| DE | SB243 | Pass | Since 2009, when video-conferencing was first permitted under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Senate Bill No. 104 (145th General Assembly), technology has continued to evolve and the need to provide more mechanisms for participation by membe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB345 | Pass | Due to the public health emergency caused by COVID-19, several legislative task forces and committees have not been able to fulfill the reporting requirements of the task forces or committees enabling legislation and need additional time to complete ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB244 | Pass | This bill continues the practice of amending periodically the Delaware Statutory Trust 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 Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB248 | Pass | The purpose of the Bill is to allow for the modifications to the Disability Insurance Program for state employees that were included in the Governors Twelfth Modification to the COVID-19 State of Emergency to continue until December 30, 2020 in the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB253 | Pass | This Act ensures that the price protections for Delawareans related to price gouging put in place during the COVID-19 state of emergency do not cease immediately upon the lifting of the COVID-19 state of emergency, but instead continue for a short pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB122 | Veto | This Act creates the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative to improve pregnancy outcomes for women and newborns and such issues as obstetrical blood loss management, pregnant women with substance use disorder, infants impacted by neonatal abstinen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-21
Vetoed by Governor |
| DE | SB201 | Pass | This Act makes additional technical changes to Senate Bill No. 122 and Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 122. The Senate Substitute unanimously passed both chambers during the 1st Session of the 150th General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB343 | 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] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB344 | 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] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB341 | Pass | Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends Section 102(a) to provide that the name of a corporation must be such as to distinguish it from the name of any registered series of a limited partnership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB342 | 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] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB227 | Pass | This Act brings the Division of Motor Vehicles into compliance with federal law by allowing a commercial learner permit to be issued for a period of up to 1 year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB223 | Pass | This Act brings Delaware into compliance with the federal No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act by creating a lifetime disqualification for a commercial diver license if the individual engages in human trafficking while using a motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB247 | Pass | This Act ensures that the protections put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic related to notarizations do not cease immediately upon the lifting of the COVID-19 State of Emergency, but instead continue until June 30, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB346 | Pass | This Act provides for voting by mail for the 2020 primary and general elections and special elections held under the provisions of Chapter 73 of Title 15 due to the emergency caused by COVID-19, a highly contagious virus. Voting by mail is an alterna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SR44 | Engross | This Senate Resolution pays tribute to Delaware's senior senator, Harris B. McDowell, III, upon his retirement from the Senate after some 44 years of exemplary service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SR32 | Engross | This Senate Resolution pays tribute and extends a fond farewell to Secretary of the Senate Joy C. Bower upon her retirement after 32 years of distinguished service to the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB169 | Enroll | This Act adopts the Uniform Civil Remedies for Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act. This Act addresses an increasingly common form of abuse that can cause severe and often irreversible harm: the disclosure of private, sexually explicit ima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB194 | Enroll | 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] | 2020-06-29
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB191 | Enroll | Since the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, with Delaware ratifying it in 1901, at least 15 states have added a provision to their state constitution that prohibits the denial or abridgement of equal rights...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB239 | Enroll | This bill extends the effective date of the Delaware Contractor Registration Act to July 1, 2021, or upon promulgation of final regulations. The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic facing Delaware and the nation necessitates moving the impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB245 | Enroll | This Act amends the Real Estate Code to modernize the definition of purchase money mortgage under Delaware law to include lenders other than the seller of the mortgaged property who provide financing to purchase the property. Additionally, this Act e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB246 | Enroll | Presently, a legal process does not exist for a Delaware hospital to seek the appointment of a guardian for a non-acute patient who has been a patient at the hospital for an extended period, after having been abandoned by family. This bill authorizes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | HB350 | Enroll | This Act creates the crime of Aggravated Strangulation. A person is guilty of Aggravated Strangulation if the person is a law-enforcement officer, and while acting within the persons official capacity as a law-enforcement officer, knowingly or intent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| DE | HB237 | Enroll | This Act eliminates the requirement that movie theaters selling alcohol have video cameras in each auditorium and the requirement that an employee must pass through each auditorium during a movie showing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB301 | Pass | This Act repeals a provision in the State Employees Pension Plan that included participants in the Division for the Visually Impaireds (DVI) Business Enterprise Program (BEP) in the State pension plan. BEP participants are meant to be independent bli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB335 | Enroll | This Act amends Delawares probate code by adding a new section to provide restricted access to a decedents safe deposit box located in a financial institution and held in the decedents sole name, for the limited purpose of retrieving the decedents la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB334 | Enroll | Section 1 of the Act addresses statutes under Chapter 33 of Title 12 and (i) amends section 3330 by adding subsections (c) and (d)to make explicit in subsection (a) of section 3330 the applicability dates that were intended to be carried over from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB337 | Intro | This Act mandates that the Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to establish Maximum Contaminant Levels for specific contaminants found in drinking water in this st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-16
Amendment HA 1 to HB 337 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB233 | Intro | This Bill institutes a State nontidal wetlands program and leaves intact the current State tidal wetlands program under Chapter 66 of Title 7. Prior to these amendments, the only regulatory protection of the State's nontidal wetlands was through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Amendment SA 1 to SB 233 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB217 | Intro | This Act limits the use of certain Class B firefighting foams (Class B foams) in Delaware. Class B foams are used to put out fires caused by flammable liquids like gasoline, oil, and jet fuel, and can be divided into 2 categories: those with PFAS che...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | SB230 | Intro | This Act amends the Delaware Energy Act to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in the State by creating more accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Specifically, this Act permits State Agencies to charge a reasonable fee for use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | SB231 | Intro | This Act creates a special license plate for those citizens who wish to support pollinator habitat creation and conservation. This Act requires a greater-than-majority vote for passage because Article VIII, § 11 of the Delaware Constitution requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| DE | HCR82 | Intro | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the class of 2020s challenge faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-22
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB202 | Pass | This bill creates a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to utilize external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that illegally pass school buses and to punish these motorists by issuing them a civil penalty. The purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB96 | Pass | 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] | 2020-04-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR81 | Intro | This Concurrent Resolutions authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to expand regional rail connections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-03
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| DE | HB238 | Intro | This Act permits a school district to conduct on the last day of January an optional unit count of pupils who enrolled after the actual unit count was conducted and certified by the Department of Education. A school district will qualify for one-half...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB184 | Engross | This Act clarifies Delawares driving under the influence (DUI) law related to intensive inpatient or outpatient drug and alcohol treatment for felony DUI offenders. The current law has resulted in differing interpretations regarding treatment; specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Amendment HA 1 to SB 184 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB317 | Intro | This Act classifies pesticides containing a neonicotinoid as a restricted use pesticide and prohibits the use of a pesticide containing a neonicotinoid on land owned or maintained by the State. Neonicotinoids have been linked to impaired memory, move...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| DE | HJR11 | Intro | This Joint Resolution directs the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to report to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Controller General, Governor, and Director of the Office of Management and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| DE | HB319 | Intro | A placard must be prominently displayed at all entrances of massage and bodywork establishments that have failed to obtain a valid license or have a license that is suspended, revoked, or expired. This bill provides that no placard can be removed unl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| DE | HB283 | Intro | Current Delaware regulations provide that transportation benefits must be provided for students in grades K through 6 who live 1 or more miles from the schools to which district administrators would normally assign them. In grades 7 through 12, the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Amendment HA 2 to HB 283 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SB207 | Engross | This Act prohibits the import, export, sale, transport, distribution, or propagation of any plant identified by the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, with the advice of the Delaware Native Species Commission, as an invasive plant. This Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| DE | HB302 | Intro | In 2009, New Hampshire was the first state to develop a statewide Gun Shop Project, reaching out to gun shops regarding the role they can play in suicide prevention. In the years since, at least 21 other states have implemented similar campaigns. Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Health & Human Development Committee |
| DE | HB307 | Intro | This bill amends Chapter 33, Title 18 of the Delaware Code by adding a new § 3370D to require coverage of an annual behavioral health well check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB298 | Intro | This Act revises the appointment process for members of the Common Interest Community Advisory Council who are from the Real Property Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. Under this Act, these members are appointed by a government official ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Sunset Committee (Policy Analysis & Government Accountability) |
| DE | HB306 | Intro | This Act establishes a Behavioral Health Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work behavioral health professionals, such as, school counselors, social w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB312 | Intro | This legislation closes several loopholes that dealers have been using to get around suspended or revoked dealership licenses. Currently the Division of Motor Vehicles will suspend or revoke a dealer license, and the dealer will get a family member o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
| DE | HB311 | Intro | This bill extends the amount of years an identification card is valid from four (4) to eight (8) years. This bill is necessary for the Division of Motor Vehicles to maintain consistent business processes. The driver license is currently valid for eig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Transportation/Land Use and Infrastructure Committee |
