is an entity created by State law for purposes of planning and development of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-23
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB358 | Intro
25% | This Act decreases by 1% the rate of realty transfer tax to be received by the State, thereby returning to the rate that was applicable prior to August 1, 2017. This will be effective for documents recorded after July 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB422 | Enroll
75% | This Act amends Section 3-304 of the City of Wilmingtons Charter to allow the City of Wilmington to determine whether, and to what extent, its employees are required to be City residents. This Act does not affect residency requirements for City Counc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB93 | Engross
50% | This bill creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to view applications for grants-in-aid and to develop and recommend to the Joint Finance Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-22
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB205 | Enroll
75% | This Act establishes the Delaware Expanding Access for Retirement and Necessary Saving (EARNS) program to serve as a vehicle through which eligible employees may, on a voluntary basis, provide for additional retirement security through a State-facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB188 | Enroll
75% | This Act increases the $2,000 pension exclusion otherwise available for military pensioners under age 60 to $12,500, providing an incentive for military retirees under age 60 to locate in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB234 | Enroll
75% | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance to take the necessary steps to expand Medicaid coverage to pregnant women from the current coverage of 60-days from the end of pregnancy under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB342 | Enroll
75% | Delaware law already prohibits the use of restraints on women who are giving birth or in labor except in limited circumstances. This Act expands that protection to include women in the second or third trimester of pregnancy and those in the 13-week i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR97 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution recognizes June 21, 2022 as "Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HCR100 | Engross
50% | This resolution proclaims June 19, 2022 as Juneteenth 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 appropriate acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB385 | Engross
50% | This Act allows any municipality with a population of 50,000 or more to establish by ordinance rules for the location of liquor stores that are more restrictive than state law, and requires the Alcohol Commissioner to refuse a license for any new est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business & Insurance) in Senate with 6 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB397 | Pass | This Act is the Department of Finance's Annual "housekeeping" legislation. Specifically:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB458 | Intro
25% | This Act authorizes the City of Wilmington to acquire vacant or abandoned property through the exercise of eminent domain when an ordinance declares the acquisition part of a community development plan necessary to prevent the decline or decay of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-15
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB316 | Pass | This bill does all of the following relating to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. First, it adds the Chief Magistrate of the Justice of the Peace Court to the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. Second, it removes the limitations on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB330 | Enroll
75% | This Act renames the Claymont Regional Transportation at First State Crossing in Claymont, Delaware as the "Harris B. McDowell, III Transportation Center" after Senator Harris B. McDowell, III, the longest serving member of the Delaware Gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-14
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB403 | Intro
25% | The Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medicine financially supports Delaware residents who attend veterinary medical schools out of state since Delaware does not have an in-state veterinary medical school. There is currently no requirement that the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-08
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | HB181 | Intro
25% | Delaware is one of a handful of states that has no cap other than unconscionability on interest rates for short-term consumer loans. Under Delaware case law, the unconscionability of an interest rate is decided by a court on a case by case basis. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-08
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 3 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits, 2 Unfavorable |
| DE | SB311 | Intro
25% | This Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-06-02
To Senate Housing Committee |
| DE | HB317 | Intro
25% | This bill is the Cover All Delaware Children Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
Amendment HA 1 to HB 317 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HCR85 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the contributions of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority chapters in the State of Delaware and declares May 17, 2022, to be Delta Day at the Delaware Capital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
