| 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 | SB240 | Pass | This Bill is the Fiscal Year 2021 Appropriations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR3 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SJR2 | Pass | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB260 | Pass | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| 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 | 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 | SB241 | Intro | This Act provides supplementary appropriations to certain Grants-in-Aid for Fiscal Year 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
Defeated By Senate. Votes: 12 YES 9 NOT VOTING |
| DE | SB234 | Intro | Title 3 and Title 7 do not currently define the term farm and Title 3 does not currently define the term farm operations. This Act defines farm and farming operations for the purposes of Title 3 and Title 7. This Act amends the definition of farm ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-10
Introduced and Laid on Table in Senate |
| 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 | 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 | HCR83 | Intro | This Resolution proclaims June 25th, 2020 as Korean War Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-29
To House Veterans Affairs Committee |
| 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 | HB294 | Intro | Most commonly, persons accused of subsection (a) of this section panhandling are homeless. Transferring such matters to the Court of Common Pleas allows persons so accused increased access to social services not available to them at the Justice of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Amendment HA 1 to HB 294 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB299 | Intro | This act will be known as the Egregious Crimes Accountability Act. This Act revises Delaware's death penalty statute to ensure its compliance with the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United State Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB275 | Pass | This bill permits the owner of a beer garden or food establishment to permit leashed dogs on licensed outdoor patios of food establishments and in beer gardens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Signed by Governor |
| 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 | HB280 | Pass | This bill creates a special license plate for World War II veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB295 | Intro | This bill would allow a court of competent jurisdiction to dismiss minor equipment violations upon a showing that repair(s) have been made. The sections include inoperative horn, missing rear-view mirror, improper window tint, and inoperable headligh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee |
| 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 | SB126 | Engross | This Act expands eligibility for Line-of-Duty disability benefits to paid firefighters who work for municipal fire departments and to fire service instructors and fire marshals who work for the State and for nonphysical disabilities.
[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 | 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 | 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 | SB209 | Intro | This Act removes the exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court for offenses under § 4836 of this Title on the basis of the voluntary and involuntary exclusion lists. This would allow the Court of Common Pleas to hold jurisdiction over these offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Amendment SA 1 to SB 209 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| 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 | HB257 | Intro | This substitute act establishes a Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program for new primary care providers to be administered by the Delaware Health Care Commission. Under the loan repayment program, the Health Care Commission may award education l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HCR67 | Engross | This House Concurrent Resolution proclaims January 23, 2020, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB262 | Intro | This Act permits the Division of Motor Vehicles to assign special license plates for firefighters, auxiliary members, or volunteer ambulance members to vehicles owned by an artificial entity, including a corporation, company, association, firm, partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 9 Favorable |
| DE | HCR63 | Engross | This House Concurrent Resolution extends the date by which the report of the task force for the Recruitment and Retention of Volunteer Firefighters for the Delaware Volunteer Fire Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB203 | Intro | This Act makes children with disabilities who attend homeschools eligible to receive speech language pathology and audiology services in the same manner as students who attend private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | SB202 | Intro | This Act clarifies that a person with a special license plate or permit for persons with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to walk may park for an unlimited period where the length of time is otherwise limited and must be able to park in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| 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 | SB199 | Intro | Section 7052 of Title 25 provides that the completion and cost of any capital improvements or rehabilitation work, as distinguished from ordinary repair, replacement, and maintenance, may justify an increase in rent in a manufactured home community b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
To Senate Elections, Government & Community Affairs 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 | HB30 | Pass | Unmanned aircraft systems are capable of introducing contraband into detention facilities without undergoing correctional officer inspections. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to introduce contraband into dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-08
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 | SB44 | Pass | This Act makes the possession or consumption of alcohol by an individual under 21 years of age a civil offense. This Act also prohibits including information concerning a civil violation of the underage possession or consumption law on an individuals...
[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 |
| DE | SB137 | Pass | This Act creates the crimes of unlawful possession of a drug masking product, punishable as a class A misdemeanor, and unlawful distribution, delivery, or sale of a drug masking product, punishable as a class E felony. Drug masking products are desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB147 | Pass | This Act allows the Department of Safety and Homeland Security to share accident reports and the data in the reports with the Department of Transportation. This Act also allows the Department of Transportation to provide certain de-identified data fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB231 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Department of Agriculture to impose civil penalties consistent with the amounts imposed in other states when livestock have been found to have run at large on the public highways or on unenclosed land within the State. This Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB168 | Pass | This Act allows for the transfer of a particular parcel of land in Smyrna along Route 13. In the 147th General Assembly, the State was allowed to transfer this parcel of land, where a fire tower once stood, to the Town of Smyrna, but the land could o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB211 | Pass | The purpose of the Bill is to change the requirement in the seed law for germination testing from 14 months to 9 months prior to sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB146 | Pass | This Act authorizes the Department of Health and Social Services to transfer to the Town of Smyrna excess land around the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill, which borders on Lake Como, for $1.00. The land shall be used to expand the size of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB6 | Pass | This bill streamlines the process by which the Department may incorporate into its regulations tidal finfish management measures that have been adopted and specified in a regional or federal fisheries management plan or rule. This bill also eliminate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
