| DE | HB335 | Pass | 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] | 2020-08-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB350 | Pass | 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] | 2020-08-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB334 | Pass | 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] | 2020-08-06
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 | 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 | HB349 | Pass | This bill codifies portions of the Second and Nineteenth Modifications of the Governor's Declaration of State of Emergency due to COVID-19 concerning food and drink establishments. Food and drink establishments suffered great losses since March, ...
[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 | HB362 | Intro | This Bill adds God's Way Ministries Inc. to the list of not-for-profit organizations exempt from real property taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB361 | Intro | Time is money. The time and delay associated with the review of land use projects is often a factor in determining whether a potential employer will come to Delaware. This Act, the Bring New Jobs to Delaware Act, is intended to provide an expedited r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| 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 | 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 | HB229 | Enroll | This Act increases the non-refundable income tax credit from $400 to $500 for active members of Delaware volunteer fire, ambulance, or rescue service company or its auxiliary. This Act also makes technical changes to conform existing law to the stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB219 | Intro | This Act amends the Delaware Viatical Settlements Act by permanently removing the bond requirements for viatical settlement brokers and updating a reference to life settlement brokers by replacing it with viatical settlement brokers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| 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 | 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 | HB315 | Intro | This Act creates a tax credit applicable to personal income taxes in an amount equal to incurred motor vehicle document fees for certain lower income, working poor, individuals. This tax credit is designed to assist the working poor in obtaining a ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Revenue & Finance Committee |
| DE | SB215 | Intro | On November 3, 2015, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report titled "Elevated Rates of Urban Firearm Violence and Opportunities for Prevention Wilmington, Delaware" in which the CDC made 2 majo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Judicial Committee |
| DE | SB198 | Pass | This Act repeals the authority granted to Kent County Levy Court to impose a lodging tax to benefit the Kent County Regional Sports Complex Corporation, also known as DE Turf. This authority was granted by Chapter 102 of Volume 82 of the Laws of Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB280 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB79 | Engross | This Act clarifies existing law so that an individual is not disqualified from possessing or purchasing a firearm because the individual is a registered qualifying patient under the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Amendment HA 1 to SB 79 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB144 | Engross | House Bill 212 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] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Corrections & Public Safety) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB258 | Intro | This bill allows the Department of Correction to implement prison nurseries, which would allow women inmates that give birth during their time incarcerated the option of raising their infant up to the age of 18 months. Studies have shown that prison ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB265 | Intro | This Act fully exempts county property taxes and local school taxes for a disabled veteran with a 100% VA rated service-connected, permanent and total disability or for a disabled veteran who is receiving 100% disability compensation due to individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB284 | Intro | This legislation allows the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs to employ the spouses of veterans and retains the stipulation that the Executive Director of the Commission must be a veteran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Veterans Affairs) in House with 13 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB211 | Intro | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag is a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars 36. U.S.C. § 902.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB286 | Intro | This bill requires that inadvertent out-of-network services be included in individual and group health insurance policies as well as group and blank health insurance policies. This bill defines inadvertent out-of-network services are those services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB200 | Intro | 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] | 2020-01-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB278 | Intro | Section 1 of this bill clarifies that the reinstatement obligations of insurers under Section 3903(d) apply in instances of both nonrenewals and cancellations of policies due to nonpayment of premiums. Sections 2 through 4 of this bill revise the met...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 9 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB274 | Intro | This bill establishes the time frame within which a property insurer must give prior written notice to the insured of its intent to cancel a policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 13 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB276 | Intro | This bill adds a provision addressing the assignability of rights under property insurance policies and authorizes a property insurance carrier to limit a policys assignability only to those persons or entities that have the legal authority to repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 12 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB37 | Intro | This act restores the $500 senior real property tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-22
Amendment HA 1 to HB 37 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB282 | Intro | This bill is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment to require a 3/5 vote of each House of the General Assembly to enact a law that would enable a county to enact a tax or increase a tax rate above a rate currently authorized by state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB41 | Engross | 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] | 2020-01-15
Amendment SA 1 to HB 41 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB271 | Intro | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag, is "a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars" 36. U.S.C. 902. In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB270 | Intro | Stands operated by children that serve or sell lemonade or other nonalcoholic beverages on a temporary, occasional basis are a summertime tradition for many children. This Act exempts a stand operated by a child from State, county, and municipal regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-12
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB56 | Pass | This act names the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 301 between Route 1 and the Delaware Maryland State line as First Responders Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB113 | Pass | This bill clarifies that Delaware law enforcement may enter into agreements to provide mutual assistance to other jurisdictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-20
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB128 | Pass | This Act extends the time period for which a member of the Delaware National Guard may receive funding for certain postsecondary education tuition and fees from 10 years after the date on which the member begins the first course for which funds are g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB35 | Pass | This Act revises Delaware Insurance Code provisions related to the individual and group health insurance markets to directly incorporate into Delaware law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts consumer protections related to the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-06
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB95 | Pass | This Act expands the permitted uses of unclaimed electric cooperative capital credits to include investments in energy services for low income members and energy efficiency, renewable energy, battery storage, electrification and emerging energy techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB61 | Pass | State economic development officials pursue economic development opportunities that, if realized, would have significant impact on Delaware's future economic health and competitiveness. Such situations frequently require expeditious action and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB174 | Pass | This Act establishes standards for data security for Title 18 licensees and standards for the investigation of and notification to the Commissioner of a cybersecurity event affecting Title 18 licensees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB195 | Pass | The purpose of the Bill is to update the existing beekeeping code to better reflect current practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB186 | Intro | This Act clarifies that the immunity provided for furnishing information about suspected fraud applies even if no investigation, action, or penalty results from the information furnished.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Banking, Business & Insurance Committee |
| DE | HB74 | Pass | This bill enables a key component of the Take Care Delaware program, a partnership between law enforcement and schools to adopt a trauma-informed approach to children who have been identified at the scene of a traumatic event. The Take Care Delaware ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-26
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB143 | Pass | Section 1 of this Act clarifies the definition of the term policy for purposes of §§ 3903-3907 of Title 18 of the Delaware Code to apply only to personal automobile insurance policies and not commercial or other types of policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB163 | Pass | Individuals who volunteer their services through stand-alone EMS companies have been a valuable part of public safety to the citizens of the State of Delaware. To try to bolster the ranks of these volunteers, this bill exempts anyone applying for mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
