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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HB125 | Passed | This House Substitute bill eliminates any reference to § 4137 in Title 11 since it will remain as a separate section in the Delaware Code. This House Substitute requires all public schools to offer only students who qualify for a reduced-price meal,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-23 Signed by Governor |
| #2 | SB301 | Enrolled | Like Senate Bill No. 301, this Act, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 301 requires public universities in this state to provide access to medication for the termination of pregnancy and emergency contraception. The medication and contracept... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 24 YES 16 NO 1 ABSENT |
| #3 | SCR205 | Engrossed | This Senate Concurrent Resolution directs the Delaware Division of Public Health to develop and release a strategic plan to implement a public health outreach campaign to assess trends, possible messaging, cost of messaging and delivery to communitie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| #4 | HB357 | Enrolled | This Act is the product of the work of the Firearms Definition Task Force (Task Force), which was created by this General Assembly under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 102. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 NO |
| #5 | HB455 | Introduced | This Act creates a 10-year program to address the lack of affordable housing in Delaware by establishing statewide limitations on the amount that rent can be increased as follows: [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 |
| #6 | SB313 | Passed | Section 1. Section 1 of this Act amends § 122. New § 122(18) sets forth certain types of provisions that may be included in contracts between a corporation and its current or prospective stockholders or beneficial owners of its stock, even if those... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17 Signed by Governor |
| #7 | HB281 | Passed | This Act repeals the option of providing health care insurance to state pensioners under Medicare part C, known as a Medicare Advantage Plan. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Enact w/o Sign by Governor |
| #8 | HCR158 | Engrossed | This concurrent resolution designates October of each year as Dyslexia Awareness Month in Delaware. According to the United States National Institute of Health, dyslexia is a learning disability that can hinder a persons ability to read, write, spell... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #9 | SB309 | Enrolled | This Act adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 2023 (UHCDA 2023) to supersede the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act of 1993, which Delaware enacted in 1996. The UHCDA 2023 was authored by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) and was developed i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO |
| #10 | SB233 | Enrolled | This Act establishes employment protections for certain service employees during changes of ownership by requiring all of the following: [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 25 YES 13 NO 3 ABSENT |
| #11 | HB417 | Engrossed | Survivors of child sexual abuse that occurred in this State who have been barred from filing suit against their abusers by virtue of the expiration of the former civil statute of limitations, shall be permitted to file those claims in the Superior Co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Laid On Table in Senate |
| #12 | HB87 | Passed | This Act establishes the Delaware Agricultural Production Assistance Program. The Program will provide a subsidy of up to 30% of the premium for eligible producers multi-peril crop insurance premium, or whole farm revenue protection premium up to a m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-25 Signed by Governor |
| #13 | HB392 | Passed | The United States Department of Agriculture runs a voluntary program that provides risk management coverage to dairy producers that pays out based on the difference between the national price of milk and the average cost of feed. This Act enables the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-25 Signed by Governor |
| #14 | SB305 | Enrolled | This Act streamlines and modernizes the State Early Childhood Education Program in § 3001 of Title 14, also referred to as State-funded early care and education, as follows: [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 34 YES 3 NO 4 ABSENT |
| #15 | SB296 | Enrolled | This Act amends the Delaware Antitrust Act (DAA) (Chapter 21, Title 6 of the Code) to provide indirect purchasers who have been harmed by violations of the Delaware Antitrust Act the ability to sue for damages. Indirect purchasers of a product or ser... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #16 | HB333 | Passed | This Act creates the Delaware Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Commission. This Commission shall be tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly and Department of Technology and Information on AI utilization and safety within th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-17 Signed by Governor |
| #17 | HB268 | Enrolled | House Bill No. 303, with House Amendment No. 2, from the 151st General Assembly created an annual behavioral health well check and required carriers to provide coverage for this service. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #18 | SB246 | Enrolled | For over 30 years, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) has invested in home repair programs that make necessary repairs to improve the health and safety conditions in the homes of Delawareans. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #19 | HB372 | Engrossed | This Substitute bill clarifies that the definition of day does not include Saturday, Sunday, any federal holiday, or any State legal holiday when the specified number of days is 12 or less. When the specified number of days is more than 12 days, day ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| #20 | HR31 | Introduced | This House Resolution requests that the Department of Education does all of the following to expand and support equity and inclusion in financial literacy for all students in the State of Delaware: [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| #21 | SB169 | Enrolled | 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 |
| #22 | SB252 | Passed | Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 252 is identical to Senate Bill No. 252 except that SS 1 for SB 252 corrects a spelling error in the synopsis to avoid confusion. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Signed by Governor |
| #23 | HB383 | Enrolled | This substitute for House Bill 383 does the following: [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| #24 | HB293 | Enrolled | Federal and Delaware law protect the right to vote and the rights of individuals with disabilities to have equal access to voting places and public facilities. Nonetheless, recent information suggests that a substantial number of polling places in De... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #25 | HB70 | Enrolled | This Act eliminates the death penalty in Delaware. As such, the penalty for a person who is convicted of first-degree murder for an offense that was committed after the persons 18th birthday is imprisonment for the remainder of the persons natural li... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 14 YES 7 NO |
| #26 | HB354 | Enrolled | This Act gives the dependent children of active military members, full-time Delaware National Guard members, and active duty members of a reserve component of the US military priority in choice and charter enrollment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| #27 | SB82 | Enrolled | This Act is a Substitute for Senate Bill No. 82. Both this Act and SB 82 require State programs to provide annual reports to the General Assembly about compliance with federal and State law and regulation that require meaningful access to services fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| #28 | HB191 | Enrolled | 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] | 2024-06-30 Laid On Table in House |
| #29 | HB310 | Enrolled | The United States Space Force was established on December 20, 2019 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The Space Force became the 6th branch of the United States Armed Forces. This Act inserts the Space Force in those sections of the D... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #30 | HB14 | Enrolled | This Act creates a new license for the use of trotlines in commercial crabbing. This Act prohibits a person from possessing a commercial crab pot license and trotline license at the same time. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #31 | HB318 | Enrolled | This Act increases the exemption in bankruptcy and other debt proceedings for a debtors personal residence from $125,000 to $200,000. The exemption has been limited to $125,000 since 2012 while home prices have increased dramatically in the interveni... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| #32 | HB301 | Failed | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Defeated By House. Votes: 24 YES 15 NO 2 NOT VOTING |
| #33 | HB298 | Enrolled | This Act is a result of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committees (JLOSC) review of Adult Protective Services. This Act creates the Vulnerable Adult Populations Commission (Commission), whose purpose is to improve the response to and redu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #34 | HB312 | Enrolled | School board members are currently required to engage both in financial responsibility training and a training to understand educational and legal issues about due process and special education. This Act will require that a school board president inf... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #35 | HB309 | Passed | This Act updates the definition of child care facility to reflect the move of the Office of Child Care Licensing from the Department of Services for Children, Youth & Their Families to the Department of Education. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Signed by Governor |
| #36 | HB332 | Enrolled | This Act codifies the teacher academy pathways program that prepares students for careers in elementary and secondary education. Among other things, it requires the DOE to update and revise statewide standards and guidelines for teacher academies and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #37 | SB256 | Enrolled | This Act clarifies the Attorney Generals existing authority to enforce the States consumer protection laws, specifically the Attorney Generals ability to pursue non-penalty civil remedies, such as damages and restitution, without having to show that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT |
| #38 | HB363 | Enrolled | This Act requires a landlord who provides a dwelling place to a person as part of their employment compensation to provide them with a disclosure form advising them of the conditions and requirements for occupancy and vacancy of the premises once the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 15 YES 5 NO 1 NOT VOTING |
| #39 | SB283 | Enrolled | 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] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| #40 | SB298 | Enrolled | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Newport in the following ways: [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES |
| #41 | SB300 | Enrolled | This Act requires crisis pregnancy centers in this state to provide notice if the center is not licensed by this state as a medical facility and does not have a licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises, in person, the provision o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 15 NO 3 ABSENT |
| #42 | HB396 | Enrolled | This Bill amends the Charter of the Town of Delmar in multiple respects. In Section 7 of the Charter, which involves Nominations and Elections, every person over the age of 18 years who has resided in the town for 30 days prior to the election will b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #43 | HB398 | Enrolled | This Act amends the City of Seaford Charter to remove the section regarding Fire Department Appropriations, specifically, the City Council's authority to set aside or appropriate up to ten percent of real estate taxes to provide for and maintain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #44 | HB419 | Enrolled | This Act requires the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF) to provide new luggage to children in foster care to use for the transportation of their personal belongings when entering custody, moving from one placement... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #45 | HB423 | Enrolled | This Act permits a farm winery to apply for a license for use of a portion of the farm winery premises as a restaurant. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #46 | HB426 | Enrolled | This Act ensures that pregnant women in DOC custody, at Level IV or V, are able to meet with a doula or midwife to create a birth plan surrounding the birth of their child. Among other things, the birth plan must include a statement identifying a pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| #47 | HB431 | Enrolled | A major environmental concern is the spread of pathogens and invasive species across water bodies. The use of live bait in both non-tidal and tidal waters can inadvertently result in the transfer of invasive species and pathogens to new waters. Fresh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| #48 | SCR167 | Engrossed | This Act creates the Study Group to Review and Recommend Compensatory Payments for Certain Tax-Exempt Properties Owned by the State to review and evaluate § 8318 of Title 29 and make recommendations regarding the eligibility criteria that should be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-27 Passed in House by Voice Vote |
| #49 | HB446 | Introduced | This bill prevents a consumer reporting agency from furnishing a consumer report if the report is being obtained due to an inquiry regarding a residential mortgage loan. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-26 Not Worked in Committee |
| #50 | SJR10 | Passed | This Resolution provides the official revenue, refund, and unencumbered funds estimates for Fiscal Year 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-30 Signed by Governor |
