| DE | HB126 | Pass | This Act clarifies to whom the annual report must be sent and the date that the report must be submitted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB12 | Pass | This Act creates an Electric Vehicle Rebate Program to incentivize the purchase and lease of new and used electric vehicles by Delaware residents. All-electric vehicles shall receive a rebate of no more than $2,500 and hybrid vehicles shall receive a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB99 | Pass | This Act, known as the Delaware Climate Change Solutions Act of 2023, follows the issuance of Delawares Climate Action Plan in 2021, and establishes a statutory target of greenhouse gas emissions reductions over the medium and long term to mitigate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-03
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB114 | Pass | Substance use disorder constitutes a severe threat to the health and welfare of the citizens of Delaware. Recovery residences address the needs of individuals in recovery from substance use disorder by providing a safe and healthy living environment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB60 | Pass | To prevent Delawareans from facing exorbitant costs for potentially life-saving screenings and follow-up tests, and to allow providers to use clinical judgement in the use of breast cancer examination tools based on established national standards, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB184 | Pass | Delaware law expressly prohibits employment discrimination based upon surviving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Such discrimination includes: (1) failing or refusing to hire or discharging an employee because the individual was a vict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB117 | Pass | This bill makes changes to the qualifications for professional land surveyors. This bill also makes clear that there is no civil or criminal trespass when a professional land surveyor enters upon land in the course of preparing a survey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB26 | Pass | This Act provides state employees 30, rather than 15, days of paid leave per year to attend training camp or serve special duty as ordered by the military reserves or Delaware National Guard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB155 | Enroll
75% | This bill makes the unsafe storage of a firearm in a vehicle a class A misdemeanor if the person knowingly leaves a firearm unattended in a vehicle and the firearm is not stored in a locked box or container, a firearms rack that is on the motor vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| DE | HB215 | Fail | 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] | 2023-06-30
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 3 NO 18 NOT VOTING |
| DE | HB65 | Pass | According to the Mayo Clinic, miscarriages occur in about 20% of all pregnancies, and generally, in the first 12 weeks. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 out of every 100 American pregnancies ends in stillbirth. Black women have a signi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB94 | Pass | The expectation for speed enforcement, under Delaware's Motor Vehicle statute, are Delaware's law enforcement agencies. It is not always possible for law enforcement officers to effectively enforce the speed limitations due to a number of fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB191 | Engross
50% | This substitute bill provides more clarity on the process by which a tenant may file an action in the Justice of the Peace Court to withhold rent payments in escrow. Specifically, the bill provides what the tenant must file in order to bring such act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-29
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | HB212 | Engross
50% | House Substitute No. 2 to House Bill 212 prohibits manufactured home community owners from increasing rent if the rent was increased by 5 percent or more the previous year or rental period, instead permitting an increase capped at 3 percent. This Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To Senate Housing & Land Use Committee |
| DE | HB119 | Engross
50% | Delaware is one of five states that does not have an open container law, which is in direct violation of federal regulations. This Bill bans open containers of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles and provides a civil penalty for an offense. A viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-28
To Senate Corrections & Public Safety Committee |
| DE | HB246 | Intro
25% | Currently each county has its own riparian buffer requirements. The intent of this Act is to make minimum riparian buffer areas uniform throughout the State in unincorporated areas and incorporated municipalities that do not hold a Municipal Separate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
To House Housing Committee |
| DE | HB89 | Engross
50% | Section 1 of this Act increases the standard deduction for personal income tax purposes of resident individuals and spouses of this State for tax years beginning after December 31, 2023. Section 3 of this Act increases the monetary filing thresholds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
Amendment SA 2 to HB 89 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB104 | Pass | The states pre-application process for land use process, known as PLUS, was created 20 years ago and has served to increase coordination among state and local agencies. In doing so, it has fulfilled its intent of providing predictability and consiste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB102 | Pass | This Act expedites the issuance of a temporary entrance permit for commercial and economic development projects. The Act also makes technical changes to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB37 | Intro
25% | It is the policy of this State that meaningful sanctions be imposed upon those who allow dangerous conditions and defects to exist in leased premises and that an effective mechanism be established for repairing these conditions and halting their crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB220 | Intro
25% | This is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to conserve, protect and maintain Delaware's natural resources, including its water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate. This Amendment would create an inherent and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB153 | Engross
50% | This bill permits political committees to make donations to any religious, charitable, educations or scientific organization exempt from Delaware income tax under Delaware tax laws or to any volunteer fire company.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB175 | Intro
25% | This Act adds provisions to Title 21 defining accessible parking spaces, incorporating federal standards for accessible parking spaces found in the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable regulations. The Act also provides additional requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 11 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB8 | Intro
25% | This Act directs state agencies to collaborate on the development and implementation of clean construction preferences that will allow for the incorporation and consideration of sustainability and carbon impact data in the award of public works contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
Amendment HA 1 to HB 8 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB9 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that all passenger vehicles and light duty vehicles owned and operated by the State be zero emission vehicles by 2040 by requiring increasing volumes of zero emission vehicles every few years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
[Hearing: May 22 @ 12:00 pm]
Amendment HA 1 to HB 9 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB150 | Intro
25% | This bill is the Cover All Delaware Children Act. Many children who are undocumented do not have access to routine or preventative healthcare, including vaccinations and physicals, because they cannot afford the services. Instead they may rely upon e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB128 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the following new tax brackets for taxable years after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-17
Reported Out of Committee (Revenue & Finance) in House with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB133 | Intro
25% | First responders, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians, and public safety telecommunicators, are crucial to ensuring public safety and health. First responders are at elevated risk for suicide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
Amendment HA 1 to HB 133 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB143 | 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] | 2023-05-10
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB2 | Pass | The Delaware Marijuana Control Act regulates and taxes marijuana for recreational use in much the same manner as alcohol. It creates a framework for production, manufacture, and sale in a legal recreational marijuana industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB112 | Intro
25% | In 2022, the General Assembly passed HB 115, which prohibits the criminal prosecution of children under the age of 12, and limits delinquency proceedings for children under 12 to a small set of very serious crimes. This Act clarifies that children un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 1 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable |
| DE | HB100 | Pass | This substitute bill, which makes only technical changes to the original bill, creates a special license plate for the Delaware State Police which will be displayed on the active fleet at the discretion of the Superintendent of the State Police for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB6 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the State to fund a Mental Health Professional and Mental Health Coordinator position for each district and charter school by the 2024-25 school year. The Mental Health Professional and Mental Health Coordinator must develop partner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To House Education Committee |
| DE | HB79 | Intro
25% | In 2022, the General Assembly passed HB115, which prohibits the criminal prosecution of children under the age of 12 and limits proceeding against a minor as an adult to a narrow set of serious crimes alleged to have been committed by children 16 or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Stricken in House |
| DE | HB1 | Pass | This Act removes all penalties for use or possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana and marijuana accessories. It further specifies that the adult sharing of a personal use quantity or less of marijuana is legal activity for those 21 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-23
Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| DE | HB71 | Pass | This bill clarifies that the goal and function of the Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board includes Lyme Disease and other tick-related diseases. This Act supersedes the previous sunset provision that established the Board in House Bill 291 from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB101 | Intro
25% | This Act directs DelDOT and DNREC to develop a program to allow for the expedited review of entrance plans and stormwater and sediment plans associated with new development. Under this process a consultant pre-approved by DelDOT and/or DNREC would co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB103 | Intro
25% | Transportation infrastructure is critical to the safe and efficient movement of people as well as goods and services throughout the State. The Delaware Strategies and Spending identifies various investment levels to help prioritize State infrastructu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB36 | Intro
25% | This Act decreases by 1% the rate of the realty transfer tax to be received by the State, thereby returning it to the rate that was applicable prior to August 1,2017. The Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB76 | Intro
25% | Governor's Recommended One-Time Supplemental Bill
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB75 | Intro
25% | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB56 | Intro
25% | This Act makes a loan repayment under the Speech Language Pathologist Student Loan Repayment Program, the High Needs Educator Loan Payment Program, and the Mental Health Services Student Loan Repayment Program non-taxable for state income tax purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
Not Worked in Committee |
| DE | HB25 | Pass | This legislation establishes that a relief rebate issued under the 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program during the period that the federal major disaster declaration exists for the State of Delaware is intended to be a qualified disaster relief paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-19
Signed by Governor |
