| DE | SB127 | Pass | The purpose of this legislation is to promote sustained economic growth and stability by establishing a fund to provide grants, loans or other economic assistance to businesses or public entities that invest in constructing, renovating or improving i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-27
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB200 | Pass | 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] | 2021-07-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB158 | Pass | This bill expands prison-based jobs to provide work experience and job skill training and will assist offenders with reentry, while also maintaining Department of Correction (DOC) facilities. DOC has not been able to increase the number of offender j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB15 | Pass | This bill provides for gradual increases in the Delaware minimum wage to $15 over a period of several years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB56 | Pass | This Act codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how the funding is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB100 | Enroll | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware elementary schools. The unit is at a ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades K-5 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB72 | Pass | This Act clarifies that discrimination against any person because of religion is illegal under Chapter 45 of Title 6, the Delaware Equal Accommodations Act. Religion and religious beliefs were always intended to be protected under the Delaware Equal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB5 | Pass | This Act creates an automatic voter registration system at the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and grants the State Election Commissioner the authority to implement automatic voter registration at other state agencies that already offer vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB120 | Pass | This Act makes changes to House Bill 202 from the 150th General Assembly creating a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to use external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that fail to stop when a school bus is stopped ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB94 | Pass | Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 243 (150th General Assembly) enacted § 10006A of Title 29, which allows an advisory body to hold a virtual meeting, if there is an anchor location that is open to the public, allows any public body to hold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB142 | Enroll | This Act promotes the expansion of licensure opportunities in Delaware while maintaining standards of competence and professionalism required for the protection of the citizens of Delaware. The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Survey...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB104 | Pass | This Act clarifies various aspects of the States procedures to operate its unclaimed property program, including promoting and determining holder compliance, processing owner claims, and preventing fraudulent claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB116 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB114 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB115 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Revised Uniform Partnership Act (the Act) to keep it current and to maintain its national preeminence. The following is a section-by-section review of the proposed amendments of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB113 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act amends § 160(c) to clarify that shares of a corporation's capital stock held by any other entity (whether a corporation or non-corporate entity) are not entitled to be either voted or counted for quorum purposes if the corpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB175 | Pass | This Act allows one excused absence per school year for students grades 6 through 12 to attend civic engagements such as visits to the United States Capitol, Legislative Hall, and sites of political and cultural significance, or participation in a ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB7 | Pass | This substitute bill incorporates the provisions of Senate Amendment 2 to the original bill, including reiterating in the Whereas statements the existing law that requires persons arrested for a violent felony while out on bail awaiting trial for a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB164 | Pass | Section 1 of the Act amends subsection (b)(1) of section 12A-103 of Title 6 to remove a reference to testamentary trusts that is either a redundancy or otherwise might conflict with new section 3550 of Title 12 (which is a part of the Act).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB174 | Pass | This Act strikes the sections of existing law pertaining to merged instruction and apprenticeship programs for cosmetologists and barbers because no schools have applied for approval to conduct merged programs. This Act authorizes transfer of apprent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR24 | Engross | This Resolution: 1) Celebrates Senate Bill No. 56 and the immediate investment of targeted funding for student needs; 2) Describes the need for additional action from the General Assembly to update and modernize remaining underlying education funding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB182 | Enroll | The Victims Compensation Assistance Program (Agency or VCAP) administers the Victims Compensation Fund and provides financial assistance to eligible victims of crimes to help cover the costs of a variety of services that help victims and their famili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB194 | Enroll | This Act would revise the definition of Committee to include the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware in the body that determines the treatment and disposition of Native American unmarked burials and human skeletal remains. This Act would also add a new d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB147 | Pass | This Act codifies a reasonableness requirement for the use of force, both non-lethal and lethal. This is important when the state of mind is an issue in a criminal trial, such as when the judge or jury must decide as to what someone believed, knew, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB227 | Enroll | This Act adds child abuse in the third degree to the list of enumerated criminal offenses for which, if convicted, one is by definition considered a perpetrator of domestic violence for purposes of this Child Protection From Domestic Violence Act. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB222 | Pass | Currently, blood lead level screening and testing rates are well below what the Division of Public Health would expect them to be based on the risk factors that determine when screening or testing is necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB216 | Pass | Under the Governors Eleventh Modification of the COVID-19 State of Emergency Declaration, and continuing upon passage of Senate Bill No. 247, remote notarization and witnessing by Delaware attorneys via audio-visual technology has been permitted. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB161 | Enroll | According to the Childrens Bureau within the Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico have enacted infant safe haven laws that allow a parent to su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB233 | Enroll | This Act updates the Delaware Code relating to the Delaware Board of Examiners of Psychologists by amending the qualifications for licensure for reciprocity applicants. Currently reciprocity applicants, even those who have practiced many years in ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SCR59 | Engross | This resolution congratulates the class 2019-2020 Eagle Scouts for having attained the highest rank one can earn in the Boy Scouts of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB249 | Enroll | This Act creates a tuition reimbursement program for volunteer firefighters, similar to already existing programs for law enforcement officers and National Guard members. Pursuant to this program, active volunteer firefighters may be reimbursed for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB214 | Enroll | This Act creates the Disabled Veterans Property Tax Relief and Education Fund. Pursuant to this legislation, school districts are authorized to create a credit against school taxes for up to the full amount of school tax liability for property owned ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB149 | Enroll | This Act provides a senior discount for residents and non-residents 62 years of age and older, for a conservation access pass, and a life-time conservation access pass for Delaware residents, 65 years of age and older, consistent with current senior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB261 | Intro | The ability of insured dependents and other insured members to receive confidential sensitive health care services without the knowledge of the insured policyholder is greatly impeded through traditional billing processes utilized by health insurers....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB262 | Intro | This Act seeks to provide consumers with critical information about how their personal information is being used by data brokers. This Act requires data brokers to register with the Consumer Protection Unit of the Department of Justice and answer que...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB264 | Intro | This Act permits a person who has been the victim of non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration to apply for a sexual violence protective order if the person has a reasonable fear, based on specific conduct occurring contempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB166 | Enroll | Like House Bill No. 166, House Substitute No. 1 for House Bill No. 166 establishes the Elevate Delaware program. Elevate Delaware will provide payments for tuition and auxiliary expenses, up to $10,000, for individuals to attend an approved non-credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB43 | Enroll | This Act extends the limited licensing exemption for adjusters, who are dispatched by insurers to the State after catastrophic events, such as hurricanes or tornadoes, to appraisers. This change will allow for the prompt appraisal and settlement of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB28 | Enroll | This Act represents the consensus agreement among the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and stakeholders to provide the public with access to de-identified accident data. Access to the crash history of inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB47 | Enroll | This Act clarifies that yard waste is included in the types of trash and litter that it is illegal to discard on a highway. This Act also defines yard waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB136 | Enroll | The Bill sets forth 8 factors a court must consider in determining a proposed relocation of a child for a period of 60 days or more in litigation involving custody or visitation. These factors include: (1) the nature, quality, extent, and duration of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB93 | Enroll | This Act provides protections for consumers in connection with contracts with automatic renewal provisions. Multiple states have enacted laws regulating the automatic renewals of contracts, often described as "evergreen" clauses. These stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB145 | Engross | This Act will allow Delaware residents two new deductions from personal income tax. The first is a deduction from taxable income of up to $1,000 for contributions to an account in a Delaware-sponsored qualified tuition program, as that term is define...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| DE | SB105 | Enroll | This Act allows pharmacists to administer or dispense contraceptives under a standing order from the Division of Public Health. At least 11 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands allow pharmacists to dispense contraceptives wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 35 YES 6 NO |
| DE | SB107 | Enroll | This Act requires that individual, group, State employee, and public assistance insurance plans provide coverage for a medically necessary insulin pump at no cost to a covered individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB159 | Enroll | This act modifies the locations at which sheriffs sales may be conducted to provide the sheriffs with needed flexibility and to modernize the sheriffs sale process. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has revealed substantial inflexibility in 10 Del. C. § ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SJR2 | Enroll | This Senate Joint Resolution requires the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to engage authoritative federal agencies to identify the administrative structure, legal structure, and resource needs to establish a State nontidal w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 7 NO |
| DE | SB123 | Enroll | This bill will allow all surviving spouses of persons killed in the course and scope of employment to receive the same level of death benefits as the surviving spouses of those persons defined as covered persons in Section 6601(2), Title 18 of the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB190 | Enroll | This Act updates the domestic violence first offender diversion program to allow the following offenses to be eligible for the program: assault third, terroristic threatening, and criminal contempt of a domestic violence protective order or lethal vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SCR50 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution establishes the purpose and protocol for the creation of an annual report on home visiting programs in Delaware. The report is to be prepared by the Department of Health and Social Services in consultation with the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
