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Current trends in Delaware legislation over the last 72 hours as measured by public interest and activity.
| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | SB76 | Passed | This Act replaces the phrase "United States Armed Forces or of the National Guard" with "uniformed services of the United States," and defines "uniformed services of the United States" as meaning any of the 8 of the Unit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24 Signed by Governor |
| #2 | HB1 | Enrolled | This Act establishes a new state-level Department of Veterans Affairs led by a cabinet-level Secretary to advocate for and administer programs relating to veterans in the State of Delaware. It is the intent of this legislation that current staff of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #3 | HB29 | Enrolled | Each year, the Department of Education (Department) publishes data regarding all Delaware public schools, currently known as School Performance Data Reports (reports). These reports are available on the Departments website as the Delaware Report Card... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #4 | SB160 | Enrolled | This Act requires the Department of Health and Social Services, in consultation with the Department of Education, to post existing materials on type 1 diabetes to their website. Each local education agency shall make the informational materials avail... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| #5 | SB201 | Introduced | Section 1 of the Act exempts an individual not engaged in the business of wholesaling real estate from needing to be a real estate licensee. The business of wholesaling is when someone enters into an Agreement of Sale as a buyer, then markets the pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 |
| #6 | HB205 | Enrolled | The purpose of this Act is to protect medical providers in the State from out-of-state lawsuits and investigations that threaten the practice of medicine in the State. To that end this Act does the following: [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 6 NO |
| #7 | HB187 | Enrolled | Like House Bill 187, this substitute permits wine producers holding a valid license within this State or another state to obtain a license and ship wine directly to Delaware consumers, so long as it is done through a common carrier permit. This subst... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #8 | SB153 | Passed | This Act updates the membership and functions of the Interagency Resource Management Committee by adding the Lieutenant Governor as Chairperson, the Chair of the Early Childhood Council (ECC) as a voting member, and members of the General Assembly as... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Signed by Governor |
| #9 | HJR3 | Passed | Grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) offer efficient tools to increase power grid capacity without the need for new transmission lines. Studies demonstrate that these innovations can double renewable energy integration, create hundreds of thousands of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #10 | HB147 | Enrolled | Delaware currently permits the nonprobate transfer of bank accounts, investments, and vehicles. This Act provides a mechanism for the nonprobate transfer of real estate without requiring the creation of a revocable trust. This is done by permitting a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #11 | SB187 | Passed | The Department of Education (Department) currently administers the High Needs Educator Student Loan Repayment Program, the Speech-Language Pathologist Student Loan Repayment Program, and the Mental Health Services Student Loan Repayment Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Signed by Governor |
| #12 | SB81 | Enrolled | This Act removes the time restriction that only allowed for certain teachers or specialists who were hired after August 9, 2023, to obtain additional experience credit for purposes of salary computation. This Act would allow for teachers or specialis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| #13 | HB91 | Enrolled | This Substitute to HB 91 differs from HB 91 in that it further expands free breakfasts in schools participating in the federal School Breakfast Program by making them available to all students, regardless of household income, but does not expand free... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 16 YES 5 NO |
| #14 | SB72 | Enrolled | This Act requires the Division of Public Health (Division) to create a website where Delaware residents can find out the level of PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, in their public drinking water systems. This Act also requires the Division to no... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| #15 | SJR7 | Enrolled | This is a Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution No. 7. Like Senate Joint Resolution No. 7, this Substitute directs the State Employees Benefits Committee (SEBC) to utilize specific strategies and policies when interacting and contracting with Pharma... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #16 | HB86 | Engrossed | This Act establishes a uniform threshold and procedure for a recount after a primary or general election for a statewide office, State Senator, State Representative, county office, the City of Wilmington, or school district elections. Under this Act,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 |
| #17 | HB182 | Passed | This Act prohibits law-enforcement agencies from entering into agreements with federal immigration enforcement authorities to enforce immigration violations or share immigration enforcement related data. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-14 Signed by Governor |
| #18 | SB61 | Passed | This bill requires disclosure of votes cast at meetings of, or matters before, the PJM Interconnection Regional Transmission Organization. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #19 | HB189 | Passed | This Act designates the Red Knot as the State migratory bird. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #20 | HB3 | Enrolled | This Act creates a breastfeeding and lactation program within the DOC to provide lactation support to women in DOC custody. Among other things, it permits women to collect breast milk for later retrieval and delivery to an infant or toddler by an app... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-25 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #21 | HB15 | Enrolled | Like House Bill No. 15, this Act permits early childhood educators in the public schools to use and encourage play-based learning in their classrooms and in their curriculum. This Act permits local education agencies to provide early childhood profes... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #22 | SB90 | Enrolled | The Delaware State Inspire Scholarship Program (Inspire scholarship) pays undergraduate tuition for 8 semesters at Delaware State University (DSU). Some students complete their undergraduate degrees in less than 8 semesters because they take heavier ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| #23 | SB24 | Enrolled | The language of this Act is identical to Senate Bill No. 25 of the 153rd General Assembly. The only difference between this Act and Senate Bill No. 25 is the title, which has been changed to clarify that the language includes the Public Employment Re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 12 NO 2 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #24 | SJR8 | Enrolled | This Joint Resolution directs the Delaware State Housing Authority to create a pilot program for the purpose of providing technical assistance related to zoning ordinance reform to local governments in Delaware. The goal of this pilot program is to h... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| #25 | SJR11 | Enrolled | This Senate Joint Resolution establishes the Juvenile Justice Educational Transitions Task Force to propose a plan to ensure more successful transitions of youth from Delawares secured post-adjudicatory residential placement back into middle school o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| #26 | SB60 | Passed | This Act requires the Delaware Public Service Commission to ensure that all regulated utilities do not use customer funds to subsidize unregulated activities for example, lobbying activities, political contributions, charitable contributions, and cer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #27 | HB153 | Passed | This Act prohibits arrest or detention by any person who does not have explicit statutory authority to carry out an arrest or detention. The intent of this provision is to eliminate any doubt that a citizens arrest is not permitted in Delaware. Peace... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-14 Signed by Governor |
| #28 | SB4 | Enrolled | This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of the Inspector General. Under this Act, the OIG would be unique in state government as a non-political agency with a sole mission to investig... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 30 YES 1 NO 9 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #29 | HB152 | Passed | This Act expands the criminal offense of impersonating a police officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, or fire officer to also prohibit impersonation of a federal officer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-14 Signed by Governor |
| #30 | SB150 | Enrolled | This Act creates the Affordable Rental Housing Program (ARHP) within the Housing Development Fund. The ARHP is modeled on the federal Section 515 program and provides loans to increase the supply of affordable housing for families with very low-, low... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #31 | SB115 | Enrolled | This Act provides a pathway for former defendants in eviction actions to have the eviction filings against them shielded from public view. Being the subject of an eviction filing can prevent an individual from securing housing for years after any jud... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 27 YES 12 NO 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #32 | SB159 | Passed | This Act requires the permitting of an electric substation as an allowed conditional use in a heavy industrial zone under certain conditions set forth in the Act, including that the electrical substation is being constructed to support the operation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Signed by Governor |
| #33 | SB59 | Passed | Public utilities are regulated monopolies. Practically speaking, a public utility has no competition in its service territory and, therefore, does not face the economic risks that a for-profit, non-utility company must face. By law, a public utility ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #34 | SB32 | Enrolled | This Act allows for correctional officers and probation and parole officers employed with the Department of Correction to make a written request that their personal information not be published and remain confidential. The Act takes effect 180 days a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #35 | SB7 | Passed | This Act is based on Senate Substitute No. 3 for Senate Bill No. 4 of the 152nd General Assembly, which modernizes Delawares probation system, including by directing the courts, the Board of Parole, and the Bureau of Community Corrections to use the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Signed by Governor |
| #36 | SJR3 | Passed | Energy Storage Systems provide benefits to the electric grid, including grid stabilization, managing peak energy demand, and providing backup power during outages. Energy Storage Systems can provide substantial cost savings to residential, commercial... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #37 | SB180 | Passed | The Board of Pharmacy (Board) has worked for several years to amend Chapter 25, Title 24 of the Delaware Code to update the statute governing pharmacy licensure and practice in this State. The result of these efforts is this Act, which modernizes Cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Signed by Governor |
| #38 | HB210 | Passed | This Act seeks to update the fine structure for major commercial polluters. In addition, this Act increases the amount of penalty funds directed to communities near facilities with violations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #39 | SCR111 | Enrolled | This Concurrent Resolution establishes the Automobile Insurance Reform Task Force (Task Force). The General Assembly is creating the Task Force to address rising costs relating to automobile insurance both in private passenger and commercial markets.... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
| #40 | HB111 | Introduced | This Substitute to House Bill No. 111 prohibits food establishments from providing any single-use food service items unless requested by a customer, requires food establishments to provide options to allow the customer to request such items, prohibit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 was introduced and adopted in lieu of HB 111 |
| #41 | HB64 | Enrolled | This Act requires that school board meetings have a means for the public to view and provide comment remotely. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #42 | SB148 | Passed | This Act designates the Blue Dasher as the official dragonfly for the State of Delaware. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-16 Signed by Governor |
| #43 | SB10 | Passed | Currently, the Department of Correction (Department) biennially reviews individuals sentenced to more than 1 year of incarceration to determine if there is good cause to recommend a sentence modification to the Board of Parole for an individual who i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-14 Signed by Governor |
| #44 | HB208 | Passed | This Act amends Title 29 of the Delaware Code to eliminate the use of checks for vendor payments for goods or services provided to state departments, commissions, or boards. It mandates payments be made exclusively via ACH Payment, SUA Payment, or PC... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-14 Signed by Governor |
| #45 | HB35 | Enrolled | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO |
| #46 | HB26 | Enrolled | This Act makes it unlawful to possess, operate any motor vehicle with, purchase, install, manufacture, sell, offer to sell, or otherwise distribute a number plate flipping device. A number plate flipping device means a manual, electric, or mechanical... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #47 | SB28 | Enrolled | Section 1 of this Act requires that $7,000 be paid for the funeral expenses of a deceased member of a volunteer fire company, volunteer fire company ladies auxiliary, or volunteer ambulance and rescue. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #48 | SB11 | Enrolled | This Act is the second leg of a constitutional amendment to modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to enumerate certain felony offenses for which, or circumstances under which, pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 5 NO 2 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 1 VACANT |
| #49 | HJR2 | Enrolled | This House Joint Resolution directs the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) to explore participating in the federal Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). The RMP is an option that states may incorporate into their Supplemental Nutrition Assista... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #50 | SB62 | Enrolled | Like Senate Bill No. 62, Senate Substitute No. 1 for SB 62 clarifies that state agencies, including public schools, may enter into agreements to trade in or sell materiel other than vehicles, including computer technology, by making the following tec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 VACANT |
