| DE | SB237 | Pass | This Act amends the provisions in Title 9 of the Delaware Code relating to the county comprehensive plans for Sussex, Kent, and New Castle Counties, and Title 22 of the Delaware Code relating to municipal comprehensive plans for municipalities with p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-05
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB265 | Pass | The Delaware Energy Solutions Act of 2024 authorizes processes necessary to help meet the net zero goals of the Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023. The bill facilitates a transition to carbon-free energy sources by (i) preparing for offshore wind t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-09-05
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB198 | Pass | This Act revises existing animal cruelty laws to include people who knowingly possess, own, buy, sell, transfer, or manufacture animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to engage in or otherwise promote or facilitate such fighting as guilty of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB188 | Pass | This Act enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact (ITMC). The Council of State Governments partnered with the Department of Defense and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB232 | Pass | In light of the Federal Drug Administrations recent approval of over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills, this bill expands the contraceptive coverage laws to include over-the-counter non-emergency contraceptive pills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB268 | Pass | Sections 1 and 2 of this Act update Chapter 8 of Title 12, the Uniform TOD Security Registration Act. Section 1 of this Act does the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR8 | Pass | This Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2024, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware and requires that in observance, the State flag be flown at half-staff at State facilities. By recognizing International Ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB254 | Pass | This Act creates the Delaware Grocery Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-29
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB187 | Pass | This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Onc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB284 | Pass | This Act discharges balances owed by individuals ordered to pay a probation supervision fee under § 6504(14) of Title 11 of the Delaware Code or a Public Defender fee under § 4607 of Title 29 of the Delaware Code. The probation supervision fee and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB283 | Pass | This Act repeals the DELJIS Fund fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of this fee was recommended by the Criminal Legal System Imposed Debt Study Group created by House Bill 244, as amended by House Amendment No 2, of the 151st General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB282 | Pass | This Act repeals the Senior Trust Fund Fee, the Interstate Compact Fee, and the Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Treatment, Education and Prevention Fund Fee imposed on criminal defendants. The elimination of these fees was recommended by the Crimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB22 | Pass | This Act establishes the Delaware Workforce Housing Program" (DWHP). Modeled after the Downtown Development District Program, the DWHP allows a qualified workforce housing investor to be reimbursed through a grant up to 20 percent of the capital...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB244 | Pass | This Act allows a county that imposes a lodging tax to spend money from that tax on workforce and affordable housing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB247 | Pass | This Act creates a clearer and workable system for ensuring that manufactured home communities with health and safety violations and conditions that threaten the health and safety of people in the community cannot continue to raise rents on residents...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB245 | Pass | The Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Financial Education and the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program were created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure or already navigating the forecl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB231 | Pass | This Act removes the sunset provision in Chapter 453, Volume 83 of the Laws of Delaware relating to the program established under §9011A of Title 29 to assist individuals who are in or have experienced foster care in Delaware with driver education, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB238 | Pass | This Act adds "victim of kidnapping" to the definition section of the Address Confidentiality Act, allowing for kidnapping victims to become eligible for the protections offered by the Address Confidentiality Program. This amendment is reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB260 | Pass | This Act is a result of the work of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association ("DIAA") Task Force. The current process for promulgating DIAA-related regulations grants the regulatory authority to the Department of Education ("D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-02
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB150 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 150. Like Senate Bill No. 150, this Act requires included facilities have sufficient staff to meet the needs of each resident and requires dementia care services training for staff. This Act differs from S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB151 | Pass | This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 151. Like Senate Bill No. 151, this Act requires included facilities to disclose information related dementia care services in the form determined by the Department of Health and Social Services, and it es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB215 | Pass | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services to inspect long-term care facilities on an annual basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB216 | Pass | This Act increases the civil penalties for violations of the statutes in Title 16, Chapter 11 related to Long Term Care Facilities and the regulations adopted pursuant to it. For violations that the Department determines pose a serious threat to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB236 | Pass | This bill: (a) extends the expiration date for any new issuance or renewal of an ADA placard from 3 years to 8 years for a specific person with a diagnosis of a permanent disability and changing the minimum age from 85 to 80 years or older, (b) exten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB234 | Pass | This bill will extend the timeframe for a customer to apply for a document fee credit refund from 15 days to 30 days. This change will improve customer service by allowing a customer more time to submit the applicable paperwork.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR4 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Joint Resolution directs the Division of Motor Vehicles to opt into the FMCSAs federal exemption that allows for first time CDL applicants seeking a school bus only endorsement on their drivers license. An applicants school bus only endorsement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB235 | Pass | This Act brings the State in compliance with the federal regulation published by FMCSA on October 7, 2021, to establish a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse as mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). This act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR6 | Enroll
Sine Die | This resolution directs health care professional licensure boards to review their existing professional licensure application language to revise or remove all intrusive and stigmatizing language around mental health care and treatment and replace it ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB13 | Enroll
Sine Die | Healthcare facility assessments are currently the second largest source of funding for states shares of Medicaid costs, behind general funds. Today, 49 states have at least one facility assessment in place, including Delaware, while 34 states and Was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB295 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act strengthens the current practice of obtaining service letters for employment in child care facilities to protect children from workers who have engaged in prior acts that are prohibited by the Office of Child Care Licensing. The Act does all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB289 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act amends Title 16, Chapter 76 of the Delaware Code relating to energy conservation identified in county and municipal building and plumbing codes. Consistent with codes in other States, including New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, among o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB12 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act amends Delawares laws regarding release of persons accused of crimes (Chapter 21 of Title 11 of the Delaware Code) as required in conjunction with the enactment of an amendment to § 12 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution permitting pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 7 NO 2 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB11 | Enroll
Sine Die | This is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 11. Like Senate Bill No. 11, this Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to enumerate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 8 NO 1 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB169 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act creates the Delaware Wrongful Conviction Compensation and Service Act. The Act provides compensation and reintegration services to individuals who have served sentences of incarceration, wrongful incarceration in a psychiatric institution, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB318 | Enroll
Sine Die | This bill enables the Delaware Nutrient Management Commission to regulate the application of nutrients to turf by commercial nutrient handlers. The law excludes athletic fields, golf courses, and land used in the production for sale of sod or seed an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB314 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act removes supervision from the scope of practice of a masters social worker. This Act also prohibits a masters social worker from providing supervision to a licensed clinical social worker applicant. The Board of Social Work Examiners (Board) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB326 | Pass | This Act appropriates $168,362,517 to provide one-time funded projects through the Office of Management and Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB325 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR9 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR10 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB329 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act defines United States military pension for the exclusion for taxable income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| DE | SB327 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid recipients for Fiscal Year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | This Senate Joint Resolution directs the Office of Child Care Licensing to adopt an electronic record and filing system that will modernize the States child care system. The OCCL must provide a report regarding the adoption of an electronic record an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Reported Out of Committee (Finance) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR204 | Engross
Sine Die | This Resolution designates July 26, 2024, as Americans with Disabilities Act Day in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR203 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes and affirms the importance of awareness and action on the need for universally accessible housing in Delaware through pending legislation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR194 | Engross
Sine Die | This Senate Concurrent Resolution designates October 12, 2024, at "National Farmer's Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR202 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution congratulates the winning teams from the 2024 Delaware High School Mock Trial Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27
Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB197 | Enroll
Sine Die | This Act revises State procurement rules to require that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in the development of new landscaped a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB203 | Enroll
Sine Die | Senate Bill 67, from the first session of the 152nd General Assembly, updated the crime of official misconduct. Senate Bill 67 intended to change the penalty for official misconduct from a class A misdemeanor to a graded system, where the penalty is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| DE | SB251 | Enroll
Sine Die | The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Institute of Veterinary Medical Education (DIVME) was established in 1975 with a stated purpose of creating opportunities for Delaware residents to obtain veterinary training and strengthening factors that would ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
